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Showing posts with label Curses and Cures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Curses and Cures. Show all posts
26 November 2014

Cures and Curses: Dwarfs, Imagined Curses

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By  Kathryn A. Kopple A cultural history of dwarfs presents the challenge of a scarcity of information. The bibliography on dwarfs ...
25 November 2014

Medieval curses and some forms of protection against them by Lindsay Townsend

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Medieval people believed in magic, both good and bad. Spells and charms cast with evil intent were called curses and several have survive...
24 November 2014

Curses and Cures: Roman Spell Tablets

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Ancient Roman spirituality religion was an interesting blend of superstition and quid pro quo . The Roman relationship with the supernatura...
22 November 2014

Curses and Cures: Superstitions

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By Ian Lipke One of the most powerful superstitions among the indigenous people of Australia is the concept of ‘pointing the bone’, oft...
19 November 2014

Curses and Cures: The King’s Evil: Scrofula and the Gold Angels

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By   Piers Alexander Ty cried out as the point of the curette burst open the smaller boil, and the surgeon twisted it in the wound t...
18 November 2014

Curses and Cures: Where Christian and Pagan Beliefs Intersect

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By  Kim Rendfeld An eighth-century pilgrim on his way to pray before the relics of a saint might recite a charm to protect his ho...
17 November 2014

Curing the Hittite Way: Analogical Magic and Powerful Words

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Hittite Mother Goddess Figurine By Judith Starkston Like many ancient peoples, the Hittites of the Late Bronze Age (13thC BCE) in w...