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 ...
http://www.luckymojo.com/blackcat.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 cust...
http://www.ku.edu/~slavic/bss99-plas.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...
http://www.luckymojo.com/evileye.html
Alphabetical list of stones used for magic and healing, with scientific description, variants, and associated magical properties.
http://www.wicca.com/celtic/stones/stonea-e.htm
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 betwe...
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/fennell/highland/harper/symbol.html
Information on various mystical secrets including Wicca, Druidism, channeling, ghost dancing, dream walking, spirit healing and shape shifting.
http://www.armourtech.com/~lostsecrets
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...
http://www.luckymojo.com/spells.html
Scholarly bibliographies of books on folk magic. Topics include: Witches or Magic Users in Greek Literature; Necromancy; Cursing; Anthropological and General Theories of Magic, Pap...
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~lkpbodrd/magbib/.
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...
http://www.luckymojo.com/powwows.html
Describes rituals involved in curing illness believed to be caused by magic. Includes examples and references.
http://www.folklore.ee/rl/pubte/ee/usund/ingl/hoppal.html
Frequently asked questions from the APSHM usenet newsgroup containing introductory information on folk-magic and spell-casting.
http://www.luckymojo.com/faqs/apshmfaq.html
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