# EveryJaadu

> Every magic in the world, from every culture. A free guide to 376 entries and 87 rites on folk and ritual magic, witchcraft, divination, charms, spirit work, esoteric magic, myth and stage illusion, filed by region, country and place, by kind (tradition, rite, charm, oracle, substance, being, figure, text, performance, belief), by purpose (protect, heal, foresee, luck, love, harm, cleanse, commune, transform, bind, power, wonder), by who does it, by belief world, by occasion and by how alive it is (living, revived, fading, historical, legendary, performance), with rites drawn as rings and steps, a calendar, a world map and a glossary. Published by ClearTrust.

Stance: neutral on whether any practice works; living religions respected; closed knowledge not published; harms named; no medical advice; not a how-to; stage magic honest. Each entry gives: what it is, where it comes from, how it is done (outline), tools and materials, what it is for, who does it, peoples and places, what people believe, when it is done, how scholars and sceptics see it, cautions and what is closed, compare and confuse, law and persecution, today, a short FAQ and source links. Pages are derived from Wikipedia and Wikidata with AI assistance and may contain mistakes; cite the page URL.

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## Rites
- [Nimbu-mirchi and nazar utarna](https://everyjaadu.com/r/nimbu-mirchi-nazar-utarna): The lemon and green chillies on a thread over a shop door, and the wave of chillies and salt that takes off the evil eye.
- [The kajal dot on a child](https://everyjaadu.com/r/kajal-dot): A small black mark of kohl on the cheek, brow or foot, said to turn the evil eye away from a baby.
- [Consecrating a yantra](https://everyjaadu.com/r/yantra-consecration): The rite by which a drawn or engraved yantra is believed to be given life and made the seat of a deity.
- [Theyyam](https://everyjaadu.com/r/theyyam): A north Kerala ritual in which a dancer, painted and crowned, is believed to become a deity before the village.
- [Bhuta Kola](https://everyjaadu.com/r/bhuta-kola): The night-long Tulu spirit worship of coastal Karnataka, in which a dancer is believed to carry a guardian spirit.
- [Kolam at the threshold](https://everyjaadu.com/r/kolam-threshold): The rice-flour pattern drawn at the door each dawn, said to welcome prosperity and to feed small creatures.
- [Navagraha shanti](https://everyjaadu.com/r/navagraha-shanti): A pacifying rite to the nine planetary powers of Hindu astrology, done when a horoscope is read as difficult.
- [Sak Yant blessing](https://everyjaadu.com/r/sak-yant-blessing): A sacred tattoo with protective script, given by a monk or lay master with vows to keep, in Thailand and Cambodia.
- [Spirit house offerings](https://everyjaadu.com/r/spirit-house-offerings): The small shrine at the edge of a Thai plot where food, flowers and drink are set out for the spirit of the place.
- [Canang sari and the daily offering](https://everyjaadu.com/r/canang-sari-offerings): The small palm-leaf tray of flowers and incense that Balinese Hindus set out each day for gods and for powers of the earth.
- [Tawur Kesanga](https://everyjaadu.com/r/tawur-kesanga): The great offering to the powers of the earth on the day before Nyepi, when Bali is cleared before a day of silence.
- [Mandi bunga, the Malay flower bath](https://everyjaadu.com/r/mandi-bunga): A cleansing bath in water with flowers and limes, taken to remove ill luck, with a bomoh or at home.
- [Albularyo healing](https://everyjaadu.com/r/albularyo-healing): The visit to a Filipino folk healer, who reads wax or alum in water and prays over an ill person.
- [Writing and burning a fu talisman](https://everyjaadu.com/r/fu-talisman): The Taoist talisman written in red or black ink on paper, then pasted, worn, or burned to send its message.
- [Joss paper and the Hungry Ghost offering](https://everyjaadu.com/r/joss-paper-hungry-ghosts): The burning of paper money and goods for the dead, and the street offerings of the seventh lunar month.
- [Kau cim and jiaobei](https://everyjaadu.com/r/kau-cim-jiaobei): Shaking numbered sticks from a cylinder in a temple, and tossing two crescent blocks to ask a question.
- [The I Ching and the yarrow stalks](https://everyjaadu.com/r/i-ching-yarrow): The older way of consulting the Book of Changes: sorting fifty yarrow stalks to build a hexagram of six lines.
- [Feng shui placement](https://everyjaadu.com/r/feng-shui-placement): The arrangement of a house, a grave or an office so that the flow of qi is believed to gather and not scatter.
- [Setsubun bean-throwing](https://everyjaadu.com/r/setsubun-bean-throwing): On the eve of spring, roasted beans are thrown at a masked ogre while the household calls for good luck.
- [Harai, the Shinto rite of purification](https://everyjaadu.com/r/shinto-harai): The wand, water and salt rites of Shinto that clear tsumi, impurity, from people and places.
- [Omamori and ofuda renewal](https://everyjaadu.com/r/omamori-ofuda-renewal): The yearly return of last year's charms to the shrine, and the taking of new ones for the home and the body.
- [Omikuji fortune slips](https://everyjaadu.com/r/omikuji): A paper fortune drawn at a shrine or temple, kept if it is good and tied to a branch if it is not.
- [Gut, the Korean shaman rite](https://everyjaadu.com/r/korean-gut): The day-long ritual of a mudang, who calls gods and ancestors with music, dance, offerings and costume.
- [Worship at an ovoo](https://everyjaadu.com/r/ovoo-worship): Circling a cairn of stones and wood at a pass or hilltop three times and adding a stone for a safe road.
- [The Tuvan shaman and the drum](https://everyjaadu.com/r/tuvan-shaman-drum-rite): A kham, a Tuvan shaman, calls helping spirits with a drum and juniper smoke in a rite for a family or a place.
- [The Kazakh baksy and the kobyz](https://everyjaadu.com/r/kazakh-baksy-kobyz): The baksy sings to a horsehair fiddle until trance, and speaks with ancestral spirits for a person in trouble.
- [Esfand, the wild rue smoke](https://everyjaadu.com/r/esfand-wild-rue): Seeds of wild rue crackle on hot coals and the smoke is carried around a person, said to turn the evil eye away.
- [Chaharshanbe Suri fire-jumping](https://everyjaadu.com/r/chaharshanbe-suri): On the last Tuesday evening of the Persian year people leap over small fires and ask the flame to take their sickliness.
- [The nazar boncuğu, the blue bead](https://everyjaadu.com/r/nazar-boncugu): The blue glass eye hung on babies, doors and cars, believed to take on the harm of an envious look.
- [Ruqyah recitation](https://everyjaadu.com/r/ruqyah-recitation): A Muslim practice of reciting Quranic verses and prayers over a person said to be touched by the evil eye, magic or a jinn.
- [The zar possession ceremony](https://everyjaadu.com/r/zar-ceremony): A women-led healing ceremony of drum, incense and dance for people said to be troubled by a zar spirit.
- [The Gnawa lila](https://everyjaadu.com/r/gnawa-lila): The all-night Gnawa healing ceremony of music, incense and colour, in honour of the spirits called mluk.
- [Henna night](https://everyjaadu.com/r/henna-night): The women's evening before a wedding when the bride's hands and feet are painted with henna and blessed.
- [Bkhour, the Moroccan fumigation](https://everyjaadu.com/r/bkhour-fumigation): Incense burned on charcoal at the threshold, after a birth and before a guest, to scent and, it is said, to clear.
- [Kapparot](https://everyjaadu.com/r/kapparot): The custom before Yom Kippur of passing a fowl or money round the head as a symbolic substitute.
- [The red thread and Rachel's tomb](https://everyjaadu.com/r/red-thread-rachel): A red wool thread, wound around the tomb of Rachel and tied on the left wrist, worn against the evil eye.
- [Writing a Jewish amulet (kame'a)](https://everyjaadu.com/r/kabbalistic-amulet): A written amulet of psalms and names on parchment, made by a scribe for a mother, a newborn or a house.
- [Heka, Egyptian ritual power](https://everyjaadu.com/r/egyptian-heka): The Egyptian art of heka, in which spoken spells, acts and amulets work together, shown in the medical and magical papyri.
- [The Book of the Dead](https://everyjaadu.com/r/book-of-the-dead): The scroll of spells made for a dead person to carry them safely to the afterlife, and the Weighing of the Heart.
- [Amazigh protective tattoos](https://everyjaadu.com/r/amazigh-tattoos): The dots, lines and crosses once tattooed on the faces and hands of Amazigh women, said to protect and to mark belonging.
- [Ifa divination](https://everyjaadu.com/r/ifa-divination): The Yoruba system in which a babalawo reads a sacred verse from a cast of palm nuts or an opele chain.
- [Egungun masquerade](https://everyjaadu.com/r/egungun-masquerade): Yoruba festival in which cloth-covered dancers embody the ancestors and speak to the living.
- [Sangoma calling and bone-throwing](https://everyjaadu.com/r/sangoma-calling-and-bones): The Zulu and Xhosa path by which a person called by the ancestors trains as a sangoma, who also reads thrown bones.
- [Libation to the ancestors](https://everyjaadu.com/r/ghana-libation): Pouring drink to the ancestors and gods, opening ceremonies from funerals to state occasions in Ghana.
- [Nkisi nkondi power figures](https://everyjaadu.com/r/nkisi-nkondi): Kongo carved figures, charged by a nganga, that people held to enforce oaths and settle disputes.
- [Mami Wata devotion](https://everyjaadu.com/r/mami-wata-devotion): Shrine rites for the water spirit Mami Wata, shown as a woman with a snake, who is said to bring wealth and ask for fidelity.
- [Bori possession](https://everyjaadu.com/r/bori-possession): Hausa spirit-possession cult, with named spirits, music and a priesthood, that survives beside Islam.
- [Famadihana, the turning of the bones](https://everyjaadu.com/r/famadihana): Malagasy ceremony in which family tombs are opened, the dead are rewrapped in fresh shrouds, and the family dances with them.
- [Debtera amulet scrolls](https://everyjaadu.com/r/debtera-amulet-scrolls): Ethiopian Orthodox lay specialists who write protective prayers on parchment scrolls for clients.
- [Rainmaking and the Rain Queen](https://everyjaadu.com/r/modjadji-rainmaking): The Balobedu Rain Queen, Modjadji, is held to bring rain, and her reign is tied to the cycad forests of Limpopo.
- [Vodun ceremony in Benin](https://everyjaadu.com/r/vodun-benin-ceremony): Offerings and dance for the vodun in southern Benin, where Vodun is an official religion with its own national holiday.
- [Midsummer and St John's Eve herbs and fires](https://everyjaadu.com/r/midsummer-herbs-and-fires): Bonfires, gathered herbs and flower crowns at the summer solstice, long tied to protection and love.
- [Walpurgis Night and May Day fires](https://everyjaadu.com/r/walpurgis-and-may-fires): Bonfires on the last night of April to drive away witches and welcome spring, and the May Day customs that follow.
- [Samhain and Halloween divination games](https://everyjaadu.com/r/samhain-halloween-divination): Games of foretelling played on the last night of October, with apples, nuts and a ring in a cake.
- [First-footing at Hogmanay](https://everyjaadu.com/r/hogmanay-first-footing): The Scottish and northern English custom that the first person to cross the threshold after midnight shapes the luck of the year.
- [Witch bottle](https://everyjaadu.com/r/witch-bottle): A sealed jar or bottle, found hidden in English houses, said to turn a witch's harm back on its sender.
- [Knocking on wood and horseshoe customs](https://everyjaadu.com/r/knocking-on-wood-and-horseshoes): Small habits of luck: touching wood after a hopeful remark, and nailing a horseshoe over a door.
- [The Sator square](https://everyjaadu.com/r/sator-square): A Latin word square that reads the same in every direction, used as an amulet in medieval and early modern Europe.
- [Icelandic galdrastafir](https://everyjaadu.com/r/galdrastafir): Magical staves from Icelandic grimoires, drawn or carved for protection, luck and legal success.
- [Malocchio removal with oil and water](https://everyjaadu.com/r/malocchio-removal): The Italian rite of dropping oil into water to find and lift the evil eye, often passed on at Christmas.
- [Matiasma and ftou ftou](https://everyjaadu.com/r/matiasma-ftou-ftou): The Greek evil eye, and the little mock spit, ftou ftou, said to turn aside a compliment that might harm.
- [Benzedeira blessing](https://everyjaadu.com/r/benzedeira-blessing): Portuguese blessing by a benzedeira, a woman who prays over a person with a sprig of rue or a cross.
- [Zagovor, the spoken charm](https://everyjaadu.com/r/russian-zagovor): Russian and Slavic spoken charms, recited over water, thread or a person, and often joined to Orthodox prayer.
- [Pennsylvania German powwow](https://everyjaadu.com/r/powwow-braucherei): Braucherei, the Pennsylvania German folk healing of prayers, signs and written charms. It is unrelated to Native American powwows.
- [Appalachian charm for stopping blood](https://everyjaadu.com/r/appalachian-blood-charm): A Scripture verse said by a charmer to stop bleeding, one of the best recorded folk charms of the American South.
- [Hoodoo mojo bag](https://everyjaadu.com/r/hoodoo-mojo-bag): A small cloth bag carried for luck or protection, central to African American conjure and hoodoo.
- [Hoodoo floor washing](https://everyjaadu.com/r/hoodoo-floor-washing): The Southern custom of washing floors and doorsteps with prepared water, said to clear a home of bad influence.
- [Casting a Wiccan circle](https://everyjaadu.com/r/wiccan-casting-circle): The opening act of a Wiccan ritual, in which a space is marked and the four quarters are called.
- [Spiritualist seance](https://everyjaadu.com/r/spiritualist-seance): A sitting at which a medium is said to bring messages from the dead, a practice that began in New York State in 1848.
- [The Ouija board](https://everyjaadu.com/r/ouija-board): A lettered board with a planchette, patented in 1890 in America, used to ask questions of spirits.
- [A tarot reading](https://everyjaadu.com/r/tarot-reading): A reading in which a seated reader lays cards and interprets them for a question, from Italian card games to modern spreads.
- [Smudging, and who may do it](https://everyjaadu.com/r/smudging-ceremony): Burning sage, sweetgrass or cedar to cleanse a person or place. Many Indigenous nations hold this as sacred, and non-Indigenous use is debated.
- [Navajo sandpainting](https://everyjaadu.com/r/navajo-sandpainting): Diné ceremonial paintings of coloured sand made for a healing way. The sacred ones are destroyed after use, and public art versions are made differently.
- [Limpia with an egg](https://everyjaadu.com/r/mexican-limpia-egg): A cleansing in which a healer passes an egg, herbs or both over a person, said to take away fright, envy or the evil eye.
- [Day of the Dead ofrenda](https://everyjaadu.com/r/day-of-the-dead-ofrenda): The altar built at home for the dead on 1 and 2 November, with marigolds, bread, photographs and the foods they liked.
- [Santeria initiation (kariocha)](https://everyjaadu.com/r/santeria-kariocha): The week-long Lucumi initiation by which a person is crowned as a priest of an orisha. The details are closed to outsiders.
- [Candomblé ebo offering](https://everyjaadu.com/r/candomble-ebo): An offering made in a Candomblé house of worship to feed the orixas and ask for a change in fortune.
- [Haitian Vodou service](https://everyjaadu.com/r/haitian-vodou-service): A ceremony in a Vodou temple, the ounfo, with drums, song, offerings, and the arrival of the lwa in a devotee.
- [Andean despacho and pago a la Pachamama](https://everyjaadu.com/r/andean-despacho): A bundle of leaves, grains and sweets prepared for the mountains and Mother Earth, and burned or buried by a specialist.
- [A curanderismo healing session](https://everyjaadu.com/r/curanderismo-session): A visit to a curandero or curandera, who talks, prays and cleanses, and may suggest herbs or a limpia.
- [Ayahuasca ceremony](https://everyjaadu.com/r/ayahuasca-ceremony): A night-time gathering in which a brew of the ayahuasca vine is drunk with chanting, practised by Amazonian peoples and now by visitors. It carries real risks.
- [Obeah in Jamaica](https://everyjaadu.com/r/obeah-jamaica): Caribbean folk magic with African roots, banned under colonial law and still a crime or a stigma in some places.
- [Karakia and lifting tapu](https://everyjaadu.com/r/maori-karakia-tapu): The Maori chant that opens and closes a task, and the rites that make a tapu place or person safe to approach again.
- [Hooponopono](https://everyjaadu.com/r/hooponopono): The Hawaiian practice of setting things right within a family, led by an elder, through talk, prayer, and forgiveness.
- [Aboriginal smoking ceremony](https://everyjaadu.com/r/aboriginal-smoking-ceremony): A public welcome in which native leaves are burned and the smoke is believed to cleanse a place and its visitors. Other ceremonies are closed.
- [Pacific kava ceremony](https://everyjaadu.com/r/pacific-kava-ceremony): A formal drinking of kava, a mildly sedating root drink, which opens chiefly meetings and welcomes guests.
- [Sorcery accusation in Papua New Guinea](https://everyjaadu.com/r/png-sorcery-accusations): The belief that a death or illness is caused by sorcery, and the violent accusations of sanguma or witchcraft that follow. A harm, not a rite to copy.

## Places of magic
- [Kamakhya Temple](https://everyjaadu.com/place/kamakhya): A hilltop temple of the goddess in Guwahati, counted among the great Shakta pilgrimage sites and a centre of Tantric worship.
- [Tarapith](https://everyjaadu.com/place/tarapith): A village in Birbhum known for its temple to the goddess Tara and for the cremation ground beside it, linked to the saint Bamakhepa.
- [Varanasi](https://everyjaadu.com/place/varanasi): The river city where Hindus bring the dead to be cremated, and a place long tied to ascetics, Tantric lore and the Aghori.
- [Mehandipur Balaji Temple](https://everyjaadu.com/place/mehandipur-balaji): A Hanuman temple in Dausa district known across north India as a place where people seek relief from what they believe to be possession.
- [Kodungallur Bhagavathy Temple](https://everyjaadu.com/place/kodungallur): A Kerala temple of the goddess Bhadrakali, known for the Bharani festival with its oracles, red cloth and loud devotional abuse of the goddess.
- [Mayong](https://everyjaadu.com/place/mayong): A village near Guwahati that Assamese popular tradition calls a land of black magic, and which now keeps a small museum on the subject.
- [Ujjain](https://everyjaadu.com/place/ujjain): A city on the Shipra, a seat of astronomers and of Bhairava worship, where one temple's deity is offered liquor.
