Ultimate Grimoire and Spellbook

enter the holes and eat away all the flesh, leaving the bones which after a few weeks are removed. To bear healthy and strong ch ...

The blood of a bullfinch is put into a new vessel with scraped elder-bark, and then laid on a cloth with which the eyes are boun ...

When this straw is in the brook Go away into the water!" STRAW MAGIC Straw was anciently a symbol of emptiness, unfruitfulness, ...

INCANTATION AGAINST SWELLING AND SKIN ERUPTIONS There is a very curious principle involved in curing certain disorders or afflic ...

later Slavonian-Christian addition to the old Shamanic spell. In the Accadian-Chaldæan formulas these spirits are seven; here th ...

I pray thee grant me Of the water of this lake, To aid me, To sprinkle my bees. I will speak a word, And God will give me help, ...

annals speak of the Volkv of Finland, who are represented as Shamans." Niya Predania i Raikazi ("Traditions and Popular Tales of ...

from the bite. I laid myself down to sleep; then the mighty angel said: 'Saul, Paul, stand up and receive this writing'; and I f ...

"Great Fire, my defender and protector, son of the celestial fire, equal of the sun who cleanses the earth of foulness, deliver ...

It may here be remarked that the pronunciation of all these words is the same as in German, with the following additions. Č = te ...

"Anro, ánro in obles, Te e pera in obles: Ava čavo sástávestes! Devlá, devlá, tut akharel!" The egg, the egg is round, And the b ...

"Full moon, high sea, Great man thou shalt be; Red dawning, cloudy sky, Bloody death shalt thou die. "Pray to the Moon when she ...

name of the one whom you love, and every day, morning and evening, say over it 'As this root grows And as this blossom blows, Ma ...

something else is the matter, and to ascertain what it is other charms and ceremonies are had recourse to. An universal remedy f ...

pudding. Then the "overlooked," or evil-seen child is held over the tub while the following rhyme is chanted: "Páñi, páñi lunjár ...

"False (evil) eyes see thee, Like this water May they perish Sickness depart From thy head, From thy breast, From thy belly, Fro ...

FOR CONVULSIVE WEEPING When the child is subject to convulsive weeping or spasms, and loses its sleep, the mother takes a straw ...

Go thou into the earth, May I see thee never more Bring knives, knives, Give (i.e., put) into the earth." Then the knife is stuc ...

Remain, remain thou here I say, I say to thee!" OTHER MAGICS AND MYSTERIES EGG MAGIC Egg-lore is inexhaustible. The eggs of Maun ...

'Folklore of the North-East of Scotland,' gives us some curious particulars concerning chickens, and the best methods of securin ...