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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Dragon Spells -
Information on spell workings and how magic works.
http://groups.msn.com/dragonspells 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.ku.edu/~slavic/bss99-plas.html Slavic Magick and Folk Medicine -
Outlines spells, divinations, remedies and superstitions of the Slavic culture.
http://members.aol.com/hpsofsnert/slavrit.html 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
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