#popular magic

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Continuing with posting about what I'm reading so I feel pressure to actually finish things...

We’re moving on from The Vikings to Popular Magic: Cunning-Folk in English History, by Owen Davies. Annoyingly difficult topic to find an affordable book on, by the way. Cunning folk are typically only a footnote in books on the history of witchcraft and witch trials, so this was a nice Christmas gift.

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The Toadmen, Masters of Equine Magic | JSTOR Daily

A strange initiation ritual involving a toad was required for members of a secret caste of nineteenth-century horse mystics.

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Owen Davies, Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History (London and New York: Hambledon Contiuum, 2007). Paperback edition. https://www.ebay.com/itm/254638113639

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Gábor Klaniczay and Éva Pócs, eds., Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). https://www.ebay.com/itm/254448659765

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María Tausiet, Urban Magic in Early Modern Spain: Abracadabra Omnipotens, Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Paperback edition. https://www.ebay.com/itm/254621191156

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Jonathan Barry, Owen Davies and Cornelie Usborne, eds., Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present: Essays in Honour of Willem de Blécourt, Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Paperback edition. https://www.ebay.com/itm/254645994394

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Jonathan Roper, ed., Charms, Charmers and Charming: International Research on Verbal Magic (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). https://www.ebay.com/itm/254497070002

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Andrew Sneddon, Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). https://www.ebay.com/itm/254489066474