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Building Magic - Ritual and Re-enchantment in Post-Medieval Structures (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Building Magic - Ritual and Re-enchantment in Post-Medieval Structures (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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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.
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