- [Kataragama](https://everyjaadu.com/place/kataragama): A pilgrimage town in southern Sri Lanka shared by Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and the Vedda, known for vows, fire walking and the god Skanda.
- [Sehwan Sharif](https://everyjaadu.com/place/sehwan-sharif): A Sindh town built around the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, where trance, drumming and healing are part of the daily scene.
- [Kathmandu Valley](https://everyjaadu.com/place/kathmandu): A valley where Hindu and Buddhist Tantra overlap, home to the living goddess Kumari and to temples of ritual protection.
- [Nechung Monastery in exile](https://everyjaadu.com/place/dharamshala-nechung): The home in exile of the state oracle of Tibet, who is consulted by the Dalai Lama and speaks in trance.
- [Lhasa](https://everyjaadu.com/place/lhasa): The old Tibetan capital, with the Jokhang Temple at its centre and a long tradition of ritual protection and oracle consultation.
- [Wat Bang Phra](https://everyjaadu.com/place/wat-bang-phra): A riverside Thai temple known for its yearly gathering of people with Sak Yant tattoos, who enter trance before the teacher's image.
- [Tha Prachan amulet market](https://everyjaadu.com/place/tha-prachan): A riverside Bangkok lane lined with stalls of Buddhist amulets, where collectors, monks and believers trade and examine them under magnifying lenses.
- [Chiang Mai](https://everyjaadu.com/place/chiang-mai): A northern Thai city where Buddhist temples sit beside spirit shrines, and where ancestor and guardian spirits are still given offerings.
- [Mount Popa](https://everyjaadu.com/place/mount-popa): An extinct volcano in central Myanmar, home of the thirty-seven nats, the spirits who are honoured beside Buddhism.
- [Ubud](https://everyjaadu.com/place/ubud): A Balinese cultural town where traditional healers called balian work beside temples, and where offerings go out every morning.
- [Parangtritis](https://everyjaadu.com/place/parangtritis): A beach south of Yogyakarta where Javanese tradition places the court of the Queen of the Southern Sea, Ratu Kidul.
- [Quiapo](https://everyjaadu.com/place/quiapo): A Manila district around the Black Nazarene church where amulets, candles, oils and charms are sold on the pavement.
- [Siquijor](https://everyjaadu.com/place/siquijor): A small Visayan island that Filipinos have long called the island of fire, a name tied to stories of healers and sorcerers.
- [Phu Tay Ho](https://everyjaadu.com/place/hanoi-phu-tay-ho): A temple on West Lake where followers of the Mother Goddess religion, Dao Mau, bring offerings and hold mediumship rites.
- [Hue and the Hon Chen shrine](https://everyjaadu.com/place/hue-hon-chen): The old imperial capital of Vietnam, with a riverside shrine to the goddess Thien Y A Na where mediumship rites are held.
- [Wong Tai Sin Temple](https://everyjaadu.com/place/wong-tai-sin): A Taoist temple in Kowloon where visitors shake out bamboo fortune sticks and have the answer read by a diviner.
- [Longshan Temple](https://everyjaadu.com/place/longshan-taipei): A temple in Taipei that unites Buddhist, Taoist and folk deities, and where worshippers throw crescent blocks and draw fortune slips.
- [Dongyue Temple](https://everyjaadu.com/place/beijing-dongyue): A Taoist temple of the god of Mount Tai, with judgment halls that show the courts of the underworld.
- [Mount Tai](https://everyjaadu.com/place/mount-tai): The first of China's Five Great Mountains, where emperors performed rites to Heaven and where pilgrims still climb to a goddess's shrine.
- [Seimei Shrine](https://everyjaadu.com/place/kyoto-seimei): A small shrine in Kyoto to Abe no Seimei, the Heian court astrologer and onmyoji who became Japan's best known figure of ritual magic.
- [Mount Osore](https://everyjaadu.com/place/mount-osore): A volcanic mountain at the northern tip of Honshu where blind women mediums, the itako, call the spirits of the dead each July.
- [Izumo-taisha](https://everyjaadu.com/place/izumo-taisha): The great shrine of Okuninushi, where Japanese tradition says the gods gather each tenth lunar month to arrange marriages and fates.
- [Inwangsan and Guksadang](https://everyjaadu.com/place/seoul-inwangsan): A granite hill in Seoul where mudang, the shamans of Korea, hold gut rites at rock shrines and the Guksadang.
- [Ulaanbaatar and the Mongolian ovoo](https://everyjaadu.com/place/ulaanbaatar): The capital of Mongolia, where Buddhist monasteries sit beside a revived Mongol shamanism and where mountain passes are marked by ovoo cairns.
- [Kyzyl and Tuvan shamanism](https://everyjaadu.com/place/kyzyl-tuva): The capital of the Tuva republic in southern Siberia, where shamanic societies were refounded after decades of ban.
- [Olkhon Island and Shaman Rock](https://everyjaadu.com/place/olkhon): The largest island of Lake Baikal, where Buryat people hold Cape Burkhan, called Shaman Rock, to be among the most sacred places in Asia.
- [Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi](https://everyjaadu.com/place/turkestan-yasawi): A great fourteenth century shrine in southern Kazakhstan to a Sufi poet, visited for blessings and as a lesser pilgrimage by Central Asian Muslims.
- [Grand Bazaar and the evil eye](https://everyjaadu.com/place/istanbul-grand-bazaar): A covered market where glass nazar beads in blue are sold in every size, and where the habit of warding off the eye is on show.
- [Safed](https://everyjaadu.com/place/safed): A hill town in Galilee where, in the sixteenth century, scholars of Kabbalah gathered and made it one of the centres of Jewish mysticism.
- [Harran](https://everyjaadu.com/place/harran): An old city of southern Turkey where a star-worshipping community, the Sabians of Harran, lived into the Islamic period and kept the study of planetary magic.
- [Babylon](https://everyjaadu.com/place/babylon): The ruined city on the Euphrates whose priests kept the records of the sky and the incantations against demons that shaped later magic.
- [Khan el-Khalili and the zar](https://everyjaadu.com/place/cairo-khan-el-khalili): A medieval market in Cairo where amulets and incense are sold, and where the zar healing rite is still held for those who believe they are visited by spirits.
- [Karnak and Luxor](https://everyjaadu.com/place/karnak-luxor): The temple complex at Thebes where Egyptian priests performed daily rites, and where heka, the force behind spells, was part of the working of the state.
- [Siwa Oasis](https://everyjaadu.com/place/siwa): A remote oasis in the western desert, home to the Oracle of Amun that Alexander the Great consulted in 331 BCE.
- [Fez](https://everyjaadu.com/place/fez): A medieval Moroccan city of saints' shrines, schools and a medina where charms, written talismans and amulet sellers are part of daily life.
- [Jemaa el-Fna](https://everyjaadu.com/place/marrakech-jemaa-el-fna): The great square of Marrakech where storytellers, musicians, snake charmers and herbalists have drawn crowds for centuries.
- [Essaouira and the Gnawa](https://everyjaadu.com/place/essaouira-gnawa): A walled Atlantic port in Morocco where the Gnawa, descendants of people brought from sub-Saharan Africa, hold their night-long healing rite and a yearly music festival.
- [Timbuktu](https://everyjaadu.com/place/timbuktu): A Saharan trading city and seat of learning whose family libraries hold manuscripts on law, astronomy and the use of protective texts.
- [Ile-Ife](https://everyjaadu.com/place/ile-ife): The Yoruba city said to be where the world began, and the home of the religion of the orisha and of the oracle of Ifa.
- [Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove](https://everyjaadu.com/place/osogbo): A forest on the Osun river kept for the goddess of fresh water, where annual rites draw followers from Nigeria and the diaspora.
- [Abomey](https://everyjaadu.com/place/abomey): The royal seat of the Dahomey kingdom, whose palaces hold bas-reliefs and bocio figures, and whose kings were bound up in the Vodun religion.
- [Ouidah](https://everyjaadu.com/place/ouidah): A coastal town of Benin that is the main centre of Vodun, once a port of the slave trade and now the site of the Vodun Festival.
- [Akodessawa Fetish Market](https://everyjaadu.com/place/akodessawa-lome): The largest market of Vodun ritual materials in West Africa, a small area of Lome where heads of animals and dried plants are displayed for practitioners.
- [Faraday Market](https://everyjaadu.com/place/faraday-market): A muti market near Faraday station where traditional healers, called inyanga and sangoma, and their customers buy herbs, roots and animal materials.
- [Warwick Junction](https://everyjaadu.com/place/warwick-junction): A transport hub in Durban where the Victoria Street Market and Brook Street stalls sell herbs and roots to Zulu healers and families.
- [Pemba Island](https://everyjaadu.com/place/pemba): A Zanzibar island with a reputation across East Africa as a home of healers and sorcerers, a view shaped as much by neighbours' fear as by local practice.
- [Antananarivo and the famadihana](https://everyjaadu.com/place/antananarivo-famadihana): The highland capital of Madagascar, around which families open tombs of ancestors and rewrap their remains in the famadihana.
- [Great Zimbabwe](https://everyjaadu.com/place/great-zimbabwe): The stone city of the Shona kingdoms, where spirit mediums of the ancestors still speak, and where the Zimbabwe birds were carved.
- [Delphi](https://everyjaadu.com/place/delphi): The Greek sanctuary of Apollo where, for about a thousand years, a priestess called the Pythia answered questions from cities and kings.
- [Dodona](https://everyjaadu.com/place/dodona): A remote Greek oracle of Zeus, older than Delphi, where answers were read from a sacred oak.
- [Didyma](https://everyjaadu.com/place/didyma): The sanctuary of Apollo on the Aegean coast of Turkey, with a vast temple and an oracle that rivalled Delphi.
- [Cumae](https://everyjaadu.com/place/cumae): The first Greek colony in Italy, home of the Sibyl and a long cave that Roman writers linked to her prophecies.
- [Benevento](https://everyjaadu.com/place/benevento): A town in southern Italy where legend placed the meetings of witches under a walnut tree, giving the Strega liqueur its name.
- [Triora](https://everyjaadu.com/place/triora): A hill town in Liguria where trials for witchcraft began in 1587, and which now recalls the accused with a museum.
- [Salem](https://everyjaadu.com/place/salem): The Massachusetts town where, in 1692 and 1693, twenty people were executed or died after witchcraft accusations, and which now both remembers them and sells witch tourism.
- [Pendle Hill and Lancaster](https://everyjaadu.com/place/pendle): The Lancashire hill where the 1612 trials began, and Lancaster Castle where ten people were condemned.
- [North Berwick](https://everyjaadu.com/place/north-berwick): The Scottish seaside town where, in the early 1590s, over a hundred people were accused of plotting with the devil to raise storms against King James VI.
- [Edinburgh's Witches' Well](https://everyjaadu.com/place/edinburgh-witches-well): A small fountain at the foot of Edinburgh Castle that honours the thousands of people tried for witchcraft in Scotland.
- [Boscastle](https://everyjaadu.com/place/boscastle): A Cornish harbour village that houses the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, the world's largest collection of its kind.
- [Glastonbury](https://everyjaadu.com/place/glastonbury): A Somerset town of Christian pilgrimage, Arthurian legend and modern Pagan and New Age life, below a conical hill topped by a medieval tower.
- [Stonehenge and Avebury](https://everyjaadu.com/place/stonehenge-avebury): The two great stone monuments of Wiltshire, which have drawn antiquarians, Druids and modern Pagans for centuries.
- [Newgrange](https://everyjaadu.com/place/newgrange): An Irish passage tomb, built around 3200 BCE, lit by the winter solstice sunrise through a roof-box above its entrance.
- [The Brocken](https://everyjaadu.com/place/brocken): The highest peak of the Harz mountains, where German folklore set the Walpurgis Night gathering of witches.
- [Bamberg](https://everyjaadu.com/place/bamberg): A Franconian city where, between 1626 and 1631, over a thousand people were executed in some of the worst witch trials in Europe.
- [Würzburg](https://everyjaadu.com/place/wurzburg): A Franconian city where, between 1626 and 1631, the prince-bishop's court tried hundreds for witchcraft, including children and clergy.
- [Trier](https://everyjaadu.com/place/trier): The oldest city in Germany, where the Trier witch trials of 1581 to 1593 may have killed over three hundred and fifty people.
- [Vardø](https://everyjaadu.com/place/vardo): A fishing town in far north-east Norway with the Steilneset Memorial, built for the ninety-one people killed in witch trials from 1621 to 1692.
- [Hólmavík](https://everyjaadu.com/place/holmavik): A small fishing town in the Icelandic Westfjords, with the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft.
- [Gamla Uppsala](https://everyjaadu.com/place/uppsala): The old religious and royal centre of Sweden, where Norse sources describe a great temple and sacrifices every nine years.
- [Zugarramurdi](https://everyjaadu.com/place/zugarramurdi): A Basque village with a large cave where a witch trial of 1609 to 1614 began, ending in an Inquisition auto-da-fe in Logrono.
- [Toledo](https://everyjaadu.com/place/toledo): A hill city of Spain where Christian, Jewish and Muslim scholars translated Arabic works, and which gained a name as a city of magic.
- [Salamanca](https://everyjaadu.com/place/salamanca): A university city of western Spain, with a legend of a cave where a devil is said to have taught the black arts.
- [Prague](https://everyjaadu.com/place/prague): A city known for the court of Rudolf II, whose collections, alchemists and astronomers made it a centre of learned magic around 1600.
- [Brocéliande](https://everyjaadu.com/place/broceliande): The Breton forest of Paimpont, said in medieval romance to be the home of Merlin, Viviane and the fountain of Barenton.
- [Tintagel](https://everyjaadu.com/place/tintagel): A Cornish headland with a ruined castle, tied by Geoffrey of Monmouth to the conception of King Arthur and the wizard Merlin's help.
- [Rennes-le-Chateau](https://everyjaadu.com/place/rennes-le-chateau): A hilltop village in southern France that became a legend of hidden treasure, secret societies and a supposed bloodline of Jesus, none of which has evidence.
- [New Orleans: Marie Laveau and the cemeteries](https://everyjaadu.com/place/new-orleans-voodoo): A city where Louisiana Voodoo grew from West African, Haitian and Catholic roots, and where the tomb of Marie Laveau is the best known place.
- [Congo Square](https://everyjaadu.com/place/congo-square): A park in New Orleans where, under early nineteenth-century rules, enslaved and free Black people gathered on Sundays to sing, dance and trade.
- [Pennsylvania Dutch Country](https://everyjaadu.com/place/pennsylvania-dutch): A region of south-east Pennsylvania where German-speaking settlers kept hex signs, powwowing and a book of charms.
- [Appalachian folk magic](https://everyjaadu.com/place/appalachia): The southern mountains, where a tradition of Scots-Irish, German, Cherokee and African American folk healing and sign-reading has been kept by families.
- [Lily Dale](https://everyjaadu.com/place/lily-dale): A lakeside community in western New York that has been a centre of Spiritualism since 1879, where registered mediums give readings.
- [Cassadaga](https://everyjaadu.com/place/cassadaga): A small Florida community founded in 1894 as a Spiritualist camp, which today has resident mediums and a hotel.
- [Sedona](https://everyjaadu.com/place/sedona): A red-rock town in Arizona where a New Age industry of vortex tours, crystals and readings grew from the 1980s, on land with a long Native American history.
- [Bear Butte](https://everyjaadu.com/place/bear-butte): A mountain at the edge of the Black Hills that is sacred to the Lakota, Cheyenne and many other nations, where prayer and vision seeking continue.
- [Las Vegas](https://everyjaadu.com/place/las-vegas): The world's busiest city for stage magic, where resident shows have run for decades and the audience knows it is being fooled.
- [Bois Caiman](https://everyjaadu.com/place/bois-caiman): A wooded site in northern Haiti, said to be where a Vodou ceremony in August 1791 launched the revolution that led to Haitian independence.
- [Souvenance](https://everyjaadu.com/place/souvenance): A Vodou sanctuary near Gonaives in Haiti, where a major festival takes place each year around the Catholic feast of the Assumption.
- [Saut-d'Eau](https://everyjaadu.com/place/saut-deau): A waterfall in central Haiti where Catholic and Vodou pilgrims gather in July to bathe, pray and honour a vision of the Virgin Mary and the spirit Ezili Danto.
- [Regla](https://everyjaadu.com/place/regla): A district of Havana across the bay, home to the shrine of the Virgin of Regla, who is honoured as Yemaya in Santeria.
- [El Cobre](https://everyjaadu.com/place/el-cobre): The basilica of the Virgin of Charity, patron of Cuba, who is honoured by Catholics and by followers of Santeria as Oshun.
- [Accompong](https://everyjaadu.com/place/accompong): A Maroon town in the hills of Jamaica, founded by descendants of escaped Africans, whose heritage includes a spirit tradition called Myal and Kromanti dance.
- [Salvador de Bahia](https://everyjaadu.com/place/salvador-bahia): The Brazilian city with the largest number of Candomble terreiros, the communities of an Afro-Brazilian religion, many of them centuries old.
- [Rio de Janeiro: Iemanja and Umbanda](https://everyjaadu.com/place/copacabana-rio): A city where Umbanda, a Brazilian religion of the twentieth century, is practised, and where people greet the sea goddess Iemanja at Copacabana each New Year's Eve.
- [Catemaco](https://everyjaadu.com/place/catemaco): A lake town in Veracruz known across Mexico for its brujos, who hold a gathering each year on the first Friday of March.
- [Huautla de Jimenez](https://everyjaadu.com/place/huautla): A Mazatec town in the mountains of Oaxaca, where the healer Maria Sabina was the best known guide of mushroom ceremonies, and where outside visitors have caused harm.
- [Chichicastenango](https://everyjaadu.com/place/chichicastenango): A Maya K'iche' town in the Guatemalan highlands where the church steps are used for Catholic and Maya rites, with incense burned and candles lit.
- [Cusco](https://everyjaadu.com/place/cusco): The old Inca capital in the Andes, where offerings to the earth, called despachos, and to the mountain spirits, called apus, are still made.
- [Isla del Sol](https://everyjaadu.com/place/isla-del-sol): An island in Lake Titicaca that Inca tradition named as the birthplace of the sun and the first Inca, and where Aymara communities still live.
- [Huancabamba and Las Huaringas](https://everyjaadu.com/place/huancabamba): A town in northern Peru known as a place of healers, near the Huaringas lakes, where curanderos hold night-long healing rites.
