| 1. Arabic Folk Medicine and Magic: 20th Century Amulets from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology |
| History, photos, cures and traditions surrounding curative amulets of the Middle East. |
| http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/amulets/home.ht... |
| 2. Black Cats and the Black Cat Bone |
| Essay contrasts fear of black cats in European-American folklore with African-American belief that a black cat bone acquired and prepared with proper ceremony can grant the bearer invisibility or force the return of an ex-lover. |
| http://www.luckymojo.com/blackcat.html |
| 3. Conference Abstract: Texts as Actions, Actions as Texts |
| Abstract of a paper by Pieter Plas of the University of Ghent examining ritual-symbolic actions undertaken to magically subdue or chase off wolves in Serbian and Croatian folk customs. |
| http://www.ku.edu/~slavic/bss99-plas.html |
| 4. Dragon Spells |
| Information on spell workings and how magic works. |
| http://groups.msn.com/dragonspells |
| 5. Evil Eyes by Alev Bir |
| 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. |
| http://www.luckymojo.com/evileye.html |
| 6. Gemstones and Crystals |
| Alphabetical list of stones used for magic and healing, with scientific description, variants, and associated magical properties. |
| http://www.wicca.com/celtic/stones/stonea-e.h... |
| 7. Issues in Ethnicity: The Demory Site Skull |
| 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 archaeology. |
| http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/fennell/h... |
| 8. Lost Secrets |
| Information on various mystical secrets including Wicca, Druidism, channeling, ghost dancing, dream walking, spirit healing and shape shifting. |
| http://www.armourtech.com/~lostsecrets |
