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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 3 - The magical protection of buildings

Hidden Charms 3 took place on Saturday 2nd October 2021 at St Mary's Creative Space in Chester.

The Hidden Charms 3 book is now available HERE.
The Proceedings of the Hidden Charms 3 conference are available free of charge via Academia.edu here.

Speakers were as follows:
Brian Hoggard - Horse skulls and their use in magic. 
Debora Moretti - Rethinking the perception of magic and rituals in archaeological contexts: A threefold dialogue between field archaeologists, academics and the public.
Jeremy Harte - Arrow sharpening marks.
Jeannine Woods - Hiding in plain sight: Pagan protection rituals in popular Christian celebrations of Bríd/Brigid in Ireland.
Linda Wilson - Circles and a Square: magical protection at the Maison Forte de Reignac, a fortified dwelling in the Dordogne region of France.
Chris Wood - 'X Marks the Post' - the use of the X as an apotropaic symbol.
Jason Semmens - Witchcraft and Counter-magic in the early twentieth-century Cornwall.
Marc Robben - Apotropaic traces on building components - beyond function and decoration.
James Wright - Tower of Strength: Buildings archaeology, ritual protection graffiti and the use of apotropaic motifs in elite architecture.

Poster presentations for this event:
Chris Wood - 'X Marks the Post' - the use of the X as an apotropaic symbol.

Andy Bentham - ' Where there's muck there's magic - Apotropaic and other graffiti in Peak District farm buildings'.
Linda Wilson - '
NOTRE-DAME DE TEMNIAC: Hidden treasures on a 19th century altar back'.
Anthea Hawdon - 'Merels: Game, Graffiti, Symbol'.

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