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Use Amulets And Cunning Folk To Protect Livestock
- Protect livestock from fairy attack with amulets (mistletoe and mountain ash) and by consulting local 'cunning' healers for charms.
- Avoid disturbing fairy dwellings or ringforts, as doing so was believed to bring curses or misfortune.
Spit And Sheela‑na‑Gigs Averted The Evil Eye
- To guard children from the evil eye, communities practiced spitting on the child's face and used protective carvings like Sheela-na-Gigs.
- Sheela-na-Gigs displayed grotesque vulvas believed to avert malevolent gazes in the landscape and churches.
Butter Witches Sabotaged Dairy
- Butter witches were folkloric beings who stole milk by transforming into hairs and prevented churning.
- Remedies included burning suspected witch's thatch or driving cattle through bonfire smoke to force the witch to revert.