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Home / Society / Folklore / Magic / Charms and Spells
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- Abracadabra - Proposing a Greek origin of the charm word.
www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-abr1.htm
- Abracadabra - Brief explanation of the Cabbalistic inscription.
www.pantheon.org/articles/a/abracadabra.html
- Anglo-Saxon Charms - Translated by Karen Louise Jolly in her 1996 book "Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context."
www2.hawaii.edu/~kjolly/unc.htm
- Charms Against Sprains - Recorded in the Orkney and Shetland Islands during the nineteenth century.
www.pitt.edu/~dash/spraincharm.html
- Hocus-pocus - The story behind the weird word "Hocus-pocus".
www.quinion.com/words/weirdwords/ww-hoc1.htm
- Merseburg Incantations - Two magic poems from pre-Christian Germany.
www.pitt.edu/~dash/merseburg.html
- The Merseburger Spells - Two Germanic pre-Christian spells found in a monastery in the German city of Merseburg.
www.boudicca.de/merse-e.htm
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