Myths & magic (118 pages found in this category)


Sea Mither

Mythical being of Orcadian folklore that lives in the sea during summer; also known as Mither of the Sea

Shrew of Kentish Town

Redirected to Jinney Bingham, Mother Damnable

Society for Psychical Research

Registered charity founded in 1882 to conduct scientific investigations into psychic and paranormal phenomena.

Sooterkin

Imaginary kind of afterbirth in the form of an "evil-looking little animal" especially attributed to Dutch women.

Sortes Biblicae

Method of divination used by some Christians to foretell the future by interpreting randomly chosen texts from the Bible.

Spell (magical)

Verbal charm to be spoken or chanted, sometimes a single magic word such as Abracadabra or the Renervate encountered in the fictional Harry Potter series of books.

Spirit photography

Technique popular in the 19th century to capture the invisible spirits of the deceased.

Stone tape theory

Idea that recurrent hauntings are produced by the replaying of recordings stored in the physical environment, analogously to tape recordings.

Stoor worm

Gigantic evil sea serpent of Orcadian folklore

Swarth

Redirected to Fetch.