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    <title>Merseburg Incantations</title>
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    <description>Two magic poems from pre-Christian Germany.</description>
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    <title>Hocus-pocus</title>
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    <description>The story behind the weird word &amp;quot;Hocus-pocus&amp;quot;.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:06:04 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title>Abracadabra</title>
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    <description>Proposing a Greek origin of the charm word.</description>
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    <title>Anglo-Saxon Charms</title>
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    <description>Translated by Karen Louise Jolly in her 1996 book &amp;quot;Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context.&amp;quot;</description>
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    <title>Charms Against Sprains</title>
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    <description>Recorded in the Orkney and Shetland Islands during the nineteenth century.</description>
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    <title>The Merseburger Spells</title>
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    <description>Two Germanic pre-Christian spells found in a monastery in  the German city of Merseburg.</description>
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    <title>Abracadabra</title>
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    <description>Brief explanation of the Cabbalistic inscription.</description>
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    <title>Lithuanian Charms</title>
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    <description>Charms against illnesses and evil spirits in English translation.</description>
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