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	Spells and Spell-Casting URL: http://www.luckymojo.com/spells.html ODP description: A comprehensive resource of spells. Contains articles on both the lighter and darker side of magick use. Page title: FREE MAGIC SPELLS: Love Spells, Money Spells, Talismans, Amulets, Charms, Witchcraft, Hoodoo, Rootwork, Occult Secrets Page description: Hundreds of free magic spells for love, money, and protection; black magic, white magic, candle magic, hoodoo rootwork, lucky charms, high magick, folk magick, conjuration, and witchcraft.
	Evil Eyes by Alev Bir URL: http://www.luckymojo.com/evileye.html ODP description: An essay on the blue glass "Nazar Boncugu" or "Eye Bead" worn for protection in Turkey, Cyprus, the Central Asian Turkic Republics, and among the Uigur Turks of China. Page title: The Evil Eye
	Gemstones and Crystals URL: http://www.wicca.com/celtic/stones/stonea-e.htm ODP description: Alphabetical list of stones used for magic and healing, with scientific description, variants, and associated magical properties. Page title: Gemstones and Crystals for Magick and Healing A - E Page description: Gemstones and Crystals used by Witches with Wicca, Witchcraft
	Pow-Wows or The Long-Lost Friend URL: http://www.luckymojo.com/powwows.html ODP description: John George Hohman's 1820 German-American magical receipt-book: its continuing influence on Appalachian and African-American herb and root doctors, examples of spells from the text, and an extensive bibliographic publishing history. Page title: "Pow-Wows": The European Influence on Hoodoo
	Maneki Neko - The Beckoning Cat URL: http://www.catanna.com/luckycat.htm ODP description: Legends of the Japanese lucky cat and why statues of it are used by shop-keepers to draw in customers. Page title: Maneki Neko - the lucky beckoning cat Page description: Get a free lucky beckoning cat graphic for your website
	Black Cats and the Black Cat Bone URL: http://www.luckymojo.com/blackcat.html ODP description: Essay contrasts fear of black cats in European-American folklore with African-American belief that a black cat bone acquired and prepared with proper ceremony can grant the bearer invisibility or force the return of an ex-lover. Page title: Black Cats
	Slavic Magick and Folk Medicine URL: http://members.aol.com/hpsofsnert/slavrit.html ODP description: Outlines spells, divinations, remedies and superstitions of the Slavic culture. Page title: Slavic Magick
	Arabic Folk Medicine and Magic: 20th Century Amulets from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology URL: http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/amulets/home.html ODP description: History, photos, cures and traditions surrounding curative amulets of the Middle East. Page title: Arabic Folk Medicine and Magic:20th Century Amulets from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
	Symbolic Healing in Hungarian Ethnomedicine URL: http://www.folklore.ee/rl/pubte/ee/usund/ingl/hoppal.html ODP description: Describes rituals involved in curing illness believed to be caused by magic. Includes examples and references. Page title: SYMBOLIC HEALING IN HUNGARIAN ETHNOMEDICINE
	Lost Secrets URL: http://www.armourtech.com/~lostsecrets ODP description: Information on various mystical secrets including Wicca, Druidism, channeling, ghost dancing, dream walking, spirit healing and shape shifting. Page title: Lost secrets
	The alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic FAQ URL: http://www.luckymojo.com/faqs/apshmfaq.html ODP description: Frequently asked questions from the APSHM usenet newsgroup containing introductory information on folk-magic and spell-casting. Page title: alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic FAQ (Moved Permanently!)
	Issues in Ethnicity: The Demory Site Skull URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/fennell/highland/harper/symbol.html ODP description: Christopher Fennell, a University of Virginia anthropologist, describes a small X-marked clay skull, an article of malevolent conjuration buried beneath a Virginia farm house between 1780 and 1860, raising significant issues in ethnic studies, folk magic, anthropology, and historical archaeology. Page title: Issues in Ethnicity, Folk Religion and Symbolism Page description: An edited excerpt of article entitled Conjuring Boundaries: Inferring past identities from Religious Artifacts, by Christopher Fennell, including topics on anthropology, archaeology, historical archaeology, and folk religion
	Dragon Spells URL: http://groups.msn.com/dragonspells ODP description: Information on spell workings and how magic works. Page description: Love Spells
	The Evil Eye URL: http://azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/83_folder/83_articles/83_evil.html ODP description: Article in the e-zine Azerbaijan International, by Jean Patterson and Arzu Aghayeva describing the belief and available protection. Page title: 8.3 The Evil Eye - Staving Off Harm - With a Visit to the Open Market - Jean Patterson and Arzu Aghayeva Page description: Childhood of Famous Azeris and their advice for the 21st century.
	Conference Abstract: Texts as Actions, Actions as Texts URL: http://www.ku.edu/~slavic/bss99-plas.html ODP description: Abstract of a paper by Pieter Plas of the University of Ghent examining ritual-symbolic actions undertaken to magically subdue or chase off wolves in Serbian and Croatian folk customs. Page title: Conference abstract: Pieter Plas