A couple of weeks ago I mentioned Christian magic, Christian charms and spells, common enough in the Middle Ages but pretty much extinct now. Find that post here. And I left the subject wondering what happened to this custom. Why did it disappear? The charms weren’t particularly pagan, so it can’t be that everybody suddenly […]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Imagine you woke up in a world where you could, with a simple phrase, make a glass partition protecting your evil cousin from a giant python disappear. And shortly after, you discover that there’s a whole community of people just like you who are desperately trying to get in touch with you because you’re their […]
Would your priest cast a spell for you? Maybe you need a fever or a headache or dropsy healed, or you need the crops to grow, or you have an elf chasing you around, or you need the bees to settle and stop swarming. So you ask your priest or preacher for a little help. […]
