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moon_custafer ([personal profile] moon_custafer) wrote2012-04-11 06:36 pm
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Powwows; or, The Long-Lost Friend

Hey, The Long-Lost Friend, the classic book of Pennsylvania Dutch folk magic, is online as a text. It's even weirder than I thought it wood be.

[identity profile] moon-custafer.livejournal.com 2012-04-12 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Similarly, there are multiple "prevent cattle from straying" spells. I can't haelp but notice there *aren't* any love spells, or even any "predict who you'll marry" spells; I'm guessing he considered those unlawful magic. As you said, though, the dog spell could be adapted pretty easily, and perhaps it was.

The anti-slander manoevre (hard to call it a spell when iirc it's wordless) really intrigued me.