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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 4 - The magical protection of buildings

Hidden Charms 4 took place on Saturday 15th April 2023 at The National Centre for Early Music in York.

The Hidden Charms 4 book is now available HERE.

Speakers were as follows:
Brian Hoggard - Witch-bottles: A re-appraisal.
Rosie Barrett - Three Witchposts: Interpreting stories of witchcraft in the North York Moors.
Anthea Hawdon - A Dictionary of Symbols - Clog almanacs as a resource for interpreting graffiti and protective marks.
Tony Hack - Lacock Abbey: A need for protection.
Dr Petra Schad - The Secret of Mummified Cats: Archaeological finds and written sources.
Val Thomas - Inspiration and Adaptation: Old Charms in Modern Magical Practice.
Robyn Lacy - Daisy Wheel, Hexfoil, Hexfoil, Rosette: Protective Marks in a Mortuary Context.
Marc Robben - Signs in brick masonry in GB.

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