www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-abr1.htm
The Merseburger Spells
jolly germanic
Brief explanation
of the Cabbalistic inscription.
weird elf
www.lithuanian.net/mitai/charms.htm
proposing esoteric
Anglo-Saxon Charms
Translated by Karen
Louise Jolly in her 1996 book "Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context.
www
.pitt.edu/~dash/spraincharm.html
weird orkney
www.pitt.edu/~dash/merseburg.html
hocus spells
spells illnesses
Abracadabra
shetland lithuanian
www.quinion.com/words/weirdwords
/ww-hoc1.htm
The story behind the weird word "Hocus-pocus".
charms abracadabra
proposing orkney
www.pantheon.org/articles/a/abracadabra
.html
nineteenth weird
Hocus-pocus
shetland nineteenth
Abracadabra
occult hocus
"
esoteric inscription
Charms Against Sprains
charm spellcasting
shetland merseburger
saxon orkney
Charms against illnesses and evil spirits in English
translation.
saxon sprains
hocus shetland
Proposing a Greek origin of the charm word.
incantations occult
Merseburg Incantations
Two Germanic pre-Christian
spells found in a monastery in the German city of Merseburg.
orkney spells
Lithuanian Charms
charms shetland
incantations spells
Two magic poems from pre
-Christian Germany.
www.boudicca.de/merse-e.htm
charm germanic
www2.hawaii.edu/~kjolly/unc.htm
Recorded in the Orkney and
Shetland Islands during the nineteenth century.
orkney spellcasting
pocus spells
