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Daisy Wheel, Hexfoil, Hexafoil, Rosette

Protective Marks in Gravestone Art

Robyn S. Lacy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-663-5 (ISBN)

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The use of protective symbols, also known as apotropaic marks, are often part of folk magic traditions, appearing in homes, churches, on personal items, and even graves, across Europe, Australia, and North America. The most common and well-known of these marks is the hexfoil, otherwise known as the daisy wheel, witch hex, or rosette. Hexfoils have a history of use for personal protection and were carved both intentionally or graffitied into church pews and walls, bed frames, doors, and gravestones. This research sheds light on the use of this historic symbol to protect the bodies and souls of the deceased, across several thousand years and multiple countries.

Robyn S. Lacy earned her PhD in Archaeology at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. She runs a historic gravestone preservation business with her husband in Newfoundland which takes them all across the island and beyond. Her first book Burial and Death in Colonial North America was published in 2020, and she regularly writes about her research on her website, spadeandthegrave.com.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Protective Marks & Objects

Chapter 2. Hexfoils in a Mortuary Context

Chapter 3. The Reformation and Medieval Magics

Chapter 4. Survey of Protective Marks on Gravestones

Chapter 5. Results of Survey

Chapter 6. Modern Interpretations of the Hexfoil and other Protective Marks

Chapter 7. Protective Marks on Gravestones – Past and Present

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Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2024
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-663-3 / 1805396633
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-663-5 / 9781805396635
Zustand	Neuware