Occasions
Weddings, festivals, births, funerals, harvests, the new year, initiations, crises, journeys and the everyday: when a practice is done.
Weddings and betrothalBlessings, protection against envy and the rites that bind two families.13FestivalsSamhain, Nowruz fire, Day of the Dead, Walpurgis night and the other days of the magic calendar.39Birth and childhoodProtecting the newborn, naming rites and the charms hung over a cradle.9Death and remembranceGuiding, honouring and warding the dead, and the rites of mourning.17Harvest, farming and weatherRainmaking, the first fruits, and charms for field and flock.2New yearFire, first-footing, divination for the year and the clearing of the old.13Initiation and coming of ageThe rites by which someone enters a priesthood, a society or adulthood.7Illness and misfortuneWhat people do when someone falls ill or luck turns: consult, cleanse, ward.28Journeys and voyagesCharms for the road, the sea and the pilgrimage.8Everyday useSmall habits kept at home: the horseshoe, the salt over the shoulder, the evil-eye bead.69