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Saining not Smudging- Purification, Blessing and Lustration in Scottish Folk Magic Practice
Saining is the Scottish Folk magic act of purification – a way of blessing or removing enchantments that uses smoke or other methods like tar or water or written texts (though Mackenzie writes of it as an amulet to make…