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The Green Knight arrives at Arthur's court carrying an axe, an object that makes his challenge impossible to mistake for ordinary courtly entertainment. In Sir Gawain and the
Open archive record →Folklorist Edward Lovett collected charms and amulets from working people in late Victorian and Edwardian London. His collections demonstrate that lucky and protective objects were not confined to an imagined isolated rural past. Urbanisation…
Open archive record →A string threaded with feathers, found in a Somerset attic in the nineteenth century, became famous after being interpreted as a so-called “witch’s ladder”. Even early scholarly discussion acknowledged uncertainty about what the object…
Open archive record →Written charms could be folded, enclosed in small bags or otherwise carried close to the body against illness, misfortune or feared supernatural harm. In this form, words became portable material objects rather than texts…
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