{"date":"May 16","id":"05-16","intro":["Chessboards on which, of their own accord, black pieces played against white; chariots that swiftly turned hither and yon without a driver; pots in which a coward’s meat would not cook—all these are woven into bewitching stories."],"minutes":24,"readings":[{"author":"Ernest Renan","end":155,"start":145,"volume":32,"work":"The Poetry of the Celtic Races"}],"slug":"may-16","status":"proofread","title":"Favorite Superstitions of Celtic Imagination","url":"/harvard-classics/may-16/","words":4786}