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1 Οκτ 2024 · Also known as witch marks or anti-witch marks, these symbols are often scratched onto walls or buildings to protect the site from evil spirits and witches. These symbols can take many forms. For example, some apotropaic marks look like flowers made of overlapping circles.
Apotropaic marks, also called 'witch marks' or 'anti-witch marks' in Europe, are symbols or patterns scratched on the walls, beams and thresholds of buildings to protect them from witchcraft or evil spirits. They have many forms; in Britain they are often flower-like patterns of overlapping circles. [24] such as hexafoils.
Despite their name, witch marks have very little to do with witches or witchcraft. The markings are believed to have turned away evil, providing protection to the building and those who lived or worked within it.
30 Σεπ 2024 · Witches’ marks served as protective symbols that people carved, drew, or scratched onto homes and household items to guard against evil. These marks functioned like magical shields, designed to prevent harmful forces from entering.
One of the ways in which owners, occupants and visitors to buildings sought to ward off evil was by carving protective symbols, as graffiti, into the structure’s fabric. In doing so, they sometimes turned to ancient folk beliefs and pseudo-theology for inspiration.
The following is a list of symbols associated with the occult. [1] This list shares a number of entries with the list of alchemical symbols as well as the list of sigils of demons.
Witches’ marks - ritual protection symbols or apotropaic marks - have been found in many historic places, from medieval churches and houses, to barns, and caves. The word 'apotropaic' comes from the Greek word for averting evil.
