Gah, thank you for the spelling correction. Forgot to copy-paste the umlaut-ed letter in. ^_^;
Oh, that does look interesting at a cursory glance, although the machine translation is coming out pretty garbled. Very curious about the details of these "amulets, protection letters, and defensive spells." The mention of these traditions persisting in places where the dominant church officially condemned superstition means these are the exact kind of "folk belief/practice" type solutions I was having the most trouble looking up on my own! Normally I rely on D. L. Ashliman's index of folklore as an entry point for my research into beliefs and narratives about the supernatural (at least when it comes to European traditions - he has entries for other parts of the world, but the website is very Europe-focused on the whole, so I'd rather seek out other sites or books as sources for African, Asian, Indigenous American, etc traditions), but anything which doesn't have an attached category of folk tale is hard to find on there.
EDIT: The DeepL translation is turning out much more readable than the initial browser-provided machine translation. I feel like I'm learning a lot! Thank you so much for this.
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Date: 2025-04-07 11:35 pm (UTC)Gah, thank you for the spelling correction. Forgot to copy-paste the umlaut-ed letter in. ^_^;
Oh, that does look interesting at a cursory glance, although the machine translation is coming out pretty garbled. Very curious about the details of these "amulets, protection letters, and defensive spells." The mention of these traditions persisting in places where the dominant church officially condemned superstition means these are the exact kind of "folk belief/practice" type solutions I was having the most trouble looking up on my own! Normally I rely on D. L. Ashliman's index of folklore as an entry point for my research into beliefs and narratives about the supernatural (at least when it comes to European traditions - he has entries for other parts of the world, but the website is very Europe-focused on the whole, so I'd rather seek out other sites or books as sources for African, Asian, Indigenous American, etc traditions), but anything which doesn't have an attached category of folk tale is hard to find on there.
EDIT: The DeepL translation is turning out much more readable than the initial browser-provided machine translation. I feel like I'm learning a lot! Thank you so much for this.