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Websites in Magic

1. Arabic Folk Medicine and Magic: 20th Century Amulets from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
   History, photos, cures and traditions surrounding curative amulets of the Middle East.
   http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/amulets/home.html
   
   
2. Be Lucky Golf Superstitions
   A list of good-luck and bad-luck beliefs thought to affect a golfer's scores.
   http://www.golfbtb.com/superstitions.htm
   
   
3. Black Cats and the Black Cat Bone
   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 invisibility or force the return of an ex-lover.
   http://www.luckymojo.com/blackcat.html
   
   
4. Conference Abstract: Texts as Actions, Actions as Texts
   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 customs.
   http://www.ukans.edu/~slavic/bss99-plas.html
   
   
5. Dragon Spells
   Information on spell workings and how magic works.
   http://groups.msn.com/dragonspells
   
   
6. Evil Eyes by Alev Bir
   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.
   http://www.luckymojo.com/evileye.html
   
   
7. Gemstones and Crystals
   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
   
   
8. Issues in Ethnicity: The Demory Site Skull
   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.
   http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/fennell/highland/harper/symbol.html
   
   
9. Lost Secrets
   Information on various mystical secrets including Wicca, Druidism, channeling, ghost dancing, dream walking, spirit healing and shape shifting.
   http://www.armourtech.com/~lostsecrets
   
   
10. Lucky Mojo Spells Archive
    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-site search engine helps users locate information.
    http://www.luckymojo.com/spells.html
    
    
11. Magic Bibliographies by John-Gabriel Bodard
    Scholarly bibliographies of books on folk magic. Topics include: Witches or Magic Users in Greek Literature; Necromancy; Cursing; Anthropological and General Theories of Magic, Papyri Graecae Magicae; and Magic and Religion in Egyptian, Coptic, Jewish, Syrian, Anatolian, Hittite, and Mesopotamian Cultures.
    http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~lkpbodrd/magbib/.
    
    
12. Maneki Neko - The Beckoning Cat
    Legends of the Japanese lucky cat and why statues of it are used by shop-keepers to draw in customers.
    http://www.catanna.com/luckycat.htm
    
    
13. Pow-Wows or The Long-Lost Friend
    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, and an extensive bibliographic publishing history.
    http://www.luckymojo.com/powwows.html
    
    
14. Slavic Magick and Folk Medicine
    Outlines spells, divinations, remedies and superstitions of the Slavic culture.
    http://members.aol.com/hpsofsnert/slavrit.html
    
    
15. Symbolic Healing in Hungarian Ethnomedicine
    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
    
    
16. The Evil Eye
    Article in the e-zine Azerbaijan International, by Jean Patterson and Arzu Aghayeva describing the belief and available protection.
    http://AZER.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/83_folder/83_articles/83_evil.html
    
    
17. The alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic FAQ
    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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