I just read about a charm used in early modern Scandinavia that required the would-be magician to go to a crossroad on a Thursday night and shout, “Odin come, Odin come, Odin come and give me money.”
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I have mentioned this before but a challenge when writing fantasy magic based on historic beliefs is that historic magic was often used for the sort of reasons that were useful to peasants and not the reasons that are useful for fantasy protagonists.
This author keeps referring to a medieval Scandinavian “fart charm” without telling me what it is.
There is an alternate universe where JRRT shot Hitler (who as Marcel R. Bülles mentions was a runner and didn’t fight).
Rampant “don’t tread on me”-ism has really hollowed out US civil society and Americans’ sense of themselves as part of a collective.