Monthly Archive: December, 2019

MAGONIA REVIEW: HOUSEHOLD INSURANCE

New Post has been published on https://wiccadelphia.com/?p=1301 MAGONIA REVIEW: HOUSEHOLD INSURANCE Brian Hoggard. Magical House Protection, the Archaeology of Counter-Witchcraft. Berghahn, 2019. I learnt a new word reading this book: apotropaic, which is defined as “having the ability to ward off evil”, from the Greek αποτρέπειν, to ward off; from απο- ‘away’ and τρέπειν ‘to turn’) This is the term...

New Philly Podcast Turns up the Volume on Local History

New Philly Podcast Turns up the Volume on Local History Funding for Found in Philadelphia, which is currently in production, comes from a Charles E. Peterson Fellowship, which is administered through the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Peterson established the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and was an important figure in the restoration and development of Independence National Historic Park and the...