The Nine Plants Spell
Anglo-Saxon plant animism, historical paganism, & folk healing
by Joseph S. Hopkins
introduced by Danielle Cudmore
A unique, approachable, illustrated edition intended to be read aloud outdoors
Vibrantly animistic and remarkably hypnotic, Nigon Wyrta Galdor (popularly known as the Nine Herbs Charm) is an Old English healing galdor, a spell, that invokes nine personified plants and the pagan god Wōden to defeat a serpent before exploding in a psychedelic climax.
One of the most mysterious items in the Old English corpus, and originally sung, chanted, or otherwise performed to treat an unknown malady, the Nine Plants Spell provides a rare window into a living landscape from a lost time, dripping with mysticism and mystery, humming with life.
This third edition features new essays, art, and supplementary items to further assist in navigating the spell's many mysteries.
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Table of Contents
Instructions & warning
Introduction (Cudmore)
A note from the translator (Hopkins)
Timeline: The Nine Plants Spell
Nygon Wyrta Galdor: The Nine Plants Spell
Old English & non-stylized text
Spell summary
Structure & form
Phantom words & ghost worts
On wyrms & spells
Other translations & works cited
Index of images
Personnel
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Illustrated by Rim Baudey, Anneke Wilder, Jacqui Alberts Lund
Paperback Edition
130 pages. Perfect bound paperback, printed on high quality semi-gloss paper.
ISBN: 9781966041146
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About the Author
Joseph S. Hopkins is a writer, editor, and academic, whose research interests include folklore studies, historical linguistics, new religious movements, ancient Germanic studies, and Indo-European studies. He is the founder of Hyldyr Publications and author of numerous resources and articles in the realm of folklore studies and linguistics. Hopkins also operates Mimisbrunnir, a resource that developed out of a reading group at the University of Georgia's Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, and has edited for the University of Helsinki's Retrospective Methods Network Newsletter for over a decade. His academic writings can be found here.
