RINGS ON OUR FINGERS

A winnwing- but not too skeletal elimination- of the lore, history and meanings of finger rings,- the superstitions, the uses, the significance. The part rings have played in customs,-civilian, military, personal, religious; belief in them as charms, as talismans for healing, for guardianship and death defying purposes; the lore of engagement and wedding rings; types of rings and how they are made, etc. An interesting collection of facts- and fancy- that brings source material together and adds color to an odd corner of social history.