Folkloric American Witchcraft and the Multicultural Experience by Via Hedera

Author:Via Hedera
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2020-12-19T00:00:00+00:00

Ecstatic and Transfigurative

-To Leave the Body:

Flying ointment (N, NE, SE), witch-butter (S)

Rhymes and incantations (G)

-To Shapeshift:

Flying ointment, “witch’s butter”, oil or unguent (G)

Witch-bone (S)

Incantations (G)

By wearing a mask or skin in the image of an animal (G)

Erotic

-To Draw Love:

Poppets (G)

Apples (N, NE, SE, CA)

Herbs (G): liverwort (S, SE), Adam and Eve root (S, SE), Trillium (S, NW), Ten-finger plant (S) grape leaf (NE), heartleaf (S), lad’s love (S, NE, SE, MW), amaranth seed (S), hemp (NE, SE, S), Clovers (G)

Lodestones fed iron filings to draw a lover (SW, S)

Dove hearts (S, NW, G)

-To Bind Love:

Dollies (G), socks (S, MW, NE),

Knots - cloth or string knotted for magical purposes likely had several sources when it emerged in America; from English traditional magic in which 9 times knotted cloth was a known love charm, or from the Southwest where Hispanic-Pueblo witches were said to knot cloth to curse enemies (Simmons), or to bind love. Wool, especially red wool, is supposedly the best used to bind charms and tricks (G)

Talismans involving doves, roses, banners (TA)

Jumping the broom at weddings (AA)

Blood magic of any kind (G); Ozark folklore reported by Randolph and found in the Hand/Brown Collections recounts that an errant lover could be reclaimed through blood-writing magic on ironwood.

-To Banish Love:

Foot-track powder (S, SE)

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