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Dr C. M. Bromstick🧹, Dublin
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Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin

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Early Medieval historian: Ireland & Britain, kingship, landscapes, mentalities | knitting, video games, bread | ND | disabled | she/her | #BlackLivesMatter

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    1. Adrian Bott‏ @Cavalorn 28 Mar 2019

      Reading through the latest Folklore Thursday contributions I'm once again filled with a strange sense of loss b/c we have to interpret some practices as warding off 'evil spirits' and it's a shame we can't get more particular than that. I wish I could know the *specifics* of it

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    2. Adrian Bott‏ @Cavalorn 28 Mar 2019

      by which I mean: people don't take protective action against generic 'evil spirits', they take action against 'Gaspith the eye-swallower who dwelleth in the attic space and all of his nine-legged kin' or similar

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    3. Adrian Bott‏ @Cavalorn 28 Mar 2019

      We do not & cannot have a window into all the personal, particular night-clambering terrors that people felt compelled to ward their homes against. We don't know their names, their attributes or their habits. But I so wish we did.

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    4. Adrian Bott‏ @Cavalorn 28 Mar 2019

      I think what I'm rather clumsily trying to say is that if you're going to do something as decisive & labour-intensive as nailing a boot inside your chimney, for example, then you're doing it out of a fear of something SPECIFIC happening to you.

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    5. Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin‏ @AdmiralHip 28 Mar 2019
      Replying to @Cavalorn

      I recall reading a book that said the amount of lore and magic and charms that have been lost are a monumental amount...for instance she mentioned we know little of what medieval sailors would have used but that they probably did have them, and I think about that a lot.

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    6.  🚩Shepherd 🏴‏ @NeolithicSheep 28 Mar 2019
      Replying to @AdmiralHip @Cavalorn

      Yeah I'd love to know the actual Origins of the ones sailors still use. Eg every US navy ship still has a coin put under its mast when it's built. SUPPOSEDLY it goes back to ancient Greece, and the coin pays the fare across the Styx for sailors killed if the ship sinks.

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      Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin‏ @AdmiralHip 28 Mar 2019
      Replying to @NeolithicSheep @Cavalorn

      Hmmm interesting. So much folklore often gets explanations like that after the fact but their true origins are possibly much stranger, or perhaps much more banal.

      5:12 AM - 28 Mar 2019
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        1.  🚩Shepherd 🏴‏ @NeolithicSheep 28 Mar 2019
          Replying to @AdmiralHip @Cavalorn

          Yeah I'd honestly love to know when a coin under the mast actually became a Thing!

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