{"id":79,"date":"2019-04-13T20:03:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T04:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sourcememory.net\/maxdashu\/?p=79"},"modified":"2019-04-13T20:03:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T04:03:53","slug":"where-no-beast-roars-charms-to-banish-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sourcememory.net\/maxdashu\/where-no-beast-roars-charms-to-banish-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Where no beast roars: charms to banish illness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sourcememory.net\/maxdashu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/saint.jpg?resize=404%2C299&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80\" width=\"404\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sourcememory.net\/maxdashu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/saint.jpg?resize=1024%2C758&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sourcememory.net\/maxdashu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/saint.jpg?resize=300%2C222&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sourcememory.net\/maxdashu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/saint.jpg?resize=768%2C568&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sourcememory.net\/maxdashu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/saint.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first meaning of &#8220;charm&#8221; is chant or incantation. We look at healing charms from Romania, Spain, Finland, and Bulgaria and how imagery is used to dispell illness from the body-soul. <br><br>The first example of this I found is from Romania, where &#8220;the Mother of God orders the pain to leave the patient, banishing the &#8220;lords and ladies of disease&#8221; with this command, uttered through the healer&#8217;s voice: &#8220;Go and hide where black cocks never crow, where men never go, where no beast roars.&#8221; [Leland 1891: 37]<br><br>In a Bulgarian version, the illnesses caused by the evil eye are &#8220;scattered like foam over the sea, like rain over the plain, like wind through the forest; may they go to distant wilderness, where no stork builds its nest, where no swallow ever sings, where no dog ever barks.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The healer Maria la Medina (convicted of witchcraft by the Spanish Inquisition) smoked her patients with herbs while repeating the verse, &#8220;Go there, evil, to the part of the sea, where neither cock nor hen crows; don&#8217;t stay in this house, in this home.&#8221; <br><br>More examples in this audio stream, which also talks about rites with water and fire in conjunction with the charms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.sourcememory.net\/maxdashu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/WhereNoBeastRoars.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Max Dashu on charmers, baiatchki, and healing by incantation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first meaning of &#8220;charm&#8221; is chant or incantation. We look at healing charms from Romania, Spain, Finland, and Bulgaria and how imagery is used to dispell illness from the body-soul. The first example of this I found is from Romania, where &#8220;the Mother of God orders the pain to leave the patient, banishing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,19,18,20],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bulgaria","tag-charms","tag-healing","tag-incantation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sourcememory.net\/maxdashu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/saint.jpg?fit=2100%2C1554&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourcememory.net\/maxdashu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourcememory.net\/maxdashu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourcememory.net\/maxdashu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourcememory.net\/maxdashu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourcememory.net\/maxdashu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourcememory.net\/maxdashu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourcememory.net\/maxdashu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourcememory.net\/maxdashu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourcememory.net\/maxdashu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourcememory.net\/maxdashu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourcememory.net\/maxdashu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}