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Folk magic is the magic of the common people, usually without elaborate ritual or preparation. It is found in children's rhymes: "Rain, rain, go away ...", in casual acts such as throwing a pinch of spilled salt over the shoulder, and in gestures such as burying iron under the hearth of a new home. It is neither religion nor superstition, but a belief that the energy flowing through people and natural objects can cause positive change.

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Resources in This Category

• Gemstones and Crystals

  http://wicca.com/celtic/stones/stones0.htm
  Alphabetical list of stones used for magic and healing, with scientific description, variants, and associated magical properties.

• Issues in Ethnicity: The Demory Site Skull

  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/fennell/highland/harper/symbol.html
  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 archeology.

• Lucky Mojo: The Evil Eye

  http://www.luckymojo.com/evileye.html
  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.

• Symbolic Healing in Hungarian Ethnomedicine

  http://www.folklore.ee/rl/pubte/ee/usund/ingl/hoppal.html
  Describes rituals involved in curing illness believed to be caused by magic. Includes examples and references.

• The Arcane Archive

  http://www.arcane-archive.org/
  A cache of usenet and other text files pertaining to occult, mystical, and spiritual subjects.

• The Evil Eye

  http://azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/83_folder/83_articles/83_evil.html
  Article in the e-zine Azerbaijan International, by Jean Patterson and Arzu Aghayeva describing the belief and available protection.

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