Serbian Love Magic

By Vladimir Zlatic

Love has always been one of the strongest motives for magic.

In Serbian and wider Slavic folk tradition, people developed rituals, charms, beliefs, and magical practices intended to attract love, awaken desire, secure affection, preserve relationships, overcome rejection, or influence the person they wished to be with.

Slavic Love Magic explores this fascinating part of Serbian and Slavic folk belief.

Many traditional magical practices survived far longer than the religious world from which they originally emerged. Even in modern Serbia, small customs with roots in older magical thinking remain part of everyday life, often practiced by people who would never describe themselves as believers in magic. Gestures intended to prevent misfortune, words spoken to keep evil away, and numerous protective customs continue alongside modern education, science, and technology.

Love magic belongs to this much older world.

Some practices were gentle and poetic, involving plants, water, personal objects, symbolic actions, spoken formulas, and traditional beliefs about attraction and fate. Others reveal a much darker side of folk magic, where the desire to obtain or preserve love could become coercive, obsessive, or merciless.

This book examines these traditions as folklore, mythology, and folk religion, preserving the beliefs and practices through which earlier generations attempted to understand-and sometimes control-one of the most powerful forces in human life.

For readers interested in Slavic mythology, Serbian folklore, love magic, folk magic, Balkan traditions, pagan beliefs, and traditional folk religion, this book opens a window into a world where love, desire, fate, fear, and magic were closely connected.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08QLFFWWD
• ISBN13: 9798578254239
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"