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Objects

How to describe a carved shape without turning an interpretation into a certainty.

Objects

Read familiar witch imagery as changing representation, rather than a single ancient code.

Trials

A guide to reading witch-trial material without treating the charge as proof.

Trials

Two famous episodes become more revealing when their surviving sources stay distinct.

Island traditions

The song has variants. A proposed historical person is a hypothesis, not a settled origin.

Island traditions

An ordinary working building and an extraordinary museum story need different kinds of evidence.

Charms

Read what was recorded about belief without turning a collection into a remedy book.

Charms

A practical field-note method for remembered stories, books and archive discoveries.