Charms and Spells Magic Folklore

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• - The story behind the weird word "Hocus-pocus".
  
• - Brief explanation of the Cabbalistic inscription.
  
• - Two magic poems from pre-Christian Germany.
  
• - Two Germanic pre-Christian spells found in a monastery in the German city of Merseburg.
  
• - Recorded in the Orkney and Shetland Islands during the nineteenth century.
  
• - Translated by Karen Louise Jolly in her 1996 book "Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context."
  
• - Charms against illnesses and evil spirits in English translation.