Duchas.ie is the folklore archive and its got some good stuff on blessings, curses and piseogs (sort of translates to cures?).
Tag: resources
Journals, articles, books & texts, on folklore, mythology, occult, and related -to- general anthropology, history, archaeology.
Some good and/or interesting (or hokey) ‘examples’ included for most resources.
tryin to organize & share stuff that was floating around onenote.Journals (open access)
– Folklore, Occult, etc
- Culutural Analysis – folklore, popular culture, anthropology
– The Mythical Ghoul in Arabic Culture- Folklore – folklore, anthropology, archaeology
– The Making of a Bewitchment Narrative, Grecian Riddle Jokes- Incantatio – journal on charms, charmers, and charming
– Verbal Charms from a 17th Century Manuscript- Oral Tradition
– Jewish Folk Literature, Noises of Battle in Old English Poetry- Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
– Nani Fairtyales about the Cruel Bride, Energy as the Mediator between Natural and Supernatural Realms- International Journal of Intangible Heritage
- Studia Mythologica Slavica (many articles not English)
– Dragon and Hero, Fertility Rites in the Raining Cave, The Grateful Wolf and Venetic Horses in Strabo’s Geography- Folklorica – Slavic & Eastern European folklore association
– Ritual: The Role of Plant Characteristics in Slavic Folk Medicine, Animal Magic- Esoterica – The Journal of Esoteric Studies
– The Curious Case of Hermetic Graffiti in Valladolid Cathedral- The Esoteric Quarterly
- Mythological Studies Journal
- Luvah – Journal of the Creative Imagination
– A More Poetical Character Than Satan- Transpersonal Studies
– Shamanic Cosmology as an Evolutionary Neurocognitive Epistemology, Dreamscapes- Beyond Borderlands
– tumblr- Paranthropology
- GOLEM – Journal of Religion and Monsters
– The Religious Functions of Pokemon, Anti-Semitism and Vampires in British Popular Culture 1875-1914- Correspondences – Online Journal for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism
– Kriegsmann’s Philological Quest for Ancient Wisdom– History, Archaeology
- Adoranten – pre-historic rock art
- Chitrolekha – India art & design history
– Gomira Dance Mask- Silk Road
– Centaurs on the Silk Road: Hellenistic Textiles in Western China- Sino-Platonic – East Asian languages and civilizations
– Discursive Weaving Women in Chinese and Greek Traditions- MELA Notes – Middle East Librarians Association
- Didaskalia – Journal for Ancient Performance
- Ancient Narrative – Greek, Roman, Jewish novelistic traditions
– The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel- Akroterion – Greek, Roman
– The Deer Hunter: A Portrait of Aeneas- Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies
– Erotic and Separation Spells, The Ancients’ One-Horned Ass- Roman Legal Tradition – medieval civil law
– Between Slavery and Freedom- Phronimon – South African society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities
– Special Issue vol. 13 #2, Greek philosophy in dialogue with African+ philosophy- The Heroic Age – Early medieval Northwestern Europe
– Icelandic Sword in the Stone- Peregrinations – Medieval Art and Architecture
– Special Issue vol. 4 #1, Mappings- Tiresas – Medieval and Classical
– Sexuality in the Natural and Demonic Magic of the Middle Ages- Essays in Medieval Studies
– The Female Spell-caster in Middle English Romances, The Sweet Song of Satan- Hortulus – Medieval studies
– Courtliness & the Deployment of Sodomy in 12th-Century Histories of Britain, Monsters & Monstrosities issue, Magic & Witchcraft issue- Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU
- Medieval Archaeology
– Divided and Galleried Hall-Houses, The Hall of the Knights Templar at Temple Balsall- Medieval Feminist Forum
– multiculturalism issue; Gender, Skin Color and the Power of Place … Romance of Moriaen, Writing Novels About Medieval Women for Modern Readers, Amazons & Guerilleres- Quidditas – medieval and renaissance
- Medieval Warfare
- The Viking Society – ridiculous amount of articles from 1895-2011
Journals (limited free/sub/institution access)
- Al-Masaq – Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean
– Piracy as Statecraft: The Policies of Taifa of Denia, free issue- Mythical Creatures of Europe – article + map
- Folklore – limited free access
– Volume 122 #3, On the Ambiguity of Elves- Digital Philology – a journal of medieval cultures
– Saracens & Race in Roman de la Rose Iconography- Pomegranate – International Journal for Pagan Studies
- Transcultural Psychiatry
- European Journal of English Studies
– Myths East of Venice issue, Esotericism issueBooks, Texts, Images etc.
– Folklore, Occult etc.
- Magical Gem Database – Greek/Egyptian gems & talismans [x] [x]
- Biblioteca Aracana – (mostly) Greek pagan history, rituals, poetry etc.
– Greater Tool Consecration, The Yew-Demon- Curse Tablets from Roman Britain – [x]
- The Gnostic Society Library
– The Corpus Hermeticum, Hymn of the Robe of Glory- Grimoar – vast occult text library
– Grimoires, Greek & Roman Necromancy, Queer Theology, Ancient Christian Magic- Internet Sacred Text Archive – religion, occult, folklore, etc. ancient texts
- Verse and Transmutation – A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry
– History
- The Internet Classics Archive – mainly Greco-Roman, some Persian & Chinese translated texts
- Bodleian Oriental Manuscript Collection – [x] [x] [x]
- Virtual Magic Bowl Archive – Jewish-Aramaic incantation bowl text and images [x] [x]
- Vindolanda Tablets – images and translations of tablets from 1st & 2nd c. [x]
- Corsair – online catalog of the Piedmont Morgan library (manuscripts) [x] [x]
- Beinecke rare book & manuscripts
– Wagstaff miscellany, al-Qur’ān–1813- LUNA – tonnes from Byzantine manuscripts to Arabic cartography
- Maps on the web – Oxford Library [x] [x] [x]
- Bodleian Library manuscripts – photographs of 11th-17th c. manuscripts
– Treatises on Heraldry, The Worcester Fragments (polyphonic music), 12 c. misc medical and herbal texts- Early Manuscripts at Oxford U – very high quality photographs
– (view through bottom left) Military texts by Athenaeus Mechanicus 16th c. [x] [x], MS Douce 195 Roman de la Rose [x] [x]- Trinity College digital manuscript library
– Mathematica Medica, 15th c.- eTOME – primary sources about Celtic peoples
Websites, Blogs
– Folklore, Occult etc.
- Demonthings – Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project
- Invocatio – (mostly) western esotericism
- Heterodoxology – history, esotericism, science
– Religion in the Age of Cyborgs- The Recipes Project – food, magic, science, medicine
– The Medieval Invisible Man (invisibility recipes)- Morbid Anatomy – museum/library in Brooklyn
– History
- Islamic Philosophy Online – tonnes of texts, articles, links, utilities, this belongs in every section; mostly English
- Medicina Antiqua – Graeco-Roman medicine
- History of the Ancient World – news and resources
– The So-called Galatae, Gauls, Celts in Early Hellenistic Balkans; Maidens, Matrons Magicians: Women & Personal Ritual Power in Late Antique Egypt- Διοτίμα – Women & Gender in Antiquity
- Bodleian Library Exhibitions Online
– Khusraw & Shirin, Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-Place of Cultures- Medievalists
– folk studies, witchcraft, mythology, science tags- Atlas Obscura
– Bats and Vampiric Lore of Pére Lachaise Cemetery