- [La Paz Witches' Market](https://everyjaadu.com/place/witches-market-la-paz): A street market in the Bolivian capital, where Aymara women sell llama foetuses, herbs, amulets and miniature offerings for the earth.
- [Iquitos](https://everyjaadu.com/place/iquitos): A city on the Peruvian Amazon, reached only by boat or air, and the centre for ayahuasca tourism and traditional plant healing.
- [Mapuche lands: Temuco](https://everyjaadu.com/place/mapuche-temuco): The capital of Araucania in southern Chile, close to Mapuche communities whose spiritual leader is the machi, usually a woman, and whose rites include the nguillatun.
- [Chiloe](https://everyjaadu.com/place/chiloe): An island group in southern Chile, rich in tales of sorcerers, the ghost ship Caleuche and a legendary society of warlocks.
- [Uluru](https://everyjaadu.com/place/uluru): A great sandstone monolith in central Australia, sacred to the Anangu, who hold that it was formed in the Tjukurpa, the time of creation, and who ask visitors not to climb it.
- [Rotorua](https://everyjaadu.com/place/rotorua): A geothermal town in New Zealand's North Island, home to Te Arawa Maori, with marae, carving schools and living traditions of mana and tapu.
- [Pu'uhonua o Honaunau](https://everyjaadu.com/place/puuhonua-honaunau): A sacred refuge on the Kona coast of Hawaii where, under the old kapu laws, people who had broken a rule could be absolved by a priest and return home.
- [The Sepik River](https://everyjaadu.com/place/sepik): A great river of northern Papua New Guinea, whose villages built spirit houses and carved figures for initiation, and where fear of sorcery and accusations of witchcraft remain a serious problem.
- [Tanna](https://everyjaadu.com/place/tanna): A Vanuatu island where the John Frum movement, born in the late 1930s, is still practised, with a yearly ceremony each 15 February and a belief in a leader who will return.

## Days
- [Chaharshanbe Suri](https://everyjaadu.com/days/chaharshanbe-suri): The Tuesday night before the last Wednesday of the Persian year, when people jump over bonfires to leave sickness and ill luck behind.
- [Nowruz, the threshold of the year](https://everyjaadu.com/days/nowruz-omens): The spring equinox new year, with a deep clean, a table of symbolic foods and first-footing for luck.
- [Shab-e Yalda and fal-e Hafez](https://everyjaadu.com/days/shab-e-yalda): The longest night of the year, kept awake with fruit, poetry and a question put to the poems of Hafez.
- [Kaparot before Yom Kippur](https://everyjaadu.com/days/kaparot): The custom of swinging a chicken or money around the head as a symbolic exchange before the Day of Atonement.
- [Lag BaOmer](https://everyjaadu.com/days/lag-baomer): The day of bonfires and the pilgrimage to Meron, honouring the sage said to have revealed the Zohar.
- [Qingming, the tomb-sweeping festival](https://everyjaadu.com/days/qingming): Families clean the graves of their dead, make offerings and burn paper goods for use in the next world.
- [Hungry Ghost Festival (Zhongyuan)](https://everyjaadu.com/days/hungry-ghost-festival): The fifteenth night of the seventh lunar month, in a month when the gates of the underworld are said to stand open.
- [Lantern Festival](https://everyjaadu.com/days/lantern-festival): The first full moon of the new year, with lanterns, riddles and sweet dumplings that stand for reunion.
- [Chinese New Year and its protective customs](https://everyjaadu.com/days/chinese-new-year-protection): Red paper, firecrackers, door guardians and a sweeping taboo, all aimed at keeping bad luck out of the new year.
- [Dragon Boat Festival and its protective herbs](https://everyjaadu.com/days/dragon-boat-festival): The fifth day of the fifth month, a time believed dangerous for illness, met with mugwort, calamus and scented sachets.
- [Obon](https://everyjaadu.com/days/obon): The midsummer days when the spirits of ancestors are welcomed home with fires, offerings and dancing, then sent back.
- [Setsubun](https://everyjaadu.com/days/setsubun): The eve of spring in the old calendar, when roasted soybeans are thrown to drive out demons and bring in luck.
- [Tanabata](https://everyjaadu.com/days/tanabata): Wishes written on paper strips and hung on bamboo for two stars that meet once a year.
- [Daeboreum, the great full moon](https://everyjaadu.com/days/daeboreum): Korea's first full moon, with wishes made to the moon, nut-cracking against boils and fire games for the year's fields.
- [Chuseok and the rites for ancestors](https://everyjaadu.com/days/chuseok-ancestral-rites): The autumn harvest holiday when families set out food for the ancestors and visit their graves.
- [Songkran and the water blessing](https://everyjaadu.com/days/songkran-blessings): The new year of Thailand and its neighbours, when water is poured on Buddha images and elders to wash away bad luck.
- [Wai Khru at Wat Bang Phra (Sak Yant festival)](https://everyjaadu.com/days/wai-khru-wat-bang-phra): The annual gathering where tattooed devotees renew the protective power of their sacred tattoos and sometimes fall into trance.
- [Vesak](https://everyjaadu.com/days/vesak-blessings): The full-moon day of the Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death, kept with lamps, chanting and the release of animals.
- [Loy Krathong](https://everyjaadu.com/days/loy-krathong): The full-moon night when small floats of leaves, flowers and candles carry away bad luck on the river.
- [Galungan and Kuningan](https://everyjaadu.com/days/galungan-kuningan): Bali's ten days when ancestors are believed to return home, marked with bamboo penjor and offerings.
- [Nyepi and the ogoh-ogoh](https://everyjaadu.com/days/nyepi-ogoh-ogoh): Bali's day of silence, preceded by a night when giant demon effigies are paraded and burned.
- [Tet and its protective customs](https://everyjaadu.com/days/tet-protective-customs): Vietnam's new year, with the kitchen god sent to heaven, a first visitor chosen for luck and a tall pole to keep spirits out.
- [Sinhala and Tamil New Year and its auspicious times](https://everyjaadu.com/days/aluth-avurudda): In Sri Lanka, each act of the new year, from lighting the hearth to the first meal, is done at a time set by astrologers.
- [Diwali, the night of lamps](https://everyjaadu.com/days/diwali-lakshmi-night): The new-moon night when lamps are lit to welcome Lakshmi and to drive out misfortune from the house.
- [Kali Puja](https://everyjaadu.com/days/kali-puja): The midnight worship of the goddess Kali on the new-moon night of Diwali, in Bengal, Odisha and Assam.
- [Maha Shivaratri](https://everyjaadu.com/days/maha-shivaratri): The great night of Shiva, kept with fasting, an all-night vigil and the pouring of water and milk over the lingam.
- [Navratri, the nine nights](https://everyjaadu.com/days/navratri-nine-nights): Nine nights for the goddess in her forms, with fasting, dance and the worship of young girls.
- [Durga Puja](https://everyjaadu.com/days/durga-puja): The five days when Bengal welcomes Durga as a daughter home, with clay images that are given life by painting their eyes.
- [Holika Dahan](https://everyjaadu.com/days/holika-dahan): The bonfire on the eve of Holi, burned in memory of Holika, and a night when ash and the fire are used as protection.
- [Makar Sankranti](https://everyjaadu.com/days/makar-sankranti): The day the Sun turns north, marked with river bathing, kites and sweets of sesame and jaggery.
- [Pitru Paksha](https://everyjaadu.com/days/pitru-paksha): The fortnight of the ancestors, when water, sesame and rice balls are offered to the dead of the family.
- [Akshaya Tritiya](https://everyjaadu.com/days/akshaya-tritiya): A day held to be auspicious in itself, so that any new venture needs no search for a lucky hour.
- [Ambubachi Mela at Kamakhya](https://everyjaadu.com/days/ambubachi-mela): The annual three-day closure of the Kamakhya temple in Assam, when the goddess is believed to menstruate.
- [Nag Panchami](https://everyjaadu.com/days/nag-panchami): The day for honouring snakes, with milk and flowers offered at anthills and snake images.
- [Raksha Bandhan, the protective thread](https://everyjaadu.com/days/raksha-bandhan): A sister ties a thread on a brother's wrist, which is believed to protect him, and he promises his protection in return.
- [Thaipusam and the kavadi](https://everyjaadu.com/days/thaipusam-kavadi): The Tamil festival of Murugan, when devotees carry kavadi burdens, some with hooks and skewers through the skin.
- [The Theyyam season of north Kerala](https://everyjaadu.com/days/theyyam-season): From autumn to late spring, men in towering costumes become gods in village shrines and bless the people who kneel before them.
- [Naadam and the ovoo](https://everyjaadu.com/days/naadam-ovoo): Mongolia's summer games, with roots in rites at stone cairns and the sky god Tengri.
- [Tsagaan Sar, the White Moon](https://everyjaadu.com/days/tsagaan-sar): The Mongolian new year, with debts cleared, lamps lit and elders greeted by a ritual exchange of blue scarves.
- [Sham el-Nessim](https://everyjaadu.com/days/sham-el-nessim): The Egyptian spring day on the Monday after Coptic Easter, with onions, salted fish and coloured eggs.
- [Gnawa and World Music Festival, Essaouira](https://everyjaadu.com/days/gnawa-festival-essaouira): A June festival in a Moroccan port town that brings the Gnawa, descendants of enslaved West Africans, to a wide audience.
- [Meskel and the Demera](https://everyjaadu.com/days/meskel): The Ethiopian feast of the True Cross, with a great bonfire whose falling pole is read as an omen.
- [Timkat](https://everyjaadu.com/days/timkat): The Ethiopian Epiphany, when the tabots, replicas of the Ark, are carried to water that is blessed for baptism renewal.
- [Osun-Osogbo Festival](https://everyjaadu.com/days/osun-osogbo-festival): The August festival at Osogbo in Nigeria that honours the river goddess Osun, with offerings carried to the sacred grove.
- [Vodun Day at Ouidah](https://everyjaadu.com/days/ouidah-vodun-day): Benin's national day of its indigenous religion, with processions, masked figures and offerings on the Atlantic shore.
- [Famadihana, the turning of the bones](https://everyjaadu.com/days/famadihana-season): In the dry season, Malagasy families open the family tomb, rewrap their dead in new cloth and dance with them.
- [Matariki](https://everyjaadu.com/days/matariki): The Māori new year, when the rising of the Pleiades before dawn is read for the year ahead and the dead are remembered.
- [Makahiki](https://everyjaadu.com/days/makahiki): The Hawaiian season of the god Lono, when war was forbidden and tribute was carried round the island.
- [Nagol, the land dive of Pentecost Island](https://everyjaadu.com/days/nagol-land-diving): A tower-jump with vines tied to the ankles, done each spring in Vanuatu in the belief that it helps the yam crop.
- [Samhain](https://everyjaadu.com/days/samhain): The Gaelic festival of the turn into winter, when the border with the Otherworld is said to thin and the dead and the fairies move about.
- [Halloween](https://everyjaadu.com/days/halloween): The eve of All Saints, now a children's festival of costume and sweets, with older beliefs about spirits, witches and love divination under it.
- [Imbolc and St Brigid's Day](https://everyjaadu.com/days/imbolc-st-brigid): The start of spring in the Gaelic year, tied to the goddess and saint Brigid, with rush crosses hung over doors and cloths left out for her blessing.
- [Candlemas weather lore](https://everyjaadu.com/days/candlemas-weather-lore): The old saying that fair weather on 2 February promises a longer winter, and the blessing of candles said to turn away storms and harm.
- [Groundhog Day](https://everyjaadu.com/days/groundhog-day): A groundhog is watched on 2 February to see whether it sees its shadow, taken as a forecast of six more weeks of winter.
- [St Valentine's Day love divination](https://everyjaadu.com/days/valentines-day-love-divination): A day on which, in older custom, the first person you meet or the first bird you see was said to show your future partner.
- [Lupercalia](https://everyjaadu.com/days/lupercalia): The ancient Roman rite of purification and fertility, in which young men ran through the city with strips of goat hide.
- [Carnival](https://everyjaadu.com/days/carnival-masks): The days before Lent, when masks, disguise and reversal of order were said to loosen the hold of the dead and the spirits.
- [Kukeri and Surva](https://everyjaadu.com/days/kukeri-surva): Men in huge furred masks and clanging bells walk the villages of Bulgaria to drive away evil spirits and bring fertility to the year.
- [Epiphany and La Befana](https://everyjaadu.com/days/epiphany-befana): In Italy a kindly old witch, the Befana, flies on a broom on Epiphany Eve and fills children's stockings with sweets.
- [Dia de los Reyes Magos](https://everyjaadu.com/days/tres-reyes-magos): The Feast of the Three Kings, the Magi whose name gives magic its word, when children in Spain and Latin America receive their gifts.
- [The Twelve Nights and the Rauhnächte](https://everyjaadu.com/days/rauhnachte-twelve-nights): The twelve nights from Christmas to Epiphany, when in German-speaking lands the Wild Hunt rides, animals are said to speak, and houses are smoked.
- [Krampusnacht](https://everyjaadu.com/days/krampusnacht): The eve of St Nicholas, when horned, furred Krampus figures run through the streets of the Alps, rattling chains and chasing the unwary.
- [St Lucy's Day and Lussi Night](https://everyjaadu.com/days/saint-lucy-lussi-night): Once thought of as the longest night, when in Scandinavian belief the troll-woman Lussi rides and animals must be guarded.
- [Yule and Midwinter](https://everyjaadu.com/days/yule-midwinter): The midwinter feast of the Germanic peoples, now a Pagan sabbat for the longest night, with the Yule log, evergreens and the return of the sun.
- [Wassailing](https://everyjaadu.com/days/wassail-twelfth-night): On Old Twelfth Night in English cider counties, orchards are visited with songs, toast and noise to wake the trees and ward off ill luck.
- [St Agnes' Eve](https://everyjaadu.com/days/saint-agnes-eve): On 20 January, young women in older English custom fasted and went to bed backwards so as to dream of their future husbands.
- [St Mark's Eve](https://everyjaadu.com/days/st-marks-eve): On 24 April in English folk belief, those who kept watch in the church porch at midnight would see the ghosts of those who would die that year.
- [Walpurgis Night and the Brocken](https://everyjaadu.com/days/walpurgis-night): The eve of May, when in German tradition witches were thought to gather on the Brocken and bonfires and noise were used to drive them away.
- [Beltane](https://everyjaadu.com/days/beltane): The Gaelic fire festival of the start of summer, when cattle were driven between bonfires and doors were hung with flowers.
- [May Day](https://everyjaadu.com/days/may-day-garlands): The first of May, with the maypole, garlands and washing the face in dew, and in some places protective greenery set at the door.
- ['Obby 'Oss Day](https://everyjaadu.com/days/obby-oss-padstow): On May Day in Padstow, Cornwall, a masked dancer in a black frame circles the town while the crowd sings, in a custom whose roots are unrecorded.
- [Good Friday folk beliefs](https://everyjaadu.com/days/good-friday-folk-lore): A day of many small beliefs: bread baked on it said never to go mouldy, eggs laid on it said to keep, and buns hung up as a charm.
- [Easter fires](https://everyjaadu.com/days/easter-fires-osterfeuer): On Holy Saturday and Easter night, large bonfires are lit in northern Europe to drive out winter, with older claims of warding off witches.
- [Burning of Judas](https://everyjaadu.com/days/burning-of-judas-holy-saturday): Figures of Judas, often stuffed with fireworks and made to look like local politicians, are hanged and burned in Holy Week.
- [Midsummer and St John's Eve](https://everyjaadu.com/days/midsummer-st-johns-eve): The night around the summer solstice, when plants are said to be at their strongest, bonfires are lit, and girls try to see their future husbands.
- [Noche de San Juan](https://everyjaadu.com/days/noche-de-san-juan): On the night of 23 June, Spaniards light beach bonfires, jump the flames and write wishes to be burned, in a rite of cleansing at midsummer.
- [Ivan Kupala Night](https://everyjaadu.com/days/ivan-kupala-night): The Slavic midsummer night, when girls float wreaths on rivers, couples leap fires, and a fern is said to flower for a moment with a treasure.
- [St Swithin's Day](https://everyjaadu.com/days/st-swithins-day): A weather omen: in English lore, rain on 15 July means rain for forty days after, and fair weather means forty days of dry.
- [Lughnasadh and Lammas](https://everyjaadu.com/days/lughnasadh-lammas): The first-fruits festival at the start of August, a Gaelic assembly tied to the god Lugh, and the English loaf-mass of Lammas.
- [Spring equinox](https://everyjaadu.com/days/spring-equinox-ostara): The day of equal day and night in March, kept by modern Pagans as Ostara, and watched at ancient sites such as Loughcrew in Ireland.
- [Summer solstice at Stonehenge](https://everyjaadu.com/days/summer-solstice-stonehenge): Thousands gather at Stonehenge to greet the longest day, among them Druids, Pagans and visitors, as the sun rises over the Heel Stone.
- [Winter solstice at Newgrange](https://everyjaadu.com/days/winter-solstice-newgrange): The rising sun lights the inner chamber of the Irish passage tomb at Newgrange for a few minutes, and Stonehenge marks the midwinter sunset.
- [Autumn equinox and Mabon](https://everyjaadu.com/days/autumn-equinox-mabon): Day and night again equal in September, kept in the modern Pagan calendar as Mabon, a thanksgiving for the harvest.
- [Hogmanay and first-footing](https://everyjaadu.com/days/hogmanay-first-footing): The Scottish New Year, in which the first person over the threshold after midnight is believed to set the luck of the house.
- [Silvester and lead pouring](https://everyjaadu.com/days/silvester-bleigiessen): On New Year's Eve in Germany and Finland, melted metal dropped into water makes a shape that is read as a sign for the year ahead.
- [Up Helly Aa](https://everyjaadu.com/days/up-helly-aa): A fire festival in Lerwick, Shetland, in which hundreds of costumed Vikings drag a replica longship through the town and burn it.
- [Burning of the Clavie](https://everyjaadu.com/days/burning-of-the-clavie): A burning tar barrel carried round Burghead on the old new-year night, said to cleanse the town of evil spirits and bring luck.
- [Friday the 13th](https://everyjaadu.com/days/friday-the-13th): A day of bad luck in much of the English-speaking world, from the old unluck of Friday and of the number thirteen, studied as a named fear.
- [Tuesday the 13th](https://everyjaadu.com/days/tuesday-the-13th): In Greece, Cyprus and Spain, Tuesday rather than Friday is the unlucky day, and Tuesday the 13th the worst.
