Overview
- Explores the invention and reinvention of traditions regarding building magic
- Redresses popular interpretations of concealed objects, discovered within the fabric of post-medieval buildings
- Examines the variety of objects that have been found concealed, including old shoes, mummified cats and pierced hearts
Part of the book series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic (PHSWM)
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Ceri Houlbrook is a Folklore and History Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Her primary research interests are the material culture of ritual practices and popular beliefs, and contemporary folklore. She has previously published on the modern-day customs of coin-trees and love-locks.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Building Magic
Book Subtitle: Ritual and Re-enchantment in Post-Medieval Structures
Authors: Owen Davies, Ceri Houlbrook
Series Title: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76765-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76764-8Published: 11 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76767-9Published: 11 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-76765-5Published: 10 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2731-5630
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 179
Topics: Social History, Cultural History, History of Britain and Ireland