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apotropaic<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Apotropaic magic<\/b> (from Greek apotrepein<\/i> “to ward off” from apo-<\/i> “away” and trepein<\/i> “to turn”) is a type of magic<\/a>\u00a0intended to turn away harm or evil influences, as in deflecting misfortune or averting the evil eye<\/a>. [Wikipedia<\/strong><\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the Artifact<\/a><\/em> column of Archaeology<\/em><\/strong> (November \/ December, 2016):<\/p>\n

Found during recent renovation work [at\u00a0St. John\u2019s College<\/strong> at the University of Cambridge], behind the wainscoting between a window and a fireplace, the well-worn shoe was put there almost three centuries ago as an apotropaic item intended to ward off evil and bad luck. Popular magic of this kind was a relatively widespread phenomenon in England between the sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, with shoes being the most common items secreted, explains [archaeologist Richard] Newman. While the discovery of concealed items is by no means uncommon, he says \u201cit\u2019s always exciting because practical magic represents a silent tradition\u2014there is no documentary record of the practice of concealment\u2014and archaeology allows us to explore an otherwise little-known facet of the social lives of those in the past.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

apotropaic: Apotropaic magic (from Greek apotrepein “to ward off” from apo- “away” and trepein “to turn”) is a type of magic\u00a0intended to turn away harm or evil influences, as in deflecting misfortune or averting the evil eye. [Wikipedia] From the Artifact column of Archaeology (November \/ December, 2016): Found during \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6187,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions\/6187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}