- [Solar eclipses and omens](https://everyjaadu.com/days/solar-eclipse-omens): The day a total eclipse darkens the sky, once read as a portent of death or the fall of kings, and still met with rites in many cultures.
- [Dia de Muertos](https://everyjaadu.com/days/dia-de-muertos): Mexico's festival of the dead, with altars of marigolds, candles, food and photographs, welcoming the souls of the departed home.
- [Todos Santos](https://everyjaadu.com/days/todos-santos-andes-guatemala): All Saints in Bolivia, Guatemala and the Andes, with bread dolls for the dead, tables of food at the grave and kites flown to speak to them.
- [Dia de las Natitas](https://everyjaadu.com/days/natitas-day-bolivia): In La Paz, families bring human skulls, kept as protectors, to the cemetery to be decorated, blessed and given flowers and coca.
- [The brujos of Catemaco](https://everyjaadu.com/days/catemaco-brujos-gathering): A gathering of healers and sorcerers at Lake Catemaco, Veracruz, on the first Friday of March, with cleansings for the coming year.
- [Fete Gede](https://everyjaadu.com/days/fete-gede): The Vodou festival of the Gede, the family of spirits of the dead, held at the cemeteries of Haiti on 1 and 2 November.
- [Festa de Iemanja in Salvador](https://everyjaadu.com/days/festa-de-iemanja-salvador): Devotees of Candomble and many Catholics bring white flowers, perfume and mirrors to the sea at Rio Vermelho, Salvador, for Iemanja, queen of the sea.
- [Iemanja and New Year in Rio](https://everyjaadu.com/days/iemanja-reveillon-rio): On New Year's Eve in Rio de Janeiro, millions in white throw flowers and gifts into the sea, and jump seven waves, for Iemanja.
- [San Lazaro and Babalu-Aye](https://everyjaadu.com/days/san-lazaro-babalu-aye): In Cuba and its diaspora, pilgrims honour St Lazarus, who is also Babalu-Aye, the orisha of disease and healing, on 17 December.
- [Inti Raymi](https://everyjaadu.com/days/inti-raymi): The Inca festival of the sun, held at the winter solstice in the south, now re-enacted each 24 June at Cusco and Sacsayhuaman.
- [Pachamama month](https://everyjaadu.com/days/pachamama-august): August in the Andes is the month of offerings to the Earth Mother, when she is said to be hungry and open, and the ground is fed with food and drink.
- [Salem in October](https://everyjaadu.com/days/salem-october): The Massachusetts town of the 1692 witch trials fills each October with a month of Halloween events, tours and memorials.
- [The Wheel of the Year](https://everyjaadu.com/days/wheel-of-the-year-sabbats): The modern Pagan calendar of eight sabbats, from Samhain to Mabon, assembled in the mid twentieth century from older festivals.
- [St Andrew's Eve](https://everyjaadu.com/days/st-andrews-eve-divination): Poland's Andrzejki and the Romanian night of St Andrew, when wax is poured through a key hole and girls try to learn who they will marry.

## Concepts
- **Magic**: A word for practices meant to bring about results by means outside ordinary cause and effect, and a word whose meaning is still argued over. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/magic)
- **Religion, magic and science**: A long scholarly debate about whether magic, religion and science are separate kinds of thought or points on one line. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/religion-magic-science)
- **Sympathetic magic**: Frazer's term for magic that rests on a link between things, either because they resemble each other or because they were once in contact. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/sympathetic-magic)
- **Law of similarity**: The belief that like produces like, so that acting on an image or a likeness is thought to affect the real thing. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/law-of-similarity)
- **Law of contagion**: The belief that things once in contact stay linked, so that hair, nails or a worn garment can stand in for a person. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/law-of-contagion)
- **Imitative magic**: Rites that act out a wished-for result, such as rain, a good hunt or a safe birth, in the belief that the acting helps bring it about. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/imitative-magic)
- **Apotropaic magic**: Practices and objects meant to turn away harm, such as the evil eye, bad luck or hostile spirits. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/apotropaic-magic)
- **White and black magic**: A popular split between helpful and harmful magic, one that scholars treat with caution because it depends on who is judging. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/white-and-black-magic)
- **Sorcery and witchcraft**: A distinction made by Evans-Pritchard: witchcraft as an innate power, sorcery as harm done by learned technique. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/sorcery-witchcraft)
- **Cunning folk**: Village practitioners in Britain and Europe who healed, found lost things and unpicked curses, usually for a fee. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/cunning-folk)
- **Animism**: The view that animals, plants, places and objects have spirit or personhood, and a word that has changed meaning more than once. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/animism)
- **Mana**: A Polynesian and Melanesian idea of spiritual power or efficacy that can reside in people, places and things. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/mana)
- **Tapu**: A Polynesian term for what is set apart as sacred or restricted, the source of the English word taboo. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/tapu)
- **Orenda**: A Haudenosaunee word, recorded in Wyandot and Iroquoian languages, for a spiritual power present in people and nature. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/orenda)
- **Wakan**: A Lakota word for what is sacred, mysterious or powerful, used in names for spiritual leaders and the sacred itself. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/wakan)
- **The numinous**: Rudolf Otto's word for the feeling of the sacred as something wholly other, both awe-inspiring and fascinating. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/numinous)
- **Taboo**: A prohibition on touching, saying, eating or doing something, backed by the belief that crossing the line brings harm. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/taboo)
- **Fetish**: A word from Portuguese traders for West African objects, later turned into a colonial label for African religion as a whole. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/fetish)
- **Amulet, talisman and charm**: Three overlapping names for objects believed to protect or help: an amulet guards, a talisman is made to give power, a charm is often spoken or worn. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/amulet-talisman-charm)
- **Sigil**: A drawn sign or symbol made to stand for a spirit, an intention or a power, from the Latin sigillum, a small seal. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/sigil)
- **Glamour**: An old Scots word for an illusion cast over the eyes, later a word for allure; fairies and witches were said to cast it. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/glamour)
- **Enchantment**: The act of placing a charm or spell on a person or thing, and in some scholars' writing the lost feeling of a world full of meaning. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/enchantment)
- **Spell**: A set of words, often with actions or objects, used to bring about a hoped-for effect; in older English a spell was simply a story. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/spell)
- **Incantation**: Spoken or chanted words used in a rite, in the belief that sound and exact wording carry power. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/incantation)
- **Performative utterance**: J. L. Austin's name for words that carry out an act when said, such as a vow or a naming, a model often applied to spells. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/performative-utterance)
- **Ritual**: A set of actions, words and objects performed in a fixed or meaningful way, whose power is found in the doing. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/ritual)
- **Rite of passage**: A ritual that marks a change of status, such as birth, coming of age, marriage or death, in three stages. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/rite-of-passage)
- **Liminality**: The in-between condition during a rite of passage, when a person is neither what they were nor yet what they will be. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/liminality)
- **Shamanism**: A term for religious specialists who enter altered states to meet spirits on behalf of a community, from a Siberian Tungusic word. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/shamanism)
- **Trance and possession**: States in which a person is believed to be entered, or carried away, by a spirit, found in religions across the world. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/trance-and-possession)
- **Mediumship**: The practice of acting as a channel between the living and the dead or other spirits, central to Spiritualism. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/mediumship)
- **Theurgy, thaumaturgy and goetia**: Three old terms sorting magic by aim: theurgy seeks union with the divine, thaumaturgy works wonders, goetia deals with spirits. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/theurgy-thaumaturgy-goetia)
- **Occult**: From Latin for hidden: the study and practice of knowledge held to be concealed from ordinary view. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/occult)
- **Esotericism**: A scholarly field and a word for teachings meant for a circle of initiates, including hermetic, Kabbalistic and astrological streams. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/esotericism)
- **Hermeticism**: A tradition of writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, a Greek name for a figure joined to the Egyptian god Thoth. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/hermeticism)
- **Neoplatonism**: A philosophy of the third century onward, founded on Plotinus, that shaped later magic, theology and mysticism. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/neoplatonism)
- **The Great Work**: The central aim of alchemy and later ceremonial magic: a transformation of matter, and in many writers, of the self. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/great-work)
- **Correspondences**: The idea that planets, metals, colours, plants, days and body parts are linked in matching sets, used to plan rites. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/correspondences)
- **Microcosm and macrocosm**: The idea that the human being mirrors the universe, so that what holds for one holds for the other. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/microcosm-macrocosm)
- **Divination**: The attempt to learn what is hidden or to come by reading signs, drawing lots or consulting spirits. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/divination)
- **Augury**: Divination from the flight and cries of birds, a state ritual in Rome and a custom in many other places. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/augury)
- **Omen**: An event taken as a sign of what is to come, whether good or bad, from an eclipse to a spilled drink. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/omen)
- **Fate and fortune**: Ideas of how far life is set in advance, and how far a person can change it, shaping what people ask of magic. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/fate-and-fortune)
- **Luck**: The belief that good or bad outcomes come from something other than skill, which can be attracted, kept or turned away. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/luck)
- **Superstition**: A word for beliefs and habits judged irrational by the speaker, and one that scholars use with care because it carries a verdict. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/superstition)
- **Folklore**: The traditional stories, sayings, customs and beliefs of a group, passed on by word of mouth and example. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/folklore)
- **Folk religion**: The religion as people live it day to day, including charms, saints, pilgrimages and household rites, alongside official teaching. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/folk-religion)
- **Syncretism**: The merging of elements from different religions, as in Santería, Candomblé and Vodou, which join West African and Catholic worlds. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/syncretism)
- **Diaspora religion**: A faith carried by migrants or enslaved people to new lands, where it changes in contact with other traditions. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/diaspora-religion)
- **Closed practice**: A tradition whose rites or knowledge are kept for members, initiates or a community, which outsiders are asked to respect. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/closed-practice)
- **Cultural appropriation**: The taking of another culture's sacred or cultural forms, such as smudging, dreamcatchers or shamanic workshops, without consent or credit. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/cultural-appropriation)
- **Witch-hunt**: A campaign to find and punish people accused of witchcraft, and by extension any hunt for scapegoats. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/witch-hunt)
- **Witch trials**: The legal prosecutions for witchcraft in Europe and its colonies, mainly from about 1450 to 1750. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/witch-trials)
- **Witchcraft accusations today**: Accusations of witchcraft that still lead to violence and killing, in parts of Africa, South Asia, Papua New Guinea and elsewhere. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/witchcraft-accusations-today)
- **Moral panic**: A wave of public fear that a group or practice threatens society, often out of proportion to the evidence. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/moral-panic)
- **The Satanic panic**: A fear in the 1980s and early 1990s, mainly in the United States, that secret Satanic cults were abusing children. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/satanic-panic)
- **Neopaganism and Wicca**: Modern religions drawing on pre-Christian imagery; Wicca was publicised by Gerald Gardner in England in the 1950s. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/neopaganism-wicca)
- **The occult revival**: A surge of interest in magic, Spiritualism and esotericism in the nineteenth century, with another wave in the 1960s and 1970s. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/occult-revival)
- **New Age**: A loose spiritual movement from the 1970s on, mixing esoteric ideas, Eastern practices and self-development, and now a large industry. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/new-age)
- **Scepticism**: The practice of asking for evidence before accepting a claim, applied to magic, psychic powers and alternative healing. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/scepticism)
- **Cold reading**: A set of techniques by which a reader appears to know much about a stranger, by using their reactions and general statements. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/cold-reading)
- **Barnum effect**: The tendency to accept vague, general descriptions as personal and accurate, as in horoscopes and personality tests. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/barnum-effect)
- **Confirmation bias**: The habit of noticing and remembering what fits what we already believe, and forgetting what does not. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/confirmation-bias)
- **Placebo and ritual healing**: How anthropologists and clinicians study the effect of ritual, expectation and care on how people feel when they are ill. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/placebo-ritual-healing)
- **Cargo cult**: A label for Melanesian movements that expected a new order and goods, a term many scholars now avoid as condescending. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/cargo-cult)
- **The magician's code**: The convention among stage magicians not to reveal how tricks are done, which keeps the art alive. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/magicians-code)
- **Mantra**: A sacred sound or phrase from the Sanskrit traditions, repeated in worship, protection and meditation. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/mantra)
- **Yantra**: A geometric diagram, drawn or engraved, used in Hindu and Buddhist worship as a seat for a deity or a focus for a rite. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/yantra)
- **Tantra**: A family of Hindu and Buddhist ritual traditions, widely misread in the West as sexual technique or as black magic. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/tantra)
- **Puja**: Hindu worship with offerings, the frame in which many household blessings, protections and cleansings take place. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/puja)
- **Jadu-tona**: North Indian words for sorcery and small charms: jadu is magic, tona a minor ritual act, often against a rival or a bad stare. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/jadu-tona)
- **Nazar and drishti**: South Asian words for the evil eye: the harm believed to follow envious or admiring looks, and the customs that turn it aside. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/nazar-and-drishti)
- **Jyotish**: Indian astrology, a system of birth charts and planetary periods consulted before marriages, journeys and new ventures. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/jyotish)
- **Ojha**: A village healer and ritual specialist in eastern India, consulted for snakebite, illness and spirit trouble. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/ojha)
- **Bhoot and pret**: Hindi words for the restless dead: the ghost left behind by an untimely death or unfinished funeral rites. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/bhoot-and-pret)
- **Bhuta kola**: A night rite in coastal Karnataka and north Kerala in which a performer becomes a guardian spirit, a bhuta, and speaks for it. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/bhuta-kola)
- **Siddhi**: In Indian traditions, a power said to come with spiritual practice, such as lightness or the ability to read minds. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/siddhi)
- **Pawang**: Malay and Indonesian title for an expert in the unseen who guides a task: the rain handler, the fishing or mining guide, the animal tamer. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/pawang)
- **Bomoh**: The Malay folk healer and diviner, using prayers, herbs and spirit work, consulted alongside clinics and mosques. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/bomoh)
- **Dukun**: The Javanese and Indonesian traditional healer and spiritual adviser, who may also be accused of sending harm. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/dukun)
- **Phi**: The Thai and Lao word for spirit: ghosts, guardians of land and house, and the powers that are fed at a spirit house. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/phi)
- **Nat**: The Burmese spirit lords honoured beside Buddhism, who speak through mediums at festivals such as Taungbyone. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/nat)
- **Sak yant**: A sacred tattoo of Thailand and Cambodia, drawn with a long needle by a monk or ajarn, said to protect its wearer. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/sak-yant)
- **Anito**: The ancestor and nature spirits of pre-colonial Philippine religion, and the carved figures that honoured them. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/anito)
- **Albularyo**: The Filipino folk healer, from the Spanish word for herb-doctor, who combines plants, prayers and sometimes spirit diagnosis. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/albularyo)
- **Mambabarang**: In Philippine folk belief, a sorcerer said to send illness through insects, one of several feared figures of harm. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/mambabarang)
- **Fu**: A Taoist talisman: a written charm in the cursive script of priests, pasted, worn or burned in a ritual. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/fu)
- **Onmyodo**: Japan's Way of Yin and Yang: court divination and ritual from the Heian era, and the home of the shikigami legends. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/onmyodo)
- **Kitsune and tanuki**: Japanese folk belief in shape-shifting foxes and raccoon dogs, and the history of people said to be possessed by them. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/kitsune)
- **Feng shui**: The Chinese practice of siting graves, houses and cities by the flow of qi, the breath thought to run through land and buildings. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/feng-shui)
- **Mudang**: The Korean shaman, usually a woman, who holds a gut: a rite of song, dance and spirit possession for the living and the dead. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/mudang)
- **Kami**: The sacred powers of Shinto: gods, ancestral spirits and the presence found in mountains, trees and shrines. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/kami)
- **Baksy**: Central Asian word for a singer-healer: in Kazakh and Kyrgyz a shaman who plays the kobyz, in Uzbek an epic singer. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/baksy)
- **Kam**: The Turkic word for shaman, used among the Altai, Tuvan and Khakas peoples of southern Siberia. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/kam)
- **Tengri**: The sky god of Turkic and Mongol peoples, and the name of a modern movement to revive pre-Islamic steppe religion. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/tengri)
- **Chilla**: A forty-day retreat of fasting and prayer in Sufi and Persian tradition, also borrowed by folk magical practice. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/chilla)
- **Sihr**: The Arabic word for magic, which Islamic law generally treats as sorcery and forbids. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/sihr)
- **Ruqyah**: The recitation of Quranic verses and prayers over a person, believed to protect them or relieve harm from sihr, jinn or envy. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/ruqyah)
- **Jinn**: In Islamic and wider Middle Eastern belief, unseen beings made of smokeless fire who share the world with humans. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/jinn)
- **Taweez**: A written Muslim amulet, usually Quranic verses or sacred names on paper, worn in a case or folded in a pouch. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/taweez)
- **Baraka**: The Arabic word for blessing, treated in North African and Sufi practice as a power that rests in saints, shrines and their objects. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/baraka)
- **Ayin hara**: The Hebrew name for the evil eye, the harm that praise or envy is believed to bring, and the words said to ward it off. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/ayin-hara)
- **Golem**: A figure of clay brought to life by a rabbi in Jewish legend, best known from the story of Prague. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/golem)
- **Dybbuk**: In Jewish folk belief, the spirit of a dead person that clings to a living one and speaks through them. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/dybbuk)
- **Kabbalah**: The Jewish esoteric tradition, including its practical branch of divine names and amulets, now widely commercialised. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/kabbalah)
- **Heka**: The Egyptian word for the creative power invoked in spells and medicine, and the name of the god who personified it. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/heka)
- **Bkhour**: The incense of Morocco and the Maghreb, burned to perfume a home and, by custom, to clear it of envy and unseen harm. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/bkhour)
- **Gnawa**: A Moroccan spiritual brotherhood, descended from enslaved Sub-Saharan Africans, whose all-night lila ritual is a rite of healing and trance. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/gnawa)
- **Ase**: The Yoruba word for the power to make things happen, carried in speech, rites and sacred objects, and found across the diaspora. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/ase)
- **Orisha**: The deities of Yoruba religion, honoured in Nigeria and Benin and, as orixa and oricha, in Brazil and Cuba. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/orisha)
- **Ifa**: The Yoruba system of divination and sacred verse, led by babalawo, with 256 signs called odu. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/ifa)
- **Babalawo**: The Yoruba priest of Ifa, whose name means father of secrets, trained for years to read and recite the odu. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/babalawo)
