Physical evidence for ritual acts, sorcery and witchcraft in Christian Britain

a feeling for magic

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21st century
Language: English

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"Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Christian Britain investigates the physical evidence for magic in medieval and modern Britain, including ritual marks and designs, concealed objects, amulets hung about the person and home, and the equipment of folk magicians. The subject has been largely neglected by mainstream historians and archaeologists, and the contributors to this volume represent the current leading experts in each part of it, and often the pioneers of study of it. Between them, they show how ample and convincing the evidence is, and how it forces us to reconsider the history of ritual and religion in Britain since the Middle Ages and admit to the existence of a whole dimension of activity which has hardly been considered before. It should therefore have importance to those interested in British history in general across this large span of time"-- Provided by publisher.

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ancient religions, animism, and ritual, Ritual magic and grimoires, and Witchcraft and folk magic.

Ritual magic and grimoires
Controlled discovery queries from harvard and wellcome matched “ritual magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subtitle, “Amulets” in the description, “Magic” in the description, and 2 additional metadata match(es).
- “ritual magic”· via Harvard LibraryCloud
- “ritual magic”· via Wellcome Collection
- “Magic”· in subtitle
- “Amulets”· in description
- “Magic”· in description
- “Magic”· in subject
Witchcraft and folk magic
Controlled discovery queries from wellcome matched “witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the title, “Witchcraft” in the description, “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).
- “witchcraft”· via Wellcome Collection
- “Witchcraft”· in title
- “Witchcraft”· in description
- “Witchcraft”· in subject
- “Witchcraft”· in edition title
Ancient religions, animism, and ritual
Retained metadata contains “Rites and ceremonies” in the subject metadata.
- “Rites and ceremonies”· in subject

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Edition	Date	Publisher	Language	ISBN	Access	Links
a feeling for magic Wellcome Collection bibliographic record xiii, 261 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm.	2016	Palgrave Macmillan	English	9781137444813 1137444819	Catalog record	Wellcome Collection (opens in a new tab) Harvard LibraryCloud (opens in a new tab)