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Women's medicine, women's magic: the old English metrical childbirth charms
Discusses the Anglo-Saxon women healing practices and the charms used for managing child birth. Role of magical technicians called shamans; Metrical passages and ritual instructions for healing; History of gender relations in the middle ages; Definition of a woman's liminality; Possibility of women's inherent contact with the supernatural; Popular ritual maintained by women of England.
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