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Author : Christina Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781902418285
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (182 download)
Download or read book Holy Wells of the British Isles written by Christina Martin and published by . This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Rattue
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780851158488
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (584 download)
Download or read book The Living Stream written by James Rattue and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first general history of wells and their religious and cultural associations. The author begins in ancient times, exploring the archetypal motifs present in the cult of water. He then goes on to trace the development of holy wells in England.
Author : Cuming Walters
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781425368814
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (688 download)
Download or read book Holy Wells written by Cuming Walters and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Arthur Gribben
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815308317
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Holy Wells and Sacred Water Sources in Britain and Ireland written by Arthur Gribben and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1992 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists and briefly describes books and articles about holy wells and other sacred water in the British Isles, including works from at least as far back as the 18th century. The main listing is alphabetical by author; the index is topical. A substantial introduction explores the importance of water i
Author : Janet Bord
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sacred Waters written by Janet Bord and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christina Martin
Publisher : Wooden
ISBN 13 : 9781904263456
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (634 download)
Download or read book Sacred Springs written by Christina Martin and published by Wooden. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a county-by-county gazeteer, this beautiful book, illustrated throughout by the author, tells the story of the holy waters of the British Isles through hand-picked examples.
Author : Gary R. Varner
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0875867189
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Sacred Wells written by Gary R. Varner and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Wells is an in depth study of springs, wells and waters that have been venerated from California to Cornwall, Russia to Australia. Tales of faeries, black hounds, hauntings and miraculous cures are explored. Many of these sites are still locations for religious festivals and ritual, unchanging for hundreds of years. The book is illustrated with photos taken by the author.
Author : Brendan O'Malley
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1848256353
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Holy Wells written by Brendan O'Malley and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pilgrimages to holy wells were common in medieval Christendom, and are becoming increasingly popular today. This resource offers a wide variety of prayers and simple liturgies for use at holy wells, an introduction to their history and significance, and a guide – with GPS references – to the principal sites in England, Wales and Scotland.
Author : Robert Charles Hope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells of England written by Robert Charles Hope and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ceri Houlbrook
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331975517X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book The Magic of Coin-Trees from Religion to Recreation written by Ceri Houlbrook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of ritual landscapes in the British Isles, and the transition from religious practice to recreation, by focusing on a highly understudied exemplar: the coin-tree. These are trees imbued with magical properties into which coins have been ritually embedded. This is a contemporary custom which can be traced back in the literature to the 1700s, when it was practiced for folk-medical and dedicatory purposes. Today, the custom is widespread, with over 200 coin-trees distributed across the British Isles, but is more akin to the casual deposition of coins in a wishing-well: coins are deposited in the tree in exchange for wishes, good luck, or future fortune. Ceri Houlbrook contributes to the debate on the historic relationships between religion, ritual, and popular magic in British contexts from 1700 to the present.
Author : Celeste Ray
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784910457
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book The Origins of Ireland’s Holy Wells written by Celeste Ray and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-01-19 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-assesses archaeological research into holy well sites in Ireland and the evidence for votive deposition at watery sites throughout northwest European prehistory.
Author : Ian Bradley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441167676
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Water: A Spiritual History written by Ian Bradley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water has long been associated with the magical, the mysterious and the divine. From sacred springs to holy wells, and from hydropathic cures and temperance reform to the modern spa, Ian Bradley explores how water's creative, health-giving and restorative powers have been conceived, worshipped and marketed in an essentially spiritual way. In pre-Christian times, springs and rivers were seen as the dwelling places of deities with magical life-giving and curative powers, associated especially with the feminine and with ritual cleansing and rebirth. With the coming of Christianity, water was incorporated into Christian ritual and tradition through baptism and the cult of holy wells. From the 16th century onwards, the benefits of water came to be seen more in terms of therapeutic healing than the miraculous. Through the development of drinking and bathing cures, spas and hydrotherapy, a more scientific but still essentially spiritual understanding of the curative properties of water was developed. By the eighteenth century, spas and watering places had acquired their own enchanted and mysterious qualities, in many ways taking the place of medieval pilgrim shrines. Now, a new, more hedonistic kind of pilgrim comes to modern spas to experience a potent post-modern elixir of self-oriented well-being.
Author : Natalie Armitage
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785700111
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)
Download or read book The Materiality of Magic written by Natalie Armitage and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of ‘magic’ has long been considered peripheral and sensationalist, the word itself having become something of an academic taboo. However, beliefs in magic and the rituals that surround them are extensive – as are their material manifestations – and to avoid them is to ignore a prevalent aspect of cultures worldwide, from prehistory to the present day. The Materiality of Magic addresses the value of the material record as a resource in investigations into magic, ritual practices, and popular beliefs. The chronological and geographic focuses of the papers presented here vary from prehistory to the present-day, including numinous interpretations of fossils and ritual deposits in Bronze Age Europe; apotropaic devices in Roman and Medieval Britain; the evolution of superstitions and ritual customs – from the ‘voodoo doll’ of Europe and Africa to a Scottish ‘wishing-tree’; and an exploration of spatiality in West African healing practices. The objectives of this collection of nine papers are twofold. First, to provide a platform from which to showcase innovative research and theoretical approaches in a subject which has largely been neglected within archaeology and related disciplines, and, secondly, to redress this neglect. The papers were presented at the 2012 Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference in Liverpool.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Discovery written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Yorke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317868315
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Conversion of Britain written by Barbara Yorke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Britain of 600-800 AD was populated by four distinct peoples; the British, Picts, Irish and Anglo-Saxons. They spoke 3 different languages, Gaelic, Brittonic and Old English, and lived in a diverse cultural environment. In 600 the British and the Irish were already Christians. In contrast the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons and Picts occurred somewhat later, at the end of the 6th and during the 7th century. Religion was one of the ways through which cultural difference was expressed, and the rulers of different areas of Britain dictated the nature of the dominant religion in areas under their control. This book uses the Conversion and the Christianisation of the different peoples of Britainas a framework through which to explore the workings of their political systems and the structures of their society. Because Christianity adapted to and affected the existing religious beliefs and social norms wherever it was introduced, it’s the perfect medium through which to study various aspects of society that are difficult to study by any other means.
Author : Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Recent Geographical Literature, Maps and Photographs written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Recent Geographical Literature, Maps, and Photographs Added to the Society's Collection written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