- **Sangoma**: The Zulu and Xhosa diviner-healer, called by ancestors to the work and consulted through divination and spirit communication. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/sangoma)
- **Inyanga**: The Zulu herbalist who prepares remedies and charms from plants and animal products, and learns by apprenticeship. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/inyanga)
- **Muti**: A southern African word for traditional medicine of plant, animal and mineral materials, and, in a darker sense, the motive behind muti killings. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/muti)
- **Juju**: West African English for charms and the unseen power behind them, and in Edo State the oath sworn to traffickers. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/juju)
- **Nkisi**: A Kongo power figure or container that holds a spirit, made and activated by a ritual specialist, the nganga. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/nkisi)
- **Nganga**: The Kongo ritual specialist who makes minkisi and heals; the same word in Bantu languages names the healer and the diviner. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/nganga)
- **Egungun**: The Yoruba masquerade of the ancestors, in which a figure in layered cloth is received as a returning forebear. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/egungun)
- **Mami Wata**: The water spirit of West and Central Africa and its diaspora, usually shown as a woman with a snake, said to give wealth and take it away. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/mami-wata)
- **Bori**: The Hausa spirit-possession tradition of Niger and Nigeria, in which mediums host spirits called iskoki. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/bori)
- **Zar**: A spirit possession rite found from Ethiopia and Sudan to Egypt and the Gulf, mostly of women, held to settle a troubling spirit. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/zar)
- **Wortcunning**: The Old English knowledge of plants, used in healing and charm, as recorded in the Anglo-Saxon leechbooks. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/wortcunning)
- **Seidr**: Norse sorcery of fate and vision, linked to Freyja, practised in the sagas by women called volur and seen as shameful for men. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/seidr)
- **Volva**: The Norse seeress, a staff-bearing woman who foretells and shapes fate, from the poem Voluspa to the saga of Erik the Red. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/volva)
- **Galdr**: The Old Norse word for a sung or chanted charm, and later the name of Icelandic magical books. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/galdr)
- **Fairy faith**: The belief in an otherworld people living beside humans, held in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Brittany and treated with courtesy and caution. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/fairy-faith)
- **Changeling**: In European folklore, a being left in place of a stolen child, and a belief that led to real neglect and, at times, killing. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/changeling)
- **Malocchio**: The Italian evil eye: harm believed to follow envious looks, countered by horn charms and a household rite known mostly to older women. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/malocchio)
- **Benandanti**: A sixteenth and seventeenth century group in Friuli, northern Italy, who said they fought witches in spirit to protect the harvest. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/benandanti)
- **Strega**: The Italian and German words for witch, strega and Hexe, with the ambiguous village figure behind them. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/strega)
- **Braucherei**: The Pennsylvania German tradition of folk healing and protection with prayers and charms, usually called powwowing in English. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/braucherei)
- **Noaidi**: The Sámi ritual specialist of northern Scandinavia, who used a drum to journey and foresee, and whose tradition missionaries suppressed. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/noaidi)
- **Zagovor**: The Russian spoken charm, whispered by a village healer, a znakhar or a babka, over illness, fear and trouble. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/zagovor)
- **Hoodoo**: African American folk magic of the American South, using roots, objects and Psalms for luck, protection and justice. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/hoodoo)
- **Conjure**: The older African American word for working magic, applied to the practitioner, the practice and the harm it could cause or cure. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/conjure)
- **Powwow**: The English name for Pennsylvania German folk healing, borrowed from a Native American word and unrelated to the Native gatherings known as pow wows. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/powwow)
- **Brujería**: Spanish for witchcraft: in Latin American and US Latino communities it names harm done in secret, and the accusations it brings. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/brujeria)
- **Medicine man**: An outsider's word for many different Native American ritual and healing roles, each of which has its own name in its own language. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/medicine-man)
- **Vodou**: The religion of Haiti, built on West African and Catholic elements, centred on service to the lwa. Not the doll-and-curse cliche of film. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/vodou)
- **Lwa**: The spirits of Haitian Vodou, who are served, fed and asked for help, and who speak by possessing devotees. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/lwa)
- **Houngan and mambo**: The priest and priestess of Haitian Vodou, who run a temple, initiate others and mediate with the lwa. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/houngan)
- **Santería**: The Cuban religion of Yoruba orisha and Catholic saints, called Regla de Ocha or Lucumí by many of its priests. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/santeria)
- **Candomblé**: The Afro-Brazilian religion of the orixás, centred on the terreiro, with houses called nations such as Ketu, Jeje and Angola. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/candomble)
- **Obeah**: A Caribbean word for African-derived harm and healing, long criminalised by colonial law and still contested. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/obeah)
- **Curandero**: The folk healer of Latin America and Mexican America, who treats with prayer, herbs and cleansing alongside Catholic faith. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/curandero)
- **Mal de ojo**: The Spanish and Latin American evil eye, said to harm babies and others who are admired without a touch. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/mal-de-ojo)
- **Susto**: A Latin American folk illness of fright, in which a shock is believed to unsettle the soul, treated by healers who call it back. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/susto)
- **Despacho**: An Andean offering bundle, prepared by a specialist and given to the earth and the mountain spirits in thanks and request. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/despacho)
- **Apu**: The Quechua word for a mountain lord, a protector of the community, and its kin: the huaca, any place or thing holding sacred power. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/apu)
- **Machi**: The Mapuche healer and ritual leader of Chile and Argentina, most often a woman, who works with a drum and a ritual ladder. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/machi)
- **Tohunga**: The Maori expert, a priest, healer or master of a craft, whose work was suppressed by New Zealand law from 1907 to 1962. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/tohunga)
- **Kahuna**: The Hawaiian word for an expert or priest, whose English afterlife in surf slang and New Age Huna has little to do with Hawaiian practice. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/kahuna)
- **Karakia**: A Maori chant or prayer recited to open and close gatherings, to begin work and to ask protection. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/karakia)
- **Sanguma**: A Papua New Guinean word for sorcery believed to kill, and a name at the centre of accusation violence. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/sanguma)
- **Puripuri**: A Tok Pisin word for magic and charms in Papua New Guinea, covering garden, love and fishing magic as well as sorcery. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/puripuri)
- **Kastom**: The Pidgin word for custom in Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea: the inherited ways of a place, including its ritual knowledge. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/kastom)
- **Tarot**: A deck of 78 cards that began as a card game in fifteenth-century Italy and became a tool of divination later. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/tarot)
- **Cartomancy**: Divination with cards, using ordinary playing cards, tarot or a smaller dedicated deck. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/cartomancy)
- **I Ching**: A Chinese book of 64 six-line figures, used for divination and read as philosophy for about three thousand years. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/i-ching)
- **Astragalomancy**: Divination with knucklebones, the ankle bones of sheep or goats, used as early dice. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/astragalomancy)
- **Cleromancy**: Divination by lots: stones, sticks, beans or dice thrown or drawn so that chance gives the answer. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/cleromancy)
- **Bibliomancy**: Divination by opening a book at random and reading the passage that meets the eye. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/bibliomancy)
- **Scrying**: Gazing into a polished surface, such as a crystal, a mirror or a bowl of water, in order to see visions. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/scrying)
- **Tasseography**: Divination from the shapes left by tea leaves or coffee grounds in a cup. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/tasseography)
- **Haruspicy**: Reading omens in the livers of sacrificed animals, a priestly craft of the Etruscans and Romans. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/haruspicy)
- **Extispicy**: Divination from the organs of a sacrificed animal, practised by specialist priests in ancient Mesopotamia. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/extispicy)
- **Ornithomancy**: Divination from the flight, calls and behaviour of birds, known to the Romans as taking the auspices. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/ornithomancy)
- **Geomancy**: Divination with sixteen figures of dots or lines, from the Arabic science of sand, widely used in Europe and Africa. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/geomancy)
- **Oneiromancy**: Divination from dreams, which many cultures have treated as messages from gods, ancestors or the self. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/oneiromancy)
- **Palmistry**: Reading character and fortune from the lines and shape of the hand. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/palmistry)
- **Western astrology**: The tradition of reading the sky at a person's birth, with twelve zodiac signs, planets and houses. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/western-astrology)
- **Vedic astrology**: India's system of astrology, which uses the stars' actual positions and 27 lunar mansions called nakshatras. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/vedic-astrology)
- **Chinese astrology**: A system based on the twelve-animal zodiac, the five elements and the sixty-year cycle. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/chinese-astrology)
- **Numerology**: The belief that numbers, and numbers made from letters, carry hidden meaning about people and events. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/numerology)
- **Rune casting**: Divination by drawing or throwing marked stones or tiles carved with runes, the old Germanic letters. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/rune-casting)
- **Ogham**: An early medieval Irish alphabet of strokes along an edge, now also used as a divination set. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/ogham)
- **Opele and Ifa divination**: The divining chain of the Yoruba Ifa tradition, which a babalawo casts to find one of 256 odu. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/opele)
- **Cowrie-shell reading**: Divination by throwing cowrie shells, practised in West Africa and in Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Cuban religions. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/cowrie-reading)
- **Pendulum and dowsing**: Using a swinging weight or a forked rod to find water, objects or answers. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/pendulum-dowsing)
- **Ouija and the planchette**: A board of letters and a pointer, marketed in 1890 as a parlour game, used to ask questions of spirits. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/ouija)
- **Omens**: Events taken as signs of good or bad fortune to come: a bird, a sneeze, a dream, a comet. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/omens)
- **Fal-e Hafez**: Persian divination in which a person asks a question and opens the poems of Hafez at random. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/fal-hafez)
- **Kau cim**: Chinese temple divination in which a worshipper shakes numbered sticks from a cylinder and reads the matching slip. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/kau-cim)
- **Omikuji**: Paper fortunes sold at Japanese shrines and temples, ranging from great blessing to great curse. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/omikuji)
- **Necromancy**: Seeking knowledge from the dead; in the Middle Ages the word also came to mean demonic magic in general. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/necromancy)
- **Amulet**: An object worn or kept to protect its holder, usually passive and made long before it is used. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/amulet)
- **Talisman**: A made object charged for a specific purpose, often at a chosen hour with a name or seal. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/talisman)
- **Nazar and evil-eye beads**: The blue glass eye used across the Mediterranean and beyond against the evil eye. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/nazar)
- **Hamsa**: A hand-shaped charm of North Africa and the Middle East, called the hand of Fatima or of Miriam. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/hamsa)
- **Mano cornuta and corna**: A hand sign with index and little finger raised, used in Italy to ward off the evil eye and elsewhere as an insult. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/mano-cornuta)
- **Horseshoe**: An iron shoe nailed above a door or on a ship to bring luck and keep away evil. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/horseshoe)
- **Four-leaf clover**: A rare clover with four leaflets, kept as a sign of luck since at least the seventeenth century. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/four-leaf-clover)
- **Rabbit's foot**: The foot of a rabbit or hare carried for luck, found in African American folk magic and on keyrings. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/rabbits-foot)
- **Mojo bag**: A small cloth bag of personal items and substances, carried in hoodoo to attract luck, love or protection. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/mojo-bag)
- **Gris-gris**: A small charm bag or packet, from West Africa and New Orleans, for protection or luck. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/gris-gris)
- **Witch bottle**: A sealed jar of pins, hair and other items, hidden in a house in England and America from the 1600s. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/witch-bottle)
- **Witch's ladder**: A cord with knots and feathers, reported in folklore and now used in modern witchcraft. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/witchs-ladder)
- **Poppet and the voodoo doll**: A figure made to stand for a person; the pin-stuck voodoo doll of film is mostly a European and Hollywood idea. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/poppet)
- **Dreamcatcher**: A hoop with a woven web that the Ojibwe made for children; now mass-produced, which many Native people dislike. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/dreamcatcher)
- **Omamori**: A small brocade amulet sold at Japanese shrines and temples for health, safety, exams or love. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/omamori)
- **Ofuda**: A paper or wooden talisman from a Japanese shrine or temple, kept in the home as a protective focus. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/ofuda)
- **Ema**: A small wooden plaque at Japanese shrines on which visitors write a wish or thanks. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/ema)
- **Red string**: A red cord tied on the wrist or hung as a charm, with different meanings in Jewish, Hindu and Chinese custom. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/red-string)
- **Scarab**: The dung-beetle amulet of ancient Egypt, a sign of new life and the rising sun. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/scarab)
- **Ankh**: The Egyptian sign for life, shaped like a cross with a loop, held by gods in tomb and temple art. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/ankh)
- **Eye of Horus**: The Egyptian eye of health and wholeness, from the story of Horus losing and regaining his eye. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/eye-of-horus)
- **Sator square**: A five-line Latin word square that reads the same in four directions, used as a protective charm. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/sator-square)
- **Pentagram and pentacle**: The five-pointed star, once a sign of health and Christ's wounds, now a symbol of Wicca and, inverted, of Satanism. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/pentagram)
- **Hexafoil and hex signs**: A six-petalled compass design found across Europe, and the painted star discs of Pennsylvania barns. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/hexafoil-hex-signs)
- **Galdrastafir**: Icelandic magical staves, drawn in manuscripts of the 1600s onward, meant for protection, luck and other aims. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/galdrastafir)
- **Besom**: A broom of twigs, the household tool that became the witch's emblem of flight. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/besom)
- **Cauldron**: A great pot, from Celtic myth and Macbeth to the modern witch's symbol of rebirth. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/cauldron)
- **Athame**: The ritual knife of Wicca and ceremonial magic, used to direct and mark, and not to cut. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/athame)
- **Wand**: A rod used to direct power in myth, ritual and stage magic. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/wand)
- **Mandrake**: A poisonous root of the nightshade family whose human shape fed legends of a scream and a magical power. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/mandrake)
- **Black cat**: A cat said to bring bad luck in the United States and parts of Europe and good luck in Britain and Japan. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/black-cat)
- **Iron and salt**: Two common wards: iron against fairies and spirits, salt against ill luck and harm. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/iron-and-salt)
- **Bells**: Bells rung to drive off spirits, mark ritual space or call the gods, used in Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Shinto rite. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/bells)
- **Candle customs and colours**: The flame in rite: votive and memorial candles, and the colours that traditions assign to wishes. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/candle-colours)
- **Incense**: Fragrant smoke offered to gods and used to mark a space, from Egyptian kyphi to the thurible and the joss stick. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/incense)
- **Smudging and sage**: A Native American cleansing ceremony with burning herbs, now widely copied, which many Indigenous people ask outsiders to respect. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/smudging)
- **Triple moon**: A sign of waxing, full and waning moon, taken in Wicca as the triple goddess of maiden, mother and crone. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/triple-moon)
- **Ouroboros**: A serpent or dragon eating its own tail, an emblem of cycles, return and wholeness. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/ouroboros)
- **Tree of Life**: A sacred tree in many cultures, and in Kabbalah a diagram of ten spheres by which creation is described. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/tree-of-life)
- **Endless knot**: An interlaced knot with no start or end, one of the eight auspicious signs of Buddhism. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/endless-knot)
- **Swastika**: An ancient sacred sign of good fortune in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, and since 1920 the emblem of the Nazi party. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/swastika)
- **Conjuring**: The art of performing apparent impossibilities for entertainment, from the cups and balls to the modern stage. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/conjuring)
- **Sleight of hand**: Skilled hand movement that makes a small object seem to appear, vanish or change. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/sleight-of-hand)
- **Misdirection**: The managing of an audience's attention, the central principle of stage magic. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/misdirection)
- **Pledge, turn, prestige**: The three-part structure of a classic illusion: show the ordinary, make it change, bring it back. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/pledge-turn-prestige)
- **Mentalism**: A branch of stage magic that presents apparent mind reading, prediction and influence, as entertainment. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/mentalism)
- **Levitation**: The illusion of a body floating in the air, a stage classic and a long-reported feat of saints and yogis. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/levitation)
- **Indian rope trick**: A tale of a rope that rises into the sky and a boy who climbs it, famous in the West and never reliably witnessed. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/indian-rope-trick)
- **Sawing a woman in half**: The best-known stage illusion of the twentieth century, first shown in London in 1921. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/sawing-in-half)
- **The Magic Circle and the magician's code**: Societies of magicians whose members promise not to reveal methods to the public. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/magic-circle-code)
- **Escapology**: The stage art of freeing oneself from restraints, made famous by Harry Houdini. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/escapology)
- **Close-up magic**: Magic performed at arm's length, with cards, coins and everyday objects, for a few people at a time. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/close-up-magic)
- **Pepper's ghost**: A Victorian theatre illusion that makes a ghostly figure appear on stage, still used in theatres and theme parks. (https://everyjaadu.com/concepts/peppers-ghost)

## Entries
- [Astrology](https://everyjaadu.com/m/astrology), India: A divinatory practice that reads human fate through the positions of celestial bodies.
- [Vampire](https://everyjaadu.com/m/vampire), Serbia: An undead creature from folklore that feeds on the blood or life force of the living
- [King Arthur](https://everyjaadu.com/m/king-arthur), United Kingdom: A legendary British king and folk hero of medieval literature and Welsh mythology
- [Sphinx](https://everyjaadu.com/m/sphinx), Egypt: A mythical hybrid with a human head and lion body, serving as guardian or riddler in Egyptian and Greek traditions.
- [Werewolf](https://everyjaadu.com/m/werewolf), France: A mythical shapeshifter that turns into a wolf, central to European witch-hunts and Gothic horror.
- [Lilith](https://everyjaadu.com/m/lilith), Egypt: A feminine figure from Mesopotamian and Jewish mythology, often depicted as a night demon or spirit.
- [Curse](https://everyjaadu.com/m/curse), Egypt: A spoken wish for misfortune to befall a person or place
- [Horseshoe](https://everyjaadu.com/m/horseshoe), Belgium: A metal shoe for a horse's hoof and a talisman of good fortune
- [Holy Grail](https://everyjaadu.com/m/holy-grail), France: A cup or stone from Arthurian tales that grants healing and eternal life
- [Palmistry](https://everyjaadu.com/m/palmistry), India: A divination method that interprets the lines and shapes of the hand to predict fate or reveal character.
