Sources and photo credits
EveryJaadu stands on the work of volunteers and scholars who document the world's beliefs and customs in the open.
Wikimedia projects
Wikidata (public domain, CC0) and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) supply the names, facts and structure. Every entry and country overview links to the article and the record it was written from. Wikimedia Commons supplies the photos.
Wording and attribution
EveryJaadu does not copy text. Pages take their facts from the Wikipedia article named at the foot of each page and are rewritten in EveryJaadu's own words. A check compares each page with its source; a page that carries over more than a short phrase is rewritten before it is shown. Because the pages are adapted from Wikipedia, they credit the article and its contributors, link to the original, and are shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Scholarship
Where a page reports how scholars read a practice, it draws on the fields that study it and says which: anthropology and the study of religion, folklore and history, the history of science and medicine, psychology and the cognitive science of belief, legal history and the history of witch trials, and the history of conjuring and stage illusion. The articles listed under "Good reading" on a page are ones its Wikipedia article cites, from publishers and institutions such as university presses, museums, Britannica and national broadcasters. EveryJaadu shows the headline and the publisher and links to the original; it does not copy the article. Sceptical investigation, including the work of sceptics' societies and magicians who test claims, is cited as one view and described as such.
Photos
Only freely licensed images are used: public domain, CC0, CC BY and CC BY-SA. Each photo on an entry page is credited beside it with its author and licence and links to its page on Commons. Small pictures in lists, cards and strips are credited at the foot of the page they appear on, under "Photo credits on this page". Photos may be resized; no other changes are made. Where a photo shows a living person or a sacred ceremony we prefer images made with consent, and if a photo is yours or you think it should not be here, write to us and it will be taken down.
Drawings
The emblems, the fifteen drawn shapes (eye, hand, moon, star, key, flame, candle, cards, crystal, circle, knot, feather, book, bottle and stone), the vitality strip, the rite rings and the twelve step frames are drawn by EveryJaadu's own code from what each page says. Where no free photo exists, a drawing stands in for it. They are diagrams, free to reuse with a link back. No AI image generator is used.
Rites, the calendar, places and concepts
Original text and drawings by the EveryJaadu desk, written with AI assistance. A rite is an outline of a custom, not instruction. Festival dates are worked out by rule where one exists and otherwise taken from published calendars; days that follow the moon or a local calendar are marked "about" and can shift by a day.
Belief, practice and medicine
Where a page describes what a practice is said to do, it reports the belief, with its source, and does not endorse it. It is not medical advice.
Map
Country outlines are from Natural Earth (public domain). Places of magic are marked at the middle of the town or site.
News
The news wire shows only a headline and the outlet's name. Every link leads to the original publisher.
Typefaces
Newsreader and Geist, both under the SIL Open Font License.
If something is wrong
Write to everymagic@cleartrust.cc and it will be fixed quickly.