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- From: thorfinn@wixer.cactus.org (Thorfinn Einarsson)
- Subject: Re: Documented Evidence
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.235527.18435@wixer.cactus.org>
- Organization: Real/Time Communications
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 23:55:27 GMT
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- Greetings to the Seekers!
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- >SL500000@brownvm.brown.edu (Robert Mathiesen) writes:
- >Some clearly were: such traditions of witchcraft have been
- >studied by 20th-century folklorists in the Ozarks and among the
- >Pennsylvania Germans (Hexerei).
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- In Edred Thorsson's *Northern Magic*, chapter 9 deals with "Operant
- Hexology" and Appendix C is "On the Construction of Hex Signs".
- In his bibliography, he cites:
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- Fogel, Edwin M. *Beliefs and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans*.
- Philadelphia: American Germanica Press, 1915.
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- Hohman, John George. *Der lange verborgene Freund*. Reading: PA.
- (Numerous reprints and translations)
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- Lewis, Arthur H. *Hex*. New York: Trident, 1969.
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- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thorfinn Einarsson =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
- \/ Science: I'll believe it when I see it. \/
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