Does the fact that you can’t find Platform 9 ¾ at the train station bother you? Does the phrase The Well at the World’s End make you hope that there just must be something wrong with your road atlas? Do you check out rabbit holes in the forest . . . just to make sure? […]
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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 […]
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. […]
Last week, exploring the chance to see some medieval art in Washington DC this winter, I wrote about Anonymous 4 and the Folger Consort at the National Cathedral, and rounded it out with a mention of the Anglo-Saxon Staffordshire Hoard at the National Geographic’s Explorer’s Hall. You can find that post here. But there’s more, […]
