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Merseburg Incantations - http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/merseburg.html
Two magic poems from pre-Christian Germany. |
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Charms Against Sprains - http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/spraincharm.html
Recorded in the Orkney and Shetland Islands during the nineteenth century. |
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Anglo-Saxon Charms - http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kjolly/unc.htm
Translated by Karen Louise Jolly in her 1996 book "Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context." |
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Hocus-pocus - http://www.quinion.com/words/weirdwords/ww-hoc1.htm
The story behind the weird word "Hocus-pocus". |
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Abracadabra - http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-abr1.htm
Proposing a Greek origin of the charm word. |