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08/15/07

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In these pages you will find  my research on the use of chickens in folk magic.  You'll find spells, stories, and cultural traditions. I did this research for fun, and because I wanted to understand more about the relationship we humans have with chickens, and the role this domestic animal has played in our religious and cultural lives over the globe and through the millennia.  My purpose is not to encourage anyone to any particular religion or magical practice, but to share interesting historical information.

 

"A large wife and a large barn bring luck to any man"      - Pennsylvania Dutch Wisdom

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How to Clean Your Chimney -

-Elizabethan Style

Toss an old hen down the chimney and her flapping will loosen the soot.  If she's lucky, the experience will scare her into laying again. Otherwise she goes into the stew pot.

 

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Chicken Superstition of the Week: 

Keep a black frizzly chicken in your yard and you will never have bad luck.

 

HOODOO

This is a non-religious magical system developed in America by African-Americans.

Hoodoo is often confused with Voodoo (Voudun) which is a religion.

 

Hoodoo uses black frizzled chickens for protection - especially hens.

White frizzle pullet and cockerel.  Note the curly feathers.

Lucy

Spats

Pebbles' Cairn

In Memoriam

Pebbles

May 1988 - March 5, 2005

Spats

1993 - June 2, 2005

Lucy

1988 - July 7, 2005

 

You could not bear to

be without each other

and we cannot bear

to be without you.

 

 

 

Send your chicken, egg, or feather  magic/folk stories to Barn Goddess and she might add it to this site!

Cluck On . . .

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