This wonderful old charm was just one of the traditional spells and folk-sayings related by Andrew Mercer at The Nameless Arte, a conference on Traditional Witchcraft in Britain, in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, yesterday.
I photographed this slide from Andrew's talk and took lots of other pictures and notes and I'll be blogging more about the conference in the future, but I couldn't resist just posting this one today as a teazer! The traditional charm is also one of those included in a book by Andrew Mercer called The Wicked Shall Decay - Charms, Spells and Incantations of Rural Britain, which is due out in a few months. I can't wait to get a copy!
Other speakers at The Nameless Arte were Gemma Gary, Richard Ward, Michael Clarke, Martin Duffy and Andrew Collins.
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Links and previous related posts
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2017/07/review-spells-from-wise-womans-cottage.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2017/05/pagan-eye-dolls-from-poppets-pins-power.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/09/pagan-eye-wicker-man-on-fire-under-full.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2017/01/pagan-eye-hobby-horse-at-pagan-wassail.html
4 comments:
I look forward to reading the rest of your posts! It was a great day and I really enjoyed spending time with you
I really enjoyed spending time with you too! Lots of fun browsing the charity shops during the lunch break - and a perfect dog's bottom for scrying into :)
Sorry does the above say "Dog's Bottom for Scrying into"???
Yes indeed :) It will be the title of a talk I'm going to give some time :)
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