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  1. “Notes on Old English Charms”,Neophilologus LXIV (1980), 461–69.

  2. J. H. G. Grattan and Ch. Singer,Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medecine (London, 1952), p. 192.

  3. W. Bonser,The Medical Background of Anglo-Saxon England (London, 1963), p. 379.

  4. G. Storms,Anglo-Saxon Magic (The Hague, 1948), p. 308.

  5. In fact there is no other example in Anglo-Saxon magic of the use of the number two (cf. G. Storms,Op. cit., pp. 96–97).

  6. G. Henslow,Medical Works of the Fourteenth Century (London, 1899), p. 32.

  7. quum: the abbreviation mark afterqu should be expanded asando, i.e.quando.

  8. commingendi: read:coniungendi.

  9. M. S. Ogden,The ‘Liber de Diversis Medicinis’, E.E.T.S., o.s. no 207, (London, 1938), p. 56.

  10. puerilus: corrupt forpuer uel.

  11. According to G. Storms,Op. cit., p. 308, the MS hasasedit.

  12. Only additional letters and words have been put in square brackets.

  13. Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch (München, 1967 ff.) I col. 908. Arcus is also a synonym ofArcturus, the stellar constellation, also known as the Great Bear. It is remarkable that this constellation is in Classical astrology regarded as a cause of death (Fr. Boll and C. Bezold,Sternglaube und Sterndeutung (Leipzig, 1931), p. 143.

  14. See the charms quoted by A. Franz,Die Kirchlichen Benedikionen im Mittelalter (Freiburg, 1909), II, pp. 198–201.

  15. A. Franz,Op. cit., II, p. 199.

  16. J. H. G. Grattan and C. Singer,Op. cit., p. 188.

  17. Not “an angel” as G. Storms,Op. cit., p. 275 has it. Compare p. 273: “The archangel Michael is mentioned by name in some cases”.

  18. Edited in my paper: “Enkele Zegeningen en krachtige gebeden in een Vlaams devotieboek uit de vijftiende Eeuw”,Volkskunde LXXIX (1978), 285–307.

  19. T. O. Cockayne,Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England (London, 1864–66), III, p. 274.

  20. G. Storms,Op. cit., p. 213.

  21. J. H. Grattan and C. Singer,Op. cit., p. 182.

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Braekman, W.L. Notes on Old English charms II. Neophilologus 67, 605–610 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02352419

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