Index of Charms

The printed Brauche-Bücher carried an index like this one, so that a Braucher called out at night could find the right words quickly. This is the same thing: every charm and remedy on the site, gathered by what it is for rather than by which page it happens to live on.

If you are ill or hurt, see a doctor. These are the words of a folk-religious tradition, not medical care — the disclaimer says so plainly, and so did the old Brauchers.

Blood and wounds

To Stop Blood #1 — There stood three roses upon our Saviour’s grave
To Stop Blood #2 — the red knife, and the three ladies from Jordan’s land
To Stop Blood #3 — the four rivers, written on a slip of paper
To Stop a Wound from Bleeding — Mary goes throughout the land
For Wounds and Stopping of Blood — the three holy hours
To Staunch Blood — He said to the water, “Be still”
For Wounds — Jesus walked upon the earth, he pricked his foot with a thorn
The real power in a blood-stopping charm — Robert decodes the three roses, and names the third

Burns

Charm to cure burns — Fire of God, lose thy heat, with a gentle breath at each line
Burn Remedy — drawing the fire away by hand, with the verse spoken silently

Pain, aches and headache

Headache Charm #1
Headache Charm #2 — Tame thou flesh and bone, Robert’s most successful
For Easing Pains — Holy, holy chicken dirt
To Soothe Aches and Pains — from Psalm 30
Pain removal ritual

Swelling, inflammation and infection

For Swelling — as little pain as the three nails
For Inflammation
For the Removal of Germs or Bacterial Infection
To Remove Skin Infections — the red string, for wildfire
To Remove Skin Infections

Sprains, splinters and the body

For Sprains
For Thorns (or Splinters) #1
For Thorns (or Splinters) #2
LiverGrown — the old complaint of a colicky child
To cure a person of worms

Fever, and charms for any ill

To Banish Fevers — the diminishing letter-square, worn eleven days
An all-purpose healing charm — Heile, heile, Segen
Variations on the healing charm — the same words in Deitsch, German and English

Protection of the person

A Charm for Personal Safety — God the Father is before me
Against Evil Spirits and all manner of Witchcraft — the N. I. R. square, carried on white paper
To Prevent Malicious Persons from doing you an injury — Dullix, ix, ux
Protection from Sorcery — elm cut on Good Friday
A Protective Talisman
For Quick Protection Against Hexerei — chalk kept in wormwood
The SATOR Square
Amulets of Protection
Cloth Braucher Charms

Protection of house and property

To Protect The Home — Three angels with three swords
To Protect your home from all manner of evils — three crosses at the doorstep
To Guard your home against thieves and witches — water spoken over 77 times
To Keep Witches Away from your Property — St John’s Wort over the door
To Create a Protective Boundary Around Your Property
Protective Fence Posts — INRI marked before the post goes in
To Manufacture a Golden Ring for House and Home
Annual household protection ritual
PA Dutch House Blessings

Witchcraft — detecting it, and undoing it

To Determine if you have been Bewitched — the egg passed over the body
To Remove Negative Witchery and Return it to the Witch
To Destroy All Magic Being Used Against You
Anti-hex charms — the older collection, with its caveats
To Discern in a Mirror what an Enemy Designs — from Egyptian Secrets
Superstitions About Witches
Anti-witchcraft rituals and charms — every such charm from the three grimoires, collected
Oh no! Someone put a curse on me! — what a Braucher rules out first

Thieves, and justice

A charm to make a thief return stolen goods — Abraham bound it
A Charm to Make a Thief Return Stolen Goods
For Justice in Court — Calendula carried, and Psalm 20
Protection from Thieves
A means of binding one who has wronged you

Beasts, the barn and the field

To insure safety from an angry dog
To Compel a dog, horse, or other animal to follow you — spoken into the right ear
For Haunted Horses or Cattle
When a Man or Cattle is Plagued by Goblins
To Prevent Fire Arms from Being Bewitched

Weather

Weather Charm — the red knife held against the storm
Weather Prediction — the signs the old people watched
Weather Lore

How the work is done

Not charms in themselves, but the frame the charms sit in.

Sealing a Powwow working — how the sign of the cross is made
The PowWow Session — start to finish
The PowWow Chair
Using Astrological Correspondences in Healing, and the Astrology Rhyme
The Magic Circle
The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram
Powwow Tools — the knife, the string, the stick, the coin

This index covers the reference pages and the charms Robert singled out in his writing. There is more scattered through Robert’s Corner — try the Charms, Healing and Protection & Hexerei topics.