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• Exorcism by Rabbis: Talmud Sages and Their Magic

  http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~barilm/exorcism.html
  An article by Meir Bar-Ilan centering on the Jewish sages of the Mishnah and Talmud who dealt with magic in the religious context of their times; demonstrates survivals of this ancient phenomenon in contemporary Israeli and Palestinian religious folklore.

• Fetichism in West Africa

  http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/fiwa/
  By Robert Hamill Nassau (1904), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.

• The Significance of Baptism in Estonian Folk Belief

  http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol5/ylorist1.htm
  An article describing Estonian folk-religious customs surrounding baptism, baby naming, and the celebration of name-days.

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