medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Jim Bugslag <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Most of the medieval badges to have survived, however, have been found in
rivers, near bridges ... It would be too coincidental that they were all
accidents, and the conclusion must be that they were thrown in
deliberately....
they were also frequently *bent*, for some reason, some kind of mutilation
which was part of whatever JuJu was going on, apparently.
>In Ralph Merrifield's The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic, he has a whole
chapter on the practice of enclosing old shoes, dead chickens and other odd
things in cavities in the chimneys of English houses of the apparent age of
your presbytery.
and treats of such practices going back to Roman times...
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