COMMENT
THE PERILS OF FOLKLORE
Seemingly innocuous folk cures and old wives’ tales can have a darker side
ALEKS KROTOSKI
Aleks is a social psychologist, broadcaster and journalist. She presents The Digital Human.
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve cracked my knuckles. I don’t want to do it, but it’s compulsive – the release of the pressure pent up in my fingers. And so, despite years of resolutions, promises to myself and systems of reward and punishment, I continue. I know that eventually I will end up with terrible arthritis.