The story behind the weird word "Hocus-pocus".
Translated by Karen Louise Jolly in her 1996 book "Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Char...
Two magic poems from pre-Christian Germany.
Recorded in the Orkney and Shetland Islands during the nineteenth century.
Brief explanation of the Cabbalistic inscription.
Charms against illnesses and evil spirits in English translation.
Proposing a Greek origin of the charm word.