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Lucky Mojo Spells Archive - http://www.luckymojo.com/spells.html
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. |
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Maneki Neko - The Beckoning Cat - http://www.catanna.com/luckycat.htm
Legends of the Japanese lucky cat and why statues of it are used by shop-keepers to draw in customers. |
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Evil Eyes by Alev Bir - http://www.luckymojo.com/evileye.html
An essay on the blue glass "Nazar Boncugu" or "Eye Bead" worn for protection in Turkey, Cyprus, the Central Asian Turkic Republics, and among the Uigur Turks of China. |
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Black Cats and the Black Cat Bone - http://www.luckymojo.com/blackcat.html
Essay contrasts fear of black cats in European-American folklore with African-American belief that a black cat bone acquired and prepared with proper ceremony can grant the bearer invisibility or force the return of an ex-lover. |
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Pow-Wows or The Long-Lost Friend - http://www.luckymojo.com/powwows.html
John George Hohman's 1820 German-American magical receipt-book: its continuing influence on Appalachian and African-American herb and root doctors, examples of spells from the text, and an extensive bibliographic publishing history. |
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Issues in Ethnicity: The Demory Site Skull - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/fennell/highland/harper/symbol.html
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. |
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Symbolic Healing in Hungarian Ethnomedicine - http://www.folklore.ee/rl/pubte/ee/usund/ingl/hoppal.html
Describes rituals involved in curing illness believed to be caused by magic. Includes examples and references. |
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Lost Secrets - http://www.armourtech.com/~lostsecrets
Information on various mystical secrets including Wicca, Druidism, channeling, ghost dancing, dream walking, spirit healing and shape shifting. |
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Conference Abstract: Texts as Actions, Actions as Texts - http://www.ku.edu/~slavic/bss99-plas.html
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. |
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The Evil Eye - http://azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/83_folder/83_articles/83_evil.html
Article in the e-zine Azerbaijan International, by Jean Patterson and Arzu Aghayeva describing the belief and available protection. |