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[twincityhacker]

Yesterday I checked out a book on Anglo-Saxon magic. It's exactly the sort of book I'd been looking for on region/magic in the British Isles: a book saying what people during a ceriten period did, or thought-out conjectures that's based on archaeological sources and more-or-less first hand sources.

Though there is a occasional snigger when it comes to some of the charms. There's a few where the writer mentions how obvious it is that the enchanter swapped out verbal references to a pagan god to Jesus. I say pagen, since as long as the enchanter got the results they were looking for they'd borrow from anywhere so it would be hard to pin it down to just one pantheon: Roman, Greek, Hindu, Arabian, Jewish, ect.

It's also interesting from an lingustic perspective, because there's a very time-lapse photography feel to it with the enchantments running from Old High German to Middle English.

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[myrthrilmercury.livejournal.com]

Have you ever read Buckland's Book of Saxon Witchcraft Raymond Buckland was a Wiccan priest who broke off from the movement and formed his own branch of Saxon witchcraft using Saxon traditions. His deities are Woten and Freya. (The more appropriate counterpart to Woten would be "Frig," but frig is a dirty word in British slang.) Nothing I would personally practice, but it was an interesting read.