Hi all!
I’ve not got a long or involved post to share today, just some links to articles of interest. The first two are about a recently excavated site in Maryland which turned up a football-sized “spirit bundle” with some very clear African magical paraphernalia inside of it. Finds like this are not exactly rare, but neither are they well documented at this point, so it’s fun to see American magic (or rather, African magic in America) getting some attention from the scientific press. As a bonus, the location of the burial was once apparently a crossroads! Neat!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081021120755.htm
http://www.archaeology.org/0005/newsbriefs/hoodoo.html
The last link I have for you today is about Brice House, an historical site (also in Maryland) in which a number of interesting magical and spiritual artifacts have been found. Known as a “hoodoo cache,” the dig revealed a bottle and several pierced coins buried in an “X” pattern near a bricked up doorway. It’s pretty cool stuff!
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/anth/aia/james_brice_house.htm
Special thanks to Rebecca on the Traditional Witchcraft Yahoo! Group for passing those links along!
Enjoy your weekend, and thanks for reading!
-Cory
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