Debora Moretti
@drdebsmoretti.bsky.social
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Professional archaeologist, Magic and Witchcraft Historian, researcher of the occult. Postdoctoral researcher for the @alternativehealers18341948 project at @UniofHerts
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Excellent evening at Waterstones in Leeds with @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social and @odavies9.bsky.social presenting their new book “Folklore. A journey through the past and present” 🥰
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The last couple of weeks saw me busy at the amazing Lincolnshire Archives. Not only my search proved to be successful but I also had time to check the beauties of Lincoln while waiting for my train 😊🧙‍♀️
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I got to experience the Midnight Sun at Midsummer in Rovaniemi!!! Amazing although I slept only 3 hours per night 😬
Amazing ISCH2025 Conference. Thank you University of Lapland!
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Reading today on more 19th-century folk medicine and I am of course intrigued by the apparent beautifying properties of cowslip. As the wonderful Culpepper also wrote about this…I am compelled to make my very own cowslip beatifying water! I will update you on the results 😬
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✨🔮 Our Magic & Witchcraft Conference in York is almost here!

📅 23–25 June | Hybrid event

🎟️ Last chance for in-person tickets – closes TODAY! 💻 Online registration open until 20 June!

Join us for spellbinding talks, history, and fun...don’t miss it!

www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
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When heavy metal meets academic research!!! Our new blog is live covering the figure of the seventh son of a seventh son!!!
#ironmaiden #alternativehealers #seventhsons
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When Iron Maiden released their 1988 concept album Seventh Son of a Seventh Son they were not just adding another record to their discography, they were tapping into a centuries-old well of myth folklore magic and history surrounding this figure. Our New blog👇
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The Healer Born: Folk Magic, Medicine, and the Mystique of the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son – Alternative Healers, 1834-1948
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Our new amazing blog is out!
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Our latest blog is now live and explores the 18th and 19th-century medical marketplace as a physical space where people bought remedies, ingredients, and simples. Join us for a journey through London’s historic herb markets🌿
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Come One, Come All: Herbs and Simples in the Historical Marketplace – Alternative Healers, 1834-1948
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Well…when in Rome 🥰
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Our new blog is live 🙌
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Our new blog is now live, exploring the case of Henry Eliazer Robinson, a butcher and workhouse master, and his troubling views on the treatment of the sick poor, particularly his perception of them as animals!
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Treated Like Animals? The ‘Master Butcher’ and the Sick Poor of Altrincham Workhouse – Alternative Healers, 1834-1948
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Reposted by Debora Moretti
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In January 1934 The Occult Digest published an article by astrologer Haasan Osiris suggesting that the great advancements in surgery at the time could be further improved if surgeons operated at "the right astrological time"
Intriguing theory or sheer nonsense? What do you think?
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Here we are again! Yeah!!!
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📣CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

The CREMS Magic and Witchcraft Conference is back for 2025! Come join us in York (24th - 25th June) to tackle the gnarly question - what is a witch?

Answers in abstract form, please - due 14th March 😊🧙‍♀️