- [Amulet](https://everyjaadu.com/m/amulet), Egypt: A portable object worn or carried to ward off harm and invite fortune
- [Chakra](https://everyjaadu.com/m/chakra), India: Meditation points in the subtle body used in Hindu and Buddhist yoga
- [Chinese dragon](https://everyjaadu.com/m/chinese-dragon), China: A legendary water deity and imperial symbol in East Asian culture
- [Evil eye](https://everyjaadu.com/m/evil-eye), Turkey: A curse believed to be cast by a jealous glare and the charms used to stop it
- [Fortuna](https://everyjaadu.com/m/fortuna), Italy: The Roman goddess of luck and fate, shown with a wheel and a horn of plenty
- [Soul dualism](https://everyjaadu.com/m/soul-dualism), Estonia: A belief that a person contains two or more distinct kinds of souls
- [Kitsunetsuki](https://everyjaadu.com/m/kitsunetsuki), Japan: A Japanese folk belief in which a fox spirit enters and controls a human host.
- [Torsåker witch trials](https://everyjaadu.com/m/torsaker-witch-trials), Sweden: The largest mass execution of witches in Swedish history, carried out in a single day.
- [Witch trials in Poland](https://everyjaadu.com/m/witch-trials-in-poland), Poland: A historical record of sorcery prosecutions and executions in Poland from the 15th to the 19th century.
- [Valais witch trials](https://everyjaadu.com/m/valais-witch-trials), Switzerland: The first systematic European witch-hunt, beginning in the Valais region of Switzerland in 1428.
- [Trial by combat](https://everyjaadu.com/m/trial-by-combat), Ireland: A medieval legal practice where two disputants fought to settle a case
- [Black magic](https://everyjaadu.com/m/black-magic), Russia: Magic traditionally defined by malevolent intent and selfish purposes
- [Samlesbury witches](https://everyjaadu.com/m/samlesbury-witches), United Kingdom: Three Lancashire women acquitted in a 1612 trial linked to anti-Catholic propaganda
- [Pricking](https://everyjaadu.com/m/pricking), United Kingdom: A method used to locate a witch's mark during early modern European witch trials
- [Paisley witches](https://everyjaadu.com/m/paisley-witches), United Kingdom: A 1697 Scottish witch trial ending in mass execution after a child's illness sparked local panic.
- [Jet](https://everyjaadu.com/m/jet-gemstone), United Kingdom: A black gemstone carved into amulets and mourning jewellery for centuries
- [Orphism](https://everyjaadu.com/m/orphism), Greece: A Greek mystery tradition based on the myth of Dionysus and the soul's journey
- [Witch trials in early modern Scotland](https://everyjaadu.com/m/witch-trials-in-early-modern-scotland), United Kingdom: A period of judicial persecution where thousands were executed for alleged sorcery and diabolic pacts
- [Nostradamus](https://everyjaadu.com/m/nostradamus), France: A French astrologer and physician known for a book of poetic prophecies
- [Traditional Berber religion](https://everyjaadu.com/m/berber-traditional-religion), Libya: Ancient beliefs of Northwest Africa centered on celestial bodies, caves, and ancestors.
- [Éliphas Lévi](https://everyjaadu.com/m/eliphas-levi), France: A French writer who shaped modern occult thought and ceremonial magic.
- [Book of Thoth](https://everyjaadu.com/m/book-of-thoth), Egypt: A collection of ancient Egyptian texts attributed to the god of writing and knowledge.
- [Soul flight](https://everyjaadu.com/m/soul-flight), Sweden: A trance practice where the spirit leaves the body to visit other realms
- [Alp](https://everyjaadu.com/m/alp), Germany: A Germanic spirit that presses on sleepers and drinks milk
- [Matthew Hopkins](https://everyjaadu.com/m/matthew-hopkins), United Kingdom: The English witch-hunter who led the deadliest wave of executions in Britain.
- [Trial by ordeal](https://everyjaadu.com/m/trial-by-ordeal), India: An ancient judicial test where guilt or innocence was decided by surviving a painful physical trial.
- [Key of Solomon](https://everyjaadu.com/m/key-of-solomon), Italy: A Renaissance grimoire attributed to King Solomon, detailing ritual preparations and invocations.
- [Indian rope trick](https://everyjaadu.com/m/indian-rope-trick), India: A legendary stage illusion involving a levitating rope and a disappearing boy assistant
- [Witch trials in the Holy Roman Empire](https://everyjaadu.com/m/witch-trials-in-the-holy-roman-empire), Germany: A wave of executions across Central Europe between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries.
- [Salem Witch Trials](https://everyjaadu.com/m/salem-witch-trials), United States: A colonial legal crisis where over two hundred people faced accusations of sorcery in Massachusetts.
- [Babylonian astrology](https://everyjaadu.com/m/babylonian-astrology), Iraq: The first organized system of celestial divination in the ancient Near East
- [Myomancy](https://everyjaadu.com/m/myomancy), Egypt: A divination practice that reads omens in the actions of rats and mice
- [Chinese alchemy](https://everyjaadu.com/m/chinese-alchemy), China: A Taoist pursuit of longevity through elixirs and internal cultivation
- [Curse of the pharaohs](https://everyjaadu.com/m/curse-of-the-pharaohs), Egypt: A belief that disturbing ancient Egyptian tombs brings illness or death to the living.
- [Witch trials in Norway](https://everyjaadu.com/m/witch-trials-in-norway), Norway: A wave of executions and legal persecution for sorcery in early modern Norway.
- [Mora witch trial](https://everyjaadu.com/m/mora-witch-trial), Sweden: A 1669 Swedish mass execution driven by child testimony and European hysteria
- [Witch trials in Hungary](https://everyjaadu.com/m/witch-trials-in-hungary), Hungary: A centuries-long series of persecutions for sorcery that ended with imperial decree.
- [Witch trials in the Netherlands](https://everyjaadu.com/m/witch-trials-in-the-netherlands), Netherlands: A historical record of prosecutions and executions for sorcery in the Dutch Republic.
- [Witch trials in France](https://everyjaadu.com/m/witch-trials-in-france), France: A fragmented history of legal persecution for sorcery across French regions and centuries.
- [Bideford witch trial](https://everyjaadu.com/m/bideford-witch-trial), United Kingdom: The final English hangings for witchcraft in 1682.
- [Gu](https://everyjaadu.com/m/gu-poison), China: A venom-based poison and black magic practice from south China
- [Obsidian](https://everyjaadu.com/m/obsidian), Mexico: Volcanic glass used for sharp tools, mirrors, and ritual divination
- [Baetyl](https://everyjaadu.com/m/baetyl), Syria: A sacred stone, often a meteorite, believed to house a deity in ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean traditions.
- [Caul](https://everyjaadu.com/m/caul), Russia: A birth membrane kept as a talisman for luck and protection from drowning
- [Witch trials in England](https://everyjaadu.com/m/witch-trials-in-england), United Kingdom: A historical period of legal persecution for alleged sorcery in England from the 15th to the 18th century
- [Sympathetic magic](https://everyjaadu.com/m/sympathetic-magic), South Africa: A magical principle based on imitation and contact to influence the world
- [Kykeon](https://everyjaadu.com/m/kykeon), Greece: An Ancient Greek ritual drink linked to the Eleusinian Mysteries and peasant life
- [Witch trials in Latvia and Estonia](https://everyjaadu.com/m/witch-trials-in-latvia-and-estonia), Estonia: Early modern persecutions of sorcery and paganism by Baltic German authorities
- [Cernunnos](https://everyjaadu.com/m/cernunnos), France: An antlered Celtic deity depicted with torcs and serpents, known from Roman-era Gaul.
- [Cotton Mather](https://everyjaadu.com/m/cotton-mather), United States: A Puritan minister and writer known for his role in the Salem witch trials and promotion of smallpox inoculation
- [Scarab](https://everyjaadu.com/m/scarab-artifact), Egypt: A carved beetle amulet and seal used in ancient Egypt for protection, identity, and ritual.
- [Witch trials in Finland](https://everyjaadu.com/m/witch-trials-in-finland), Finland: A historical record of legal persecution for magic in a region where men were common targets.
- [Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin](https://everyjaadu.com/m/jean-eugene-robert-houdin), France: A French clockmaker who elevated stage magic into a refined theatrical art.
- [Johannes Junius](https://everyjaadu.com/m/johannes-junius), Germany: Mayor of Bamberg executed in the witch trials, known for a letter to his daughter
- [Child sacrifice](https://everyjaadu.com/m/child-sacrifice), Mexico: The ritual killing of children to appease deities or restore cosmic order in ancient cultures
- [Lia Fáil](https://everyjaadu.com/m/lia-fail), Ireland: A standing stone at the Hill of Tara used for royal inaugurations in Irish legend
- [Witch trials in Denmark](https://everyjaadu.com/m/witch-trials-in-denmark), Sweden: A history of legal executions and local panics against sorcery in early modern Denmark.
- [Soma](https://everyjaadu.com/m/soma-drink), Iran: A sacred ritual drink of the ancient Vedic religion and its Iranian counterpart
- [Silver bullet](https://everyjaadu.com/m/silver-bullet), Sweden: A folk weapon for monsters and a metaphor for simple solutions
- [Heliotrope](https://everyjaadu.com/m/heliotrope-bloodstone), India: A green and red mineral stone used as an amulet for health, invisibility, and courage.
- [Kapalika](https://everyjaadu.com/m/kapalika), India: A medieval Indian Shaivite ascetic order known for wearing skulls and transgressive rituals
- [Pashupata Shaivism](https://everyjaadu.com/m/pashupata-shaivism), India: An early Hindu ascetic school focused on liberation through ritual and devotion to Shiva
- [Yogini](https://everyjaadu.com/m/yogini), India: A female master of yoga and tantra, or a fierce goddess aspect in Indian temples.
- [Black Shuck](https://everyjaadu.com/m/black-shuck), United Kingdom: A ghostly black dog from East Anglia folklore, often seen as a death omen or a terrifying apparition.
- [Naming taboo](https://everyjaadu.com/m/naming-taboo), China: A cultural rule against speaking or writing the names of rulers and ancestors in East Asia
- [Fetch](https://everyjaadu.com/m/fetch), Ireland: A spectral double of a living person, seen as an omen of death or long life.
- [Kitsunebi](https://everyjaadu.com/m/kitsunebi), Japan: Atmospheric ghost lights in Japanese folklore, often linked to foxes and natural phenomena.
- [Inugami](https://everyjaadu.com/m/inugami), Japan: A Japanese spirit of dog possession and folk sorcery
- [Magic and religion](https://everyjaadu.com/m/magic-and-religion), Egypt: A study of how ritual power and sacred belief overlap or separate across cultures
- [Number of the beast](https://everyjaadu.com/m/number-of-the-beast), Israel: A biblical number linked to a prophetic figure and interpreted through ancient letter values.
- [Satanic panic](https://everyjaadu.com/m/satanic-panic), United States: A moral panic over unsubstantiated claims of Satanic cults abusing children in the late twentieth century
- [Ebers Papyrus](https://everyjaadu.com/m/ebers-papyrus), Egypt: An ancient Egyptian medical scroll detailing herbal remedies and bodily theories from around 1550 BCE.
- [Phantasmagoria](https://everyjaadu.com/m/phantasmagoria), Germany: A horror theatre using magic lanterns to project frightening images in the dark
- [Anubis](https://everyjaadu.com/m/anubis), Egypt: The jackal-headed god who guides souls and oversees mummification in ancient Egypt.
- [Ancient Egyptian afterlife beliefs](https://everyjaadu.com/m/ancient-egyptian-afterlife-beliefs), Egypt: A system of rituals and texts guiding the soul through the underworld to eternal rebirth
- [Dendera zodiac](https://everyjaadu.com/m/dendera-zodiac), Egypt: A carved Egyptian sky map now held in a Paris museum
- [Egyptian Hall](https://everyjaadu.com/m/egyptian-hall), United Kingdom: A London exhibition hall known for magic shows and Egyptian-style architecture, demolished in 1905.
- [Davenport brothers](https://everyjaadu.com/m/davenport-brothers), United States: A pair of American stage magicians who performed spirit cabinet illusions in the late nineteenth century.
- [Waidan](https://everyjaadu.com/m/waidan), China: An early Chinese alchemical practice focused on compounding mineral elixirs for immortality
- [Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai](https://everyjaadu.com/m/hyakumonogatari-kaidankai), Japan: An Edo period Japanese parlour game where ghost stories extinguish candles one by one
- [Papyrus Graecus Holmiensis](https://everyjaadu.com/m/papyrus-graecus-holmiensis), Egypt: A third-century Egyptian manuscript of craft and alchemical recipes written in Greek
- [Leyden papyrus X](https://everyjaadu.com/m/leyden-papyrus-x), Egypt: A third-century Greek manuscript of alchemical and metallurgical recipes
- [Three Books of Occult Philosophy](https://everyjaadu.com/m/three-books-of-occult-philosophy), France: A Renaissance treatise on elemental, celestial and divine magic
- [Hermetica](https://everyjaadu.com/m/hermetica), Egypt: A collection of ancient texts attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, covering magic, alchemy and philosophy.
- [Upiór](https://everyjaadu.com/m/upior), Russia: A demonic spirit from Slavic and Turkic folklore that is believed to return from the dead to feed on the living.
- [Corpus Hermeticum](https://everyjaadu.com/m/corpus-hermeticum), Egypt: A collection of Greek writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus that shaped Western esoteric thought
- [The Kybalion](https://everyjaadu.com/m/the-kybalion), United States: A 1908 book presenting seven principles of mental philosophy as ancient Hermetic wisdom
- [Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz](https://everyjaadu.com/m/chymical-wedding-of-christian-rosenkreutz), Germany: An allegorical romance and Rosicrucian manifesto detailing a seven-day alchemical initiation.
- [Sibylline Oracles](https://everyjaadu.com/m/sibylline-oracles), Egypt: A mixed collection of ancient prophecies attributed to pagan prophetesses but shaped by Jewish and Christian writers.
- [Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses](https://everyjaadu.com/m/sixth-and-seventh-books-of-moses), Germany: A grimoire claiming to reveal the hidden spells of Moses for controlling spirits and nature
- [Papyrus of Ani](https://everyjaadu.com/m/papyrus-of-ani), Egypt: A decorated Egyptian scroll for the afterlife, held in London
- [Lemuria](https://everyjaadu.com/m/lemuria-festival), Italy: An ancient Roman festival to send restless ghosts away from the home
- [Belial](https://everyjaadu.com/m/belial), Israel: A Hebrew term for worthlessness that evolved into a demon of darkness in Jewish and Christian texts.
- [Buatier De Kolta](https://everyjaadu.com/m/buatier-de-kolta), France: A French stage magician known for mechanical illusions and the vanishing chair.
- [Servais Le Roy](https://everyjaadu.com/m/servais-le-roy), Belgium: A Belgian magician who designed classic illusions and performed in a famous trio act.
- [Ching Ling Foo](https://everyjaadu.com/m/ching-ling-foo), China: A Chinese stage magician who toured the United States and Europe in the late nineteenth century
- [Harry Price](https://everyjaadu.com/m/harry-price), United Kingdom: A British psychic researcher and conjurer who investigated paranormal claims and exposed fraudulent mediums.
- [Isaac Fawkes](https://everyjaadu.com/m/isaac-fawkes), United Kingdom: An English conjurer who moved magic from the fairground to fashionable London society.
- [Directorium Inquisitorum](https://everyjaadu.com/m/directorium-inquisitorum), Spain: A 14th-century manual for inquisitors on heresy, magic, and trial procedure
- [Malleus Maleficarum](https://everyjaadu.com/m/malleus-maleficarum), Germany: A 15th-century manual on witchcraft written by Heinrich Kramer
- [Eusapia Palladino](https://everyjaadu.com/m/eusapia-palladino), Italy: An Italian medium whose séances were investigated by leading scientists and magicians in the late nineteenth century.
- [Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers](https://everyjaadu.com/m/samuel-liddell-macgregor-mathers), United Kingdom: British occultist and co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- [Harry Kellar](https://everyjaadu.com/m/harry-kellar), United States: An American illusionist known for large-scale stage magic and mechanical tricks.
- [Chen Tuan](https://everyjaadu.com/m/chen-tuan), China: A Chinese Taoist sage known for internal arts and sleep cultivation methods
- [Alexander Herrmann](https://everyjaadu.com/m/alexander-herrmann), France: A 19th-century magician known for sleight of hand and card throwing
- [Howard Thurston](https://everyjaadu.com/m/howard-thurston), United States: A stage magician who built the largest traveling magic show in history
- [John Nevil Maskelyne](https://everyjaadu.com/m/john-nevil-maskelyne), United Kingdom: A Victorian magician who exposed fraud and invented the pay toilet
- [Chung Ling Soo](https://everyjaadu.com/m/chung-ling-soo), United States: An American stage magician who performed as a Chinese man and died during a bullet catch illusion.
- [David Devant](https://everyjaadu.com/m/david-devant), United Kingdom: English magician and early film exhibitor known for witty stage presentation
- [William Lilly](https://everyjaadu.com/m/william-lilly), United Kingdom: A seventeenth-century English astrologer and author who shaped Western tradition.
- [Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi](https://everyjaadu.com/m/abu-ma-shar-al-balkhi), Afghanistan: A Persian astrologer whose manuals shaped medieval European and Islamic celestial studies
- [Mother Shipton](https://everyjaadu.com/m/mother-shipton), United Kingdom: An English prophetess and herbalist from folklore, known for predictions printed long after her death.
- [Count of St. Germain](https://everyjaadu.com/m/count-of-st-germain), France: An 18th-century European adventurer known for alchemy, music, and claims of immortality.
- [Franz Anton Mesmer](https://everyjaadu.com/m/franz-mesmer), Germany: A German physician who proposed a universal fluid of natural energy and founded mesmerism.
- [Nicholas Culpeper](https://everyjaadu.com/m/nicholas-culpeper), United Kingdom: An English herbalist and astrologer who translated medical texts into English for the poor.
- [Witch bottle](https://everyjaadu.com/m/witch-bottle), United Kingdom: A container filled with personal items and sharp objects to trap harmful magic
- [Edward Kelley](https://everyjaadu.com/m/edward-kelley), United Kingdom: An English occultist and scryer who worked with John Dee to contact angels and practice alchemy.
- [Marsilio Ficino](https://everyjaadu.com/m/marsilio-ficino), Italy: A Renaissance priest and philosopher who revived Plato and blended astrology with Christian theology.
- [Michael Sendivogius](https://everyjaadu.com/m/michael-sendivogius), Poland: A Polish alchemist who discovered oxygen and wrote on the 'food of life'
- [Basil Valentine](https://everyjaadu.com/m/basil-valentine), Germany: A pseudonymous alchemist whose chemical writings shaped early modern chemistry and hermetic tradition.
