Clare Dwiggins, School Days (folk beliefs in two cartoons from the 1920s)

Clare Dwiggins, School Days, “In the Clinic” (1922). Boys discuss various wart cures. In Bill Blackbeard and Martin Williams, eds., The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1977), 138.

Clare Dwiggins, School Days, “The Conductor” (1923). A housewife sends a dog outdoors during a thunderstorm because “his tail draws lightnin’.” In Bill Blackbeard and Martin Williams, eds., The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1977), 138.