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This book redresses popular interpretations of concealed objects, enigmatically discovered within the fabric of post-medieval buildings. A wide variety of objects have been found up chimneybreasts, bricked up in walls, and concealed within recesses: old shoes, mummified cats, horse skulls, pierced hearts, to name only some. The most common approach to these finds is to apply a one-size-fits-all analysis and label them survivals and apotropaic (evil-averting) devices. This book reconsiders such interpretations, exploring the invention and reinvention of traditions regarding building magic. The title Building Magic therefore refers to more than practices that alter the fabric of buildings, but also to processes of building magic into our interpretations of the enigmatic material evidence and into our engagements with the buildings we inhabit and frequent.

World history --- History of civilization --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- History of Eastern Europe --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- geschiedenis --- sociale geschiedenis --- Europese geschiedenis --- Charms --- Ritual --- Protection magic --- Buildings --- Charmes --- Rituel --- Protection magique --- Constructions --- History. --- Protection --- Histoire.

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War das Individuum im alten Ägypten Dämonen, Krankheiten oder anderen Bedrohungen schutzlos ausgeliefert oder konnte sich der Mensch verschiedener Praktiken bedienen, um diese fernzuhalten? Christoffer Theis untersucht schriftliche und archäologische Hinterlassenschaften, die den magischen Schutz verschiedener Räume im alten Ägypten nachweisen. Er legt eine ausführliche Analyse und einen Kommentar der vorliegenden Zeugnisse für den Schutz des Landes Ägypten, der Stadt, des Tempels, des Hauses, des Schlafgemachs wie des Grabes vor und geht auf Hinterlassenschaften aus anderen kontemporären Kulturbereichen wie Mesopotamien, Altanatolien und dem Raum Syrien-Palästina ein. Au�erdem vergleicht er diese in einem weiteren Schritt mit griechischem, koptischem, arabischem und hebräischem Material. Die derzeit vorhandenen Quellen bezeugen deutlich inter- sowie transkulturelle Homogenitäten und Identifikationsmerkmale durch die lokalen und temporalen Räume.

291.33 --- Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- Magic --- Magic, Egyptian. --- Magic, Ancient. --- Protection magic. --- Magie égyptienne --- Égypte --- 291.33 Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- Magi. --- Magie. --- Raum. --- Religion. --- Rites and ceremonies --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Schutz. --- Egypt --- Egypt. --- Ägypten --- Magie égyptienne.

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Belief in magic and particularly the power of witchcraft was once a deep and enduring presence in popular culture. “Diving into Brian Hoggard’s Magical House Protection is a remarkable experience… [It] provides an immersive and fascinating read.”—Fortean Times People created and concealed many objects to protect themselves from harmful magic. Detailed are the principal forms of magical house protection in Britain and beyond from the fourteenth century to the present day. Witch-bottles, dried cats, horse skulls, written charms, protection marks and concealed shoes were all used widely as methods of repelling, diverting or trapping negative energies. Many of these practices and symbols can be found around the globe, demonstrating the universal nature of efforts by people to protect themselves from witchcraft. From the introduction: The most popular locations to conceal objects within buildings are usually at portals such as the hearth, the threshold and also voids or dead spaces. This suggests that people believed it was possible for dark forces to travel through the landscape and attack them in their homes. Whether these forces were emanations from a witch in the form of a spell, a witch’s familiar pestering their property, an actual witch flying in spirit or a combination of all of those is difficult to tell. Additional sources of danger could be ghosts, fairies and demons. People went to great lengths to ensure their homes and property were protected, highlighting the fact that these beliefs and fears were visceral and, as far as they were concerned, literally terrifying.

Protection magic. --- Architecture, Domestic --- Magic. --- Witchcraft. --- Dwellings --- Housing --- Archaeology. --- Counter-Witchcraft. --- ancient beliefs. --- anthropology of religion. --- anthropology. --- archaeology. --- curses. --- dried cats. --- historical. --- history. --- horse skulls. --- magic studies. --- magic. --- magical house protection. --- magical practices. --- protection marks. --- protection. --- religion. --- social science. --- supernatural. --- witchcraft. --- witches.