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Gypsy sorcery and fortune telling, illustrated by numerous incantations, specimens of medical magic, anecdotes, and tales (1891)

Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 83

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is called Lilith, and is further identified withHerodias and her twelve daughters as personifications of different kinds offever. This is extremely interesting, as it casts some light on a questionwhich has greatly puzzled all writers on witchcraft as to how or why Herodiaswas so generally… … CHAPTER IV. SOUTH SLAVONIAN AND OTHER GYPSY WITCH-LORE. THE WORDS FOR A WITCH VILAS AND THE SPIRITS OF EARTH AND AIR WITCHES, EGG-SHELLS, AND EGG-LORE EGG PROVERBS OVA DE CRUCIBUS. HERE is current in the wholeof the Southern Slavonian pro-vinces a vast mass of legendsand other lore relating…

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