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  • Home
    • Brian Hoggard
    • Contact
    • Media work
    • Lectures
    • Some further reading
    • Dorset Survey
    • Ralph Merrifield
    • Links
  • SHOP
  • Hidden Charms Conference
    • 2025 Hidden Charms 5
    • 2023 Hidden Charms 4
    • 2021 Hidden Charms 3
    • 2018 Hidden Charms 2
    • 2016 Hidden Charms 1
  • Concealed Objects
    • Witch Bottles
    • Shoes >
      • Concealed Shoes - an article by June Swann
    • Dried Cats
    • Horse Skulls
    • Written Charms
  • Protection Marks
    • Circles and daisy-wheels
    • Deliberate burn marks
    • Marian Marks >
      • Goatchurch Cavern marks
    • Mesh marks
    • Hand and shoe outlines

Hidden Charms 2 - The magical protection of buildings

Hidden Charms 2 took place on Saturday 21st April 2018 at The Medieval Hall, Cathedral Close, Salisbury.

The Proceedings of this first Hidden Charms conference are available free of charge via Academia.edu here.
For some videos from the Hidden Charms conferences please follow this link. 

Speakers were as follows:
Brian Hoggard - Case Study – Llancaiach Fawr.
Adina Hulubas - A View on Active Construction Rites from Romania.
Cheryl Cooper - Ampullae and their Protective Functions: Magic, Medicine or Religion?
Paula McBride - Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Magical Protection of Buildings in the Midlands.
John Billingsley - Soft Power: the emergence of modern apotropaics in Albania.
Tabitha Cadbury - Materialising Magic in Museums.
Peter Hewitt - Witch Bottles: findings from the Museum of Witchcraft & Magic.
Sonja Hukantaival - Why sharp tools, vipers and cats? – The agency of objects and materials in the Finnish pre-mechanistic worldview.
Walter Richard Wheeler - Magical Dwelling: Apotropaic Practices in the New World Dutch Cultural Hearth.

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