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Arabic Folk Medicine and Magic: 20th Century Amulets from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology: History, photos, cures and traditions surrounding curative amulets of the Middle East.- www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/amulets/home.html |
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Be Lucky Golf Superstitions: A list of good-luck and bad-luck beliefs thought to affect a golfer's scores.- www.golfbtb.com/superstitions.htm |
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Conference Abstract: Texts as Actions, Actions as Texts: Abstract of a paper by Pieter Plas of the University of Ghent examining ritual-symbolic actions undertaken to magically subdue or chase off wolves in Serbian and Croatian folk customs.- www.ukans.edu/~slavic/bss99-plas.html |
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Dragon Spells: Information on spell workings and how magic works.- groups.msn.com/dragonspells |
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Gemstones and Crystals: Alphabetical list of stones used for magic and healing, with scientific description, variants, and associated magical properties.- www.wicca.com/celtic/stones/stonea-e.htm |
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Issues in Ethnicity: The Demory Site Skull: Christopher Fennell, a University of Virginia anthropologist, describes a small X-marked clay skull, an article of malevolent conjuration buried beneath a Virginia farm house between 1780 and 1860, raising significant issues in ethnic studies, folk magic, anthropology, and historical archaeology.- etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/fennell/highland/harper/symbol.html |
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Lost Secrets: Information on various mystical secrets including Wicca, Druidism, channeling, ghost dancing, dream walking, spirit healing and shape shifting.- www.armourtech.com/~lostsecrets |
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Lucky Mojo Spells Archive: A very large collection of folk-magic spells from various cultures contributed by hundreds of usenet posters since 1995, sub-divided by spell type, not by originating tradition; on-site search engine helps users locate information.- www.luckymojo.com/spells.html |
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Maneki Neko - The Beckoning Cat: Legends of the Japanese lucky cat and why statues of it are used by shop-keepers to draw in customers.- www.catanna.com/luckycat.htm |
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Slavic Magick and Folk Medicine: Outlines spells, divinations, remedies and superstitions of the Slavic culture.- members.aol.com/hpsofsnert/slavrit.html |
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Symbolic Healing in Hungarian Ethnomedicine: Describes rituals involved in curing illness believed to be caused by magic. Includes examples and references.- www.folklore.ee/rl/pubte/ee/usund/ingl/hoppal.html |
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The Evil Eye: Article in the e-zine Azerbaijan International, by Jean Patterson and Arzu Aghayeva describing the belief and available protection.- azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/83_folder/83_articles/83_evil.html |