- [Jabir ibn Hayyan](https://everyjaadu.com/m/jabir-ibn-hayyan), Iran: A legendary Islamic alchemist and philosopher whose writings shaped medieval magic and chemistry
- [Icelandic magical staves](https://everyjaadu.com/m/icelandic-magical-staves), Iceland: Sigils from Icelandic grimoires believed to hold magical power
- [Maslama al-Majriti](https://everyjaadu.com/m/maslama-al-majriti), Spain: A tenth-century scholar of alchemy and astronomy in Islamic Spain.
- [Sator Square](https://everyjaadu.com/m/sator-square), Italy: A five-word Latin palindrome found in Roman ruins and medieval churches
- [En no Gyōja](https://everyjaadu.com/m/en-no-gyoja), Japan: A legendary Japanese ascetic and founder of Shugendō mountain practice
- [Kūkai](https://everyjaadu.com/m/kukai), Japan: Founder of Shingon Buddhism who brought Vajrayana esoteric practices from China to Japan.
- [Need-fire](https://everyjaadu.com/m/need-fire), Germany: A ritual fire lit by friction to protect livestock and people from disease and witchcraft
- [Pietro d'Abano](https://everyjaadu.com/m/pietro-d-abano), Italy: A medieval physician and astrologer accused of heresy and magic.
- [Cunning folk](https://everyjaadu.com/m/cunning-folk), United Kingdom: European practitioners of folk medicine and helpful magic from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century
- [Jiang Ziya](https://everyjaadu.com/m/jiang-ziya), China: A historical strategist and war god who helped establish the Zhou dynasty
- [Zhang Jue](https://everyjaadu.com/m/zhang-jue), China: A Taoist leader who used healing magic to spark a major rebellion in ancient China.
- [Ge Hong](https://everyjaadu.com/m/ge-hong), China: A Jin dynasty scholar and alchemist who wrote key texts on Taoist immortality and early medicine.
- [Kamo no Yasunori](https://everyjaadu.com/m/kamo-no-yasunori), Japan: A Heian-era onmyōji and teacher of Abe no Seimei in Japanese esoteric arts
- [Imhotep](https://everyjaadu.com/m/imhotep), Egypt: An ancient Egyptian architect deified as a god of healing and wisdom
- [Khaemweset](https://everyjaadu.com/m/khaemweset), Egypt: A prince and priest remembered for restoring ancient Egyptian monuments.
- [Jannes and Jambres](https://everyjaadu.com/m/jannes-and-jambres), Egypt: Named Egyptian magicians who opposed Moses in biblical tradition
- [Zoroaster](https://everyjaadu.com/m/zoroaster), Iran: Spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism and composer of the Gathas
- [Tilopa](https://everyjaadu.com/m/tilopa), India: A tenth-century Buddhist tantric master who transmitted Mahamudra and the Six Yogas of Naropa.
- [Naropa](https://everyjaadu.com/m/naropa), India: An Indian Buddhist master whose teachings shaped Tibetan Vajrayana practice
- [Djedi](https://everyjaadu.com/m/djedi), Egypt: A fictional magician from the Westcar Papyrus who resurrects animals and foretells a king's lineage.
- [Lan Caihe](https://everyjaadu.com/m/lan-caihe), China: An ambiguous Taoist immortal known for a flower basket and wandering songs
- [Cumaean Sibyl](https://everyjaadu.com/m/cumaean-sibyl), Italy: The priestess of the Apollonian oracle at Cumae, famous in Roman legend for her prophetic books and underworld guidance.
- [Huldra](https://everyjaadu.com/m/hulder), Norway: A seductive forest spirit of Scandinavian folklore with a hidden animal tail.
- [Trauco](https://everyjaadu.com/m/trauco), Chile: A small forest spirit from Chiloé mythology known for seducing women and causing pregnancy
- [Prester John](https://everyjaadu.com/m/prester-john), Ethiopia: A legendary Christian king and priest said to rule a lost kingdom in the East.
- [Penanggalan](https://everyjaadu.com/m/penanggalan), Malaysia: A floating head with trailing organs from Malay folklore, said to hunt pregnant women and newborns.
- [Fountain of Youth](https://everyjaadu.com/m/fountain-of-youth), India: A legendary spring said to reverse aging and cure illness, appearing in myths across the world.
- [Pied Piper of Hamelin](https://everyjaadu.com/m/pied-piper-of-hamelin), Germany: A medieval legend about a piper who leads children away from the town of Hamelin
- [Rangda](https://everyjaadu.com/m/rangda), Indonesia: A Balinese demon queen who leads witches in an eternal battle against good.
- [Excalibur](https://everyjaadu.com/m/excalibur), United Kingdom: The mythical sword of King Arthur, symbolizing rightful sovereignty and magical power.
- [Baba Yaga](https://everyjaadu.com/m/baba-yaga), Russia: A Slavic witch who lives in a turning hut and flies in a mortar
- [Zhang Guolao](https://everyjaadu.com/m/zhang-guolao), China: A Taoist immortal known for his white donkey and fish drum, said to be a bat spirit.
- [Grootslang](https://everyjaadu.com/m/grootslang), South Africa: A legendary serpent from South Africa said to guard diamonds in a deep cave.
- [Oni](https://everyjaadu.com/m/oni), Japan: A horned demon of Japanese folklore known for strength and evil deeds
- [Chullachaqui](https://everyjaadu.com/m/chullachaki), Peru: A one-footed forest spirit of the Amazon that lures or challenges humans
- [White Lady](https://everyjaadu.com/m/white-lady), Brazil: A female ghost in white clothing linked to tragedy and omens across many cultures
- [Fuath](https://everyjaadu.com/m/fuath), United Kingdom: A class of malevolent water spirits in Scottish and Irish folklore
- [Kuda-gitsune](https://everyjaadu.com/m/kuda-gitsune), Japan: A small spirit kept in a tube or sleeve to aid fortune-telling and cursing in Japanese folklore.
- [Xiezhi](https://everyjaadu.com/m/xiezhi), China: A one-horned beast from East Asia that separates the guilty from the innocent
- [Hyakki Yagyō](https://everyjaadu.com/m/hyakki-yagyo), Japan: A Japanese folklore concept of a night parade of supernatural creatures
- [Nicolas Flamel](https://everyjaadu.com/m/nicolas-flamel), France: A medieval scribe turned legendary alchemist and immortal in fiction
- [Tamamo-no-Mae](https://everyjaadu.com/m/tamamo-no-mae), Japan: A nine-tailed fox spirit from Japanese legend who possessed emperors and concubines across Asia.
- [Michael Scot](https://everyjaadu.com/m/michael-scot), United Kingdom: A medieval scholar and astrologer who became a legendary magician in folklore.
- [Helm of Awe](https://everyjaadu.com/m/helm-of-awe), Iceland: A feared helm of Norse myth, and a name for an Icelandic stave
- [Cao Guojiu](https://everyjaadu.com/m/cao-guojiu), China: A Taoist immortal who abandoned his court career to help the poor and learn magic.
- [He Xiangu](https://everyjaadu.com/m/he-xiangu), China: A female immortal from Chinese Taoist legend known for divination and lotus magic
- [Ashiya Dōman](https://everyjaadu.com/m/ashiya-doman), Japan: A legendary Heian onmyōji known for his rivalry with Abe no Seimei and his use of curses
- [Myrddin Wyllt](https://everyjaadu.com/m/myrddin-wyllt), United Kingdom: A wild prophet of Welsh legend who inspired the wizard Merlin
- [Morgause](https://everyjaadu.com/m/morgause), United Kingdom: A legendary queen of Orkney and sister to King Arthur in British myth
- [Cassandra](https://everyjaadu.com/m/cassandra), Greece: A Trojan priestess cursed to speak truth that no one accepts
- [Orpheus](https://everyjaadu.com/m/orpheus), Greece: A Thracian bard whose music charms nature and who journeys to the underworld
- [Tarot](https://everyjaadu.com/m/tarot), Italy: A set of playing cards used for games and divination
- [Kolam](https://everyjaadu.com/m/kolam), India: A daily geometric floor drawing made with rice flour at the home entrance in South India
- [Homa](https://everyjaadu.com/m/homa), India: A fire ritual found across Asian religions where offerings are burned as a votive exchange with the divine.
- [Ancestor veneration in China](https://everyjaadu.com/m/ancestor-veneration-in-china), China: Rites for dead kin who are thought to watch over the family
- [Wild rue](https://everyjaadu.com/m/peganum-harmala), Morocco: A desert plant whose seeds hold psychoactive alkaloids and serve as incense in the Middle East.
- [Rachel's Tomb](https://everyjaadu.com/m/rachel-s-tomb), Palestine: A shared holy site near Bethlehem revered by Jews, Christians, and Muslims
- [Orunmila](https://everyjaadu.com/m/orunmila), Nigeria: Yoruba deity of wisdom and the creator of the Ifá divination system
- [St John's Eve](https://everyjaadu.com/m/saint-john-s-eve), Spain: A Christian vigil marked by bonfires and plant gathering on the summer solstice eve
- [Cornicello](https://everyjaadu.com/m/cornicello), Italy: A twisted horn charm worn in Italy to ward off the evil eye and invite luck.
- [Eight Immortals](https://everyjaadu.com/m/eight-immortals), China: Eight legendary Taoist figures of China, each with a power and a vessel
- [Crossroads (folklore)](https://everyjaadu.com/m/crossroads), Greece: A junction between worlds where spirits are met and deals are made
- [Metamorphosis](https://everyjaadu.com/m/metamorphosis-illusion), United Kingdom: A stage illusion where a magician and assistant instantly swap places inside a locked container.
- [Panchagavya](https://everyjaadu.com/m/panchagavya), India: A fermented mixture of five cow products used in Hindu rituals and Ayurvedic traditions.
- [Mantra](https://everyjaadu.com/m/mantra), India: A sacred sound or phrase repeated to focus the mind and invoke spiritual power
- [Mugwort](https://everyjaadu.com/m/artemisia-vulgaris), Ukraine: An aromatic herb used in folk medicine, cooking, and magical protection across Eurasia.
- [Precious coral](https://everyjaadu.com/m/precious-coral), Italy: A marine skeleton harvested for jewelry and worn as a protective charm in several cultures
- [Ceridwen](https://everyjaadu.com/m/ceridwen), United Kingdom: A Welsh enchantress and modern goddess of poetic inspiration and transformation.
- [Death knell](https://everyjaadu.com/m/death-knell), United Kingdom: A church bell rung to announce a person's death and mark the funeral.
- [Famadihana](https://everyjaadu.com/m/famadihana), Madagascar: A Malagasy ritual to rewrap ancestors and celebrate their return to the spirit world
- [Braucherei](https://everyjaadu.com/m/braucherei), United States: A Pennsylvania German folk healing tradition using prayers and gestures to cure illness and remove curses.
- [Folk healer](https://everyjaadu.com/m/folk-healer), United States: An unlicensed community member who provides healing care using local plants and traditional knowledge.
- [Charmer](https://everyjaadu.com/m/charmer), United Kingdom: English folk healers who used gifts or verses to treat natural ailments without charge
- [Isis](https://everyjaadu.com/m/isis), Egypt: Egyptian goddess of magic, mourning and kingship, mother of Horus
- [Ahmad al-Buni](https://everyjaadu.com/m/ahmad-al-buni), Algeria: A medieval Sufi scholar known for works on letter mysticism and talismans
- [Daniel Dunglas Home](https://everyjaadu.com/m/daniel-dunglas-home), United Kingdom: A Scottish physical medium known for levitation and spirit communication during the Victorian era.
- [Horace Goldin](https://everyjaadu.com/m/horace-goldin), United States: A stage magician known for his fast style and the sawing illusion.
- [Joseph Pinetti](https://everyjaadu.com/m/joseph-pinetti), Italy: An eighteenth-century magician who brought illusion to the theatre and pioneered stage advertising.
- [Kispu](https://everyjaadu.com/m/kispu), Iraq: An ancient Mesopotamian ritual to feed and honour the dead ancestors
- [Luoshu Square](https://everyjaadu.com/m/luoshu-square), China: An ancient Chinese three-by-three magic square linked to geomancy and numerology
- [Gazu Hyakki Yagyō](https://everyjaadu.com/m/gazu-hyakki-yagyo), Japan: A 1776 Japanese woodblock book of yōkai illustrations by Toriyama Sekien
- [Padmasambhava](https://everyjaadu.com/m/padmasambhava), India: A tantric master credited with establishing Buddhism in Tibet and founding the Nyingma school.
- [Magic circle](https://everyjaadu.com/m/magic-circle), Switzerland: A ritual boundary drawn or visualised to create sacred space and protection
- [Hoodoo](https://everyjaadu.com/m/hoodoo), United States: A spiritual tradition of the African diaspora in the American South using herbs and charms for protection and justice.
- [Florida Water](https://everyjaadu.com/m/florida-water), United States: A citrus perfume used in spiritual cleansing and folk healing across the Americas.
- [Papa Legba](https://everyjaadu.com/m/papa-legba), Benin: A loa who stands at the crossroads and opens the gate between people and spirits
- [Fire eating](https://everyjaadu.com/m/fire-eating), India: A performance art of extinguishing flames in the mouth
- [Onmyōdō](https://everyjaadu.com/m/onmyodo), Japan: A Japanese system of divination and calendar science rooted in yin-yang philosophy
- [Seiðr](https://everyjaadu.com/m/sei-r), Iceland: A Norse magic of fate and spirit, practiced by seers and sorcerers in the Viking Age.
- [Corn dolly](https://everyjaadu.com/m/corn-dolly), United Kingdom: A woven straw figure made from the last sheaf of a European harvest to house the crop spirit.
- [Beltane](https://everyjaadu.com/m/beltane), Ireland: A Gaelic festival marking the start of summer with protective bonfires and livestock rituals
- [Aradia](https://everyjaadu.com/m/aradia), Italy: A figure of Italian folklore and modern pagan witchcraft, seen as a teacher of magic and liberation.
- [Siberian shamanism](https://everyjaadu.com/m/shamanism-in-siberia), Russia: The spirit-journey practices of North Asian peoples and their linguistic relatives
- [Amber](https://everyjaadu.com/m/amber), Russia: Fossilized tree resin used in jewelry and folk healing traditions
- [Libation](https://everyjaadu.com/m/libation), Egypt: The ritual pouring of liquid as an offering to spirits or the dead
- [Spirit house](https://everyjaadu.com/m/spirit-house), Thailand: A small roofed shrine that shelters a place's protective spirit
- [Aleister Crowley](https://everyjaadu.com/m/aleister-crowley), United Kingdom: English occultist and founder of the religion of Thelema
- [Ashtamangala](https://everyjaadu.com/m/ashtamangala), India: A set of eight sacred symbols used in Indian religions to mark auspicious occasions and teach spiritual truths.
- [Magi](https://everyjaadu.com/m/magi), Iran: Priests of Zoroastrianism and the figures who inspired the word for magic
- [La Llorona](https://everyjaadu.com/m/la-llorona), Mexico: A vengeful ghost in Hispanic American folklore who mourns drowned children near water.
- [Preta](https://everyjaadu.com/m/preta), India: A suffering spirit of insatiable hunger found in Asian religious traditions
- [Tsagaan Sar](https://everyjaadu.com/m/tsagaan-sar), Mongolia: A Mongol lunisolar new year marked by white clothes and dairy feasts
- [Punxsutawney Phil](https://everyjaadu.com/m/punxsutawney-phil), United States: A groundhog who serves as the central figure in an annual American weather prediction festival.
- [Mojo bag](https://everyjaadu.com/m/mojo-bag), United States: A cloth pouch holding charms for protection, luck, or love in the Hoodoo tradition.
- [Incense](https://everyjaadu.com/m/incense), Sudan: Aromatic plant materials burned to release fragrant smoke for ritual, scent, or timekeeping.
- [Wiccan Rede](https://everyjaadu.com/m/wiccan-rede), United Kingdom: A moral guideline for Wiccans stating that actions should cause no harm.
- [Witch-hunts in Papua New Guinea](https://everyjaadu.com/m/witch-hunts-in-papua-new-guinea), Papua New Guinea: Violent attacks on people accused of sorcery, mainly women and girls
- [Nyepi](https://everyjaadu.com/m/nyepi), Indonesia: A Balinese day of total silence, fasting, and self-reflection to mark the new year.
- [Sak Yant](https://everyjaadu.com/m/yantra-tattooing), Cambodia: A Southeast Asian tattoo tradition using sacred geometry for protection and power
- [Theyyam](https://everyjaadu.com/m/theyyam), India: A ritual dance from Kerala where performers embody deities through elaborate costume and song
- [Alakshmi](https://everyjaadu.com/m/alakshmi), India: A Hindu goddess of misfortune and the shadow opposite to Lakshmi
- [Haitian Vodou](https://everyjaadu.com/m/haitian-vodou), Haiti: An Afro-Haitian religion blending West African traditions with Catholicism and Freemasonry
- [Ogoh-ogoh](https://everyjaadu.com/m/ogoh-ogoh), Indonesia: Balinese sculptures paraded and burned to cleanse the environment before Nyepi
- [Ezili Dantor](https://everyjaadu.com/m/ezili-dantor), Haiti: A fierce mother spirit in Haitian Vodou who protects the marginalized and demands loyalty.
- [Jinn](https://everyjaadu.com/m/jinn), Iran: Supernatural beings in Islamic and pre-Islamic Arabian belief, created from smokeless fire.
- [Triple Goddess](https://everyjaadu.com/m/triple-goddess-neopaganism), Greece: A Neopagan deity representing three female life stages and lunar phases
- [Tantra](https://everyjaadu.com/m/tantra), India: An esoteric yogic tradition from India focusing on ritual, mantra, and body-based spiritual practices.
- [Nkisi](https://everyjaadu.com/m/nkisi), Republic of the Congo: Spirit containers and power figures from the Congo Basin used for justice and healing
- [Abakuá](https://everyjaadu.com/m/abakua), Cuba: A male-only Cuban religious fraternity with West African roots and strict secrecy
- [Quimbanda](https://everyjaadu.com/m/quimbanda), Brazil: An Afro-Brazilian religion focused on male and female street spirits for worldly matters
- [Kavu](https://everyjaadu.com/m/kavu), India: Sacred forest patches in South India that protect local deities and wildlife
- [Hindu astrology](https://everyjaadu.com/m/hindu-astrology), India: A traditional Hindu system of astrology and timekeeping rooted in the Vedas
- [San La Muerte](https://everyjaadu.com/m/san-la-muerte), Argentina: A skeletal folk saint venerated in South America for protection and favors
- [Baku](https://everyjaadu.com/m/baku), Japan: A Japanese spirit said to eat bad dreams and protect sleepers
- [Groundhog Day](https://everyjaadu.com/m/groundhog-day), United States: A North American custom using a burrowing rodent to forecast the end of winter
- [Friday the 13th](https://everyjaadu.com/m/friday-the-13th), United States: A Western superstition marking a specific calendar date as unlucky.
