Arabic Folk Medicine and Magic: 20th Century Amulets from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/amulets/home.html
History, photos, cures and traditions surrounding curative amulets of the Middle East. |
Dragon Spells - http://dragonspells999.multiply.com/
Information on spell workings and how magic works. |
Gemstones and Crystals - http://www.wicca.com/celtic/stones/stonea-e.htm
Alphabetical list of stones used for magic and healing, with scientific description, variants, and associated magical properties. |
Issues in Ethnicity: The Demory Site Skull - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/fennell/highland/harper/symbol.html
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 between 1780 and 1860, raising significant issues in ethnic studies, folk magic, anthropology, and historical archaeology. |
Lost Secrets - http://www.armourtech.com/~lostsecrets
Information on various mystical secrets including Wicca, Druidism, channeling, ghost dancing, dream walking, spirit healing and shape shifting. |
Lucky Mojo: The Evil Eye - http://www.luckymojo.com/evileye.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 China. |
Maneki Neko - The Beckoning Cat - http://www.catanna.com/luckycat.htm
Legends of the Japanese lucky cat and why statues of it are used by shop-keepers to draw in customers. |
Symbolic Healing in Hungarian Ethnomedicine - http://www.folklore.ee/rl/pubte/ee/usund/ingl/hoppal.html
Describes rituals involved in curing illness believed to be caused by magic. Includes examples and references. |
The Arcane Archive - http://www.arcane-archive.org/
A cache of usenet and other text files pertaining to occult, mystical, and spiritual subjects. |
The Evil Eye - http://azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/83_folder/83_articles/83_evil.html
Article in the e-zine Azerbaijan International, by Jean Patterson and Arzu Aghayeva describing the belief and available protection. |