Ribe healing-stick
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The Ribe healing stick is a pinewood stick found at Ribe, Denmark, with a heavily pagan-inspired Christian spell. It dates to circa 1300 CE.
The section containing the phrase "nine needs" (ni : no=uþær).
Side 1, starting with ᛭ io=rþ : biþ a=k.
Side 2, starting with uiuindnæ : þær.
Side 3, starting with kumæ : suart.
Galdrabók
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The galdrabók is an Icelandic grimoire dated to c. 1600. It is a small manuscript containing a collection of 47 spells and sigils/staves.
Ribe healing-stick
…The phrase 'nine needs' (ni : no=uþær) appears in several explicitly pagan charms, such as the Swedish Sigtuna plate 1 and the Icelandic spell-book Galdrabók. The term læknæshand ("healing hand") is found in a pagan prayer in the Icelandic poem Sigrdrífumál, while the phrase "heavens above" or "high heaven…
Page from the Galdrabók about the Ægishjálmur occult symbol
Kári Pálsson: Galdrabók – 2024