- [Vegetalismo](https://everyjaadu.com/m/vegetalismo), Peru: A mestizo healing tradition in the Peruvian Amazon that draws power from plants and spirits.
- [Navagraha](https://everyjaadu.com/m/navagraha), India: A group of nine celestial deities in Hinduism that govern fate and astrology
- [Matsyendranath](https://everyjaadu.com/m/matsyendranatha), Nepal: A yogi and rain deity revered across Hindu and Buddhist traditions in South Asia.
- [Witchcraft in Latin America](https://everyjaadu.com/m/witchcraft-in-latin-america), Mexico: A syncretic blend of Indigenous, African, and European magical practices across Latin America
- [Omikuji](https://everyjaadu.com/m/o-mikuji), Japan: Paper fortunes drawn at Japanese shrines and temples to reveal luck and life advice
- [Sikidy](https://everyjaadu.com/m/sikidy), Madagascar: An algebraic geomancy practiced by Malagasy peoples using seeds to read fate and prescribe remedies
- [Bomoh](https://everyjaadu.com/m/bomoh), Malaysia: A Malay shaman and traditional healer who works with spirits, herbs, and geomancy.
- [Fulu](https://everyjaadu.com/m/fulu), China: Taoist talismans with cryptic symbols used for healing and protection
- [Reliquary](https://everyjaadu.com/m/reliquary), France: A container for sacred remains or objects, crafted across many faiths
- [Relic](https://everyjaadu.com/m/relic), Italy: An object or body part kept to honor a holy person and mark their connection to the divine
- [Azande witchcraft](https://everyjaadu.com/m/azande-witchcraft), South Sudan: A Zande belief that certain people harm others by an inherited power, judged by oracles
- [Albularyo](https://everyjaadu.com/m/albularyo), Philippines: A Filipino folk healer who uses herbs, massage, and prayer to treat illness
- [Ghost Festival](https://everyjaadu.com/m/ghost-festival), China: A festival to feed wandering spirits and guide them home during the seventh lunar month.
- [Joss paper](https://everyjaadu.com/m/joss-paper), China: Paper burned as money and goods for ancestors, gods and the dead
- [Haoma](https://everyjaadu.com/m/haoma), Iran: A divine plant and spirit in Zoroastrianism, linked to healing and ancient rituals.
- [Amrita](https://everyjaadu.com/m/amrita), India: A Sanskrit concept of immortality and the nectar that grants it across Indian religions
- [Taniwha](https://everyjaadu.com/m/taniwha), New Zealand: Supernatural beings of Māori lore, acting as guardians or dangerous predators in water and earth
- [Amethyst](https://everyjaadu.com/m/amethyst), Brazil: A violet quartz variety used in jewelry and historically believed to ward off intoxication
- [Bagua](https://everyjaadu.com/m/bagua), China: A set of eight trigram symbols from China used in divination, cosmology, and feng shui.
- [Santería](https://everyjaadu.com/m/santeria), Cuba: An Afro-Cuban religion blending Yoruba beliefs with Catholicism and Spiritism
- [Tattoo](https://everyjaadu.com/m/tattoo), Australia: A permanent mark made by placing pigment under the skin to form a design.
- [Bhuta Kola](https://everyjaadu.com/m/buta-kola), India: A Tulu folk dance and ritual where spirits are channelled into human performers
- [Enochian magic](https://everyjaadu.com/m/enochian-magic), United Kingdom: A Renaissance system of ceremonial magic based on angelic revelations recorded by John Dee and Edward Kelley.
- [Mediumship](https://everyjaadu.com/m/mediumship), United States: The practice of mediating communication between the living and spirits of the dead.
- [Witchcraft in Ghana](https://everyjaadu.com/m/witchcraft-in-ghana), Ghana: Beliefs in harmful magic and the social violence that follows accusations in Ghana
- [Moon blocks](https://everyjaadu.com/m/jiaobei), China: Two crescent blocks thrown to a deity for a yes or no
- [Cairn](https://everyjaadu.com/m/cairn), Ireland: A human-made stack of stones used as a marker, memorial, or religious symbol across many cultures.
- [Kindoki](https://everyjaadu.com/m/kindoki), Democratic Republic of the Congo: A belief in spirit possession that leads to abuse and abandonment in the Congo region
- [Rangoli](https://everyjaadu.com/m/rangoli), India: Floor art made with coloured powders and flowers to welcome guests and deities
- [Lakshmi](https://everyjaadu.com/m/lakshmi), India: A Hindu goddess of wealth, prosperity, and beauty, worshipped as the consort of Vishnu.
- [Kau chim](https://everyjaadu.com/m/kau-chim), China: A divination practice using numbered bamboo sticks to seek answers from deities
- [Murder for body parts](https://everyjaadu.com/m/murder-for-body-parts), South Africa: The killing of people to harvest body parts for traditional medicine or the illegal organ trade.
- [Telling the bees](https://everyjaadu.com/m/telling-the-bees), United Kingdom: A Western European custom of informing bees about major household events
- [Yantra](https://everyjaadu.com/m/yantra), India: A geometric diagram from Indian traditions used for worship and meditation
- [Spirit possession](https://everyjaadu.com/m/spirit-possession), India: A global belief that spirits or demons can take control of a person's body and mind
- [Hamsa](https://everyjaadu.com/m/hamsa), Egypt: A palm-shaped amulet used across North Africa and the Middle East to ward off harm.
- [Qi](https://everyjaadu.com/m/qi), China: A vital force in Chinese philosophy and medicine, believed to flow through all living things.
- [Philippine mythology](https://everyjaadu.com/m/philippine-mythology), Philippines: The indigenous myths and spirits of the Philippines, shaped by centuries of trade and colonial contact.
- [Californian white sage](https://everyjaadu.com/m/salvia-apiana), United States: A California shrub used by Indigenous peoples for food, healing, and ritual cleansing
- [Feng shui](https://everyjaadu.com/m/feng-shui), China: A Chinese geomantic practice for aligning structures with cosmic energy
- [Turquoise](https://everyjaadu.com/m/turquoise), Iran: An opaque blue-green gemstone prized for its color since ancient times
- [Setsubun](https://everyjaadu.com/m/setsubun), Japan: A Japanese seasonal rite to drive away bad luck and welcome spring with roasted beans
- [Rowan](https://everyjaadu.com/m/rowan), United Kingdom: A Northern Hemisphere tree believed to ward off witches and protect travellers.
- [Bay Laurel](https://everyjaadu.com/m/laurus-nobilis), Greece: An aromatic Mediterranean plant used in cooking and as a symbol of victory and purification.
- [Misogi](https://everyjaadu.com/m/misogi), Japan: A Shinto rite of full-body purification using cold water
- [Omamori](https://everyjaadu.com/m/omamori), Japan: Japanese amulets from shrines and temples for luck and protection
- [Shinto shrine](https://everyjaadu.com/m/shinto-shrine), Japan: A structure housing kami deities within the Shinto tradition of Japan
- [Ofuda](https://everyjaadu.com/m/ofuda), Japan: Paper and wooden talismans from Japanese Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples
- [Ovoo](https://everyjaadu.com/m/ovoo), Mongolia: A stone or branch cairn used as a shrine and boundary marker in Mongolic folk practice.
- [Korean shamanism](https://everyjaadu.com/m/mu-shaman), South Korea: A traditional practice of ritual specialists who mediate between the human and spirit worlds.
- [Korean shamanism](https://everyjaadu.com/m/korean-shamanism), South Korea: A Korean folk religion centered on ritual specialists who mediate between humans and spirits
- [Mongolian shamanism](https://everyjaadu.com/m/mongolian-shamanism), Mongolia: The animistic and shamanic ethnic religion of the Mongol peoples, centered on sky worship and ancestral spirits.
- [Pili Yesa](https://everyjaadu.com/m/pili-yesa), India: A coastal Karnataka folk dance where performers paint themselves as tigers to honour the Goddess Durga
- [Siddhi](https://everyjaadu.com/m/siddhi), India: Magical powers and spiritual attainments in Indian religions
- [Prayer beads](https://everyjaadu.com/m/prayer-beads), Dominica: Beaded strings used to count prayers and mantras across many world religions
- [Kundalini](https://everyjaadu.com/m/kundalini), India: A dormant energy in Hinduism believed to rise through the spine for spiritual liberation
- [Mani stone](https://everyjaadu.com/m/mani-stone), Nepal: Carved stones inscribed with Buddhist mantras, placed as offerings along paths in the Himalayas.
- [Nazar battu](https://everyjaadu.com/m/nazar-battu), India: A charm or deliberate flaw used in South Asia to ward off the evil eye.
- [Bindi](https://everyjaadu.com/m/bindi), India: A dot worn on the forehead to mark spiritual focus and cultural identity
- [Kumkum](https://everyjaadu.com/m/kumkuma), India: A red powder made from turmeric and lime, used in Hindu markings and rituals
- [Daayan](https://everyjaadu.com/m/dayan-witch), India: A vengeful female spirit from Indian folklore, often blamed for misfortune and witchcraft accusations.
- [Upanayana](https://everyjaadu.com/m/upanayana), India: A Hindu rite of passage marking a student's initiation into formal education and spiritual discipline.
- [Witch-hunts in India](https://everyjaadu.com/m/witch-hunts-in-india), India: Violent persecution of people accused of witchcraft, mostly women, in rural India
- [Sarnaism](https://everyjaadu.com/m/sarnaism), India: A tribal faith centered on nature worship and sacred groves in eastern India
- [Islamic exorcism](https://everyjaadu.com/m/exorcism-in-islam), Saudi Arabia: A rite to expel spirits through Quranic recitation and negotiation
- [Chaharshanbe Suri](https://everyjaadu.com/m/chaharshanbe-suri), Iran: An Iranian fire festival marking the transition from winter to spring
- [Zār](https://everyjaadu.com/m/zar), Egypt: A spirit possession tradition and healing ritual in the Horn of Africa and Middle East
- [Nowruz](https://everyjaadu.com/m/nowruz), Iran: A spring equinox festival marking the new year across Persianate cultures
- [Tetragrammaton](https://everyjaadu.com/m/tetragrammaton), Israel: The four-letter name of God in the Hebrew Bible, written as YHWH.
- [Gnawa music](https://everyjaadu.com/m/gnawa-music), Morocco: Moroccan ritual music blending West African heritage with Islamic practice for healing and trance
- [Finnic mythologies](https://everyjaadu.com/m/finnic-mythologies), Finland: The traditional beliefs and spiritual practices of the Finnic-speaking peoples of northern Eurasia.
- [Hidden-folk](https://everyjaadu.com/m/huldufolk), Iceland: Supernatural beings in Nordic folklore who live in a parallel world within the landscape.
- [Frankincense](https://everyjaadu.com/m/frankincense), Somalia: An aromatic tree resin harvested for incense, perfume, and religious ritual
- [Witch doctor](https://everyjaadu.com/m/witch-doctor), South Africa: A traditional healer who identifies supernatural causes of illness and performs rituals to restore balance.
- [Tetraphobia](https://everyjaadu.com/m/tetraphobia), China: The avoidance of the number four due to its similarity to the word for death in East Asian languages
- [Red string](https://everyjaadu.com/m/red-string-kabbalah), Israel: A scarlet wool bracelet worn to ward off the evil eye and bring good luck
- [Shell game](https://everyjaadu.com/m/shell-game), Greece: A street swindle using covered containers to hide a marker while taking bets
- [Card throwing](https://everyjaadu.com/m/card-throwing), India: The performance art of launching playing cards with speed and precision as stage magic.
- [Sword swallowing](https://everyjaadu.com/m/sword-swallowing), Australia: A dangerous stage skill where a performer guides a blade down the throat into the stomach
- [Face tattoo](https://everyjaadu.com/m/face-tattoo), New Zealand: Marks inked on the face for spiritual protection, identity, rank, and rite of passage
- [International Brotherhood of Magicians](https://everyjaadu.com/m/international-brotherhood-of-magicians), Canada: A global organization for professional and amateur magicians founded in 1922.
- [Sawing a woman in half](https://everyjaadu.com/m/sawing-a-woman-in-half), United Kingdom: A stage illusion where an assistant appears to be cut into pieces inside a box or on a table
- [Society of American Magicians](https://everyjaadu.com/m/society-of-american-magicians), United States: A global professional group for magicians that preserves the art and ethics of stage illusion
- [Ifá](https://everyjaadu.com/m/ifa), Nigeria: A Yoruba divination system using palm nuts to access spiritual guidance
- [Ancestor worship](https://everyjaadu.com/m/ancestor-worship), India: Rites of respect for the dead that maintain family bonds and seek spiritual guidance
- [Neidan](https://everyjaadu.com/m/neidan), China: A Taoist practice using the body as a cauldron to refine inner energies for longevity and immortality
- [Duende](https://everyjaadu.com/m/duende), Spain: A humanoid spirit of Iberian and Latin American folklore, ranging from household pranksters to forest guardians.
- [Bardo Thodol](https://everyjaadu.com/m/bardo-thodol), France: A Tibetan Buddhist guide for navigating the intermediate state between death and rebirth.
- [Traditional healers of Southern Africa](https://everyjaadu.com/m/traditional-healers-of-southern-africa), South Africa: Practitioners who blend herbal medicine with ancestral divination in Southern Africa
- [Ancestor veneration](https://everyjaadu.com/m/veneration-of-the-dead), Senegal: Rituals of respect and offerings for the dead across many cultures
- [Ukuthwasa](https://everyjaadu.com/m/ukuthwasa), South Africa: A spiritual calling and initiation process for traditional healers in Southern Africa.
- [Bori](https://everyjaadu.com/m/hausa-animism), Nigeria: A traditional Hausa spirit possession system and healing practice in West Africa
- [Mami Wata](https://everyjaadu.com/m/mami-wata), Nigeria: A water spirit of beauty and wealth in African folklore and the Atlantic diaspora
- [Rain Queen](https://everyjaadu.com/m/rain-queen), South Africa: A hereditary queen of the Balobedu people believed to control rainfall in South Africa
- [Rainmaking](https://everyjaadu.com/m/rainmaking), United States: Efforts to induce rain through technology, ritual, or prayer.
- [Midsummer](https://everyjaadu.com/m/midsummer), Sweden: A summer solstice festival marked by bonfires, maypole dancing, and feasting across Europe.
- [Bonfire](https://everyjaadu.com/m/bonfire), Ireland: A large outdoor fire used in seasonal festivals and religious feasts across many cultures
- [Walpurgis Night](https://everyjaadu.com/m/walpurgis-night), Germany: A spring vigil marking the eve of Saint Walpurga's feast day with bonfires and student festivals
- [Maypole](https://everyjaadu.com/m/maypole), Germany: A tall wooden pole raised for European spring festivals, accompanied by dance and celebration.
- [Samhain](https://everyjaadu.com/m/samhain), Ireland: A Gaelic festival marking the end of harvest and the start of winter, observed on November 1st.
- [Halloween](https://everyjaadu.com/m/halloween), Ireland: A Christian vigil on 31 October for the dead, now marked by costumes and carved vegetables
- [Sacred dance](https://everyjaadu.com/m/sacred-dance), Egypt: Movement used in worship to honour deities, heal communities, or connect with the spirit world.
- [Emanuel Swedenborg](https://everyjaadu.com/m/emanuel-swedenborg), Sweden: An 18th-century Swedish scientist who became a mystic and claimed to visit the afterlife.
- [First-foot](https://everyjaadu.com/m/first-foot), United Kingdom: The first visitor on New Year's Day, believed to set the household's fortune for the year ahead
- [Knocking on wood](https://everyjaadu.com/m/knocking-on-wood), Iran: A gesture of tapping wood to ward off bad luck or prevent tempting fate
- [Blarney Stone](https://everyjaadu.com/m/blarney-stone), Ireland: A limestone block in an Irish castle kissed for the gift of eloquence
- [Ibn Arabi](https://everyjaadu.com/m/ibn-arabi), Spain: A medieval Andalusian mystic and philosopher whose teachings shaped Sufi metaphysics across the Islamic world.
- [Slavic folklore](https://everyjaadu.com/m/slavic-folklore), Russia: The traditional beliefs and stories of the Slavic peoples
- [Gorakhnath](https://everyjaadu.com/m/gorakhnath), India: A Hindu yogi and saint who founded the Nath monastic order in India.
- [Evil eye bead (sample)](https://everyjaadu.com/m/fx-evil-eye-bead), United Kingdom: A blue glass bead hung to turn aside envy.
- [Witch bottle (sample)](https://everyjaadu.com/m/fx-witch-bottle), United Kingdom: A stoppered bottle set out against curses.
- [Vodou veve (sample)](https://everyjaadu.com/m/fx-vodou-veve), Haiti: Ground drawings that call the lwa.
- [Omamori (sample)](https://everyjaadu.com/m/fx-omamori), Japan: A small shrine charm in a brocade pouch.
- [Baba Yaga (sample)](https://everyjaadu.com/m/fx-baba-yaga), Greece: A witch of Slavic tales who lives in a hut on legs.
- [Hamsa (sample)](https://everyjaadu.com/m/fx-hamsa), Turkey: An open hand with an eye, hung on doors.
- [Ifa divination (sample)](https://everyjaadu.com/m/fx-ifa), Nigeria: A system of verses and divining chains.
- [Grimoire (sample)](https://everyjaadu.com/m/fx-grimoire), United Kingdom: A handbook of rites and names.
- [Rune casting (sample)](https://everyjaadu.com/m/fx-runes), United Kingdom: Carved signs drawn from a bag.
- [New moon cleansing (sample)](https://everyjaadu.com/m/fx-new-moon-rite), India: Smoke and water used to mark a lunar month.
- [Sawing a lady in half (sample)](https://everyjaadu.com/m/fx-sawing-lady), United States: A famous stage effect, described without its method.
- [Tarot (sample)](https://everyjaadu.com/m/fx-tarot), United Kingdom: A deck of cards read for guidance.