in a "marvellously incantatory effect".

Mugwort and Swedish folklore

The spell contains a variety of hapax legomena, words only found in it. One of those words is una, a name which the plant mugwort is referred to. In 2025, Swedish folklorist Sara Bonadea George identifies a parallel to the section of the spell on mugwort in much later Swedish folklore. In an obscure item from Gotland found in the Uppsala landmålsarkiv and dated to 1875, mugwort requests to be called Luna before it will

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