Word: witchcraft
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...symbol of Catholic veneration is not a prudent act. Because legend says that the Virgin was a redhead, Isabelle’s hair—a “halo of copper”—earns her the villager’s suspicion that she practices witchcraft...
...you’—believed the inscription capable of directing the future (and especially the object of the owner’s lust).... Let me close with another runic charm, perhaps more appropriate to Halloween, this time one for protection: “[I] practice witchcraft against the spirit, against the walking [spirit], against the riding, against the running, against the sitting, against the sinking, against the travelling, against the flying. Everything shall loose its vitality and die.” FM’s note: combining the two will allow you to make the most of that...
...Years between the 1706 conviction of Grace Sherwood for witchcraft and her pardon last week by Virginia Governor Tim Kaine...
...Folklore and Mythology 106, “Witchcraft and Charm Magic...
...Though not in time for Halloween, the spring semester’s “Witchcraft and Charm Magic”—from the Folklore and Mythology department—may be right up the alley of those in the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association. Undergraduates hoping to learn some of the charm magic described in the course guide might even be able to try it while studying for exams. This new course taught by department chair and Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore Stephen A. Mitchell will also explore the history of neo-paganism...