{
  "corpus": {
    "version": "f9f80c0ae425",
    "files": 83,
    "entries": 3120,
    "licence": "CC-BY-SA-4.0",
    "attribution": "The Grimoire corpus — https://ensoul.so/grimoire"
  },
  "query": "protection",
  "mode": "all-terms",
  "count": 20,
  "total": 805,
  "facets": {
    "section": {
      "workings": 96,
      "foundations": 57,
      "celestial": 42,
      "forces": 181,
      "esoteric": 38,
      "divination": 41,
      "materials": 335,
      "oracles": 5,
      "elements": 10
    }
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "score": 50,
      "matched": [
        "protection"
      ],
      "id": "protection",
      "name": "Protection",
      "file": "core_workings.json",
      "collection": "core_workings",
      "collection_title": "Workings",
      "section": "workings",
      "type": null,
      "summary": "Creating boundaries, shielding, and defensive wards",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "wiccan_modern"
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/protection"
    },
    {
      "score": 10,
      "matched": [
        "protection"
      ],
      "id": "himmelsbrief",
      "name": "Himmelsbrief (Letter of Protection)",
      "file": "folk_magic.json",
      "collection": "folk_magic",
      "collection_title": "Folk magic",
      "section": "workings",
      "type": null,
      "summary": null,
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "pennsylvania_dutch_braucherei",
        "source": "John George Hohman, Der lange verborgene Freund (Reading, Pennsylvania, 1820), printed in English as The Long Lost Friend; Patrick J. Donmoyer, Powwowing in Pennsylvania: Braucherei and the Ritual of Everyday Life (2018); Patrick W. Gainer, Witches, Ghosts, and Signs: Folklore of the Southern Appalachians (1975)",
        "note": "Print culture is the point: this is a charm that came off a press, and its history runs from late-antique heavenly letters and early German printings through the Pennsylvania German presses to the twentieth-century occult shops. It is one of the strongest arguments in the corpus against treating 'folk' and 'printed' as opposites."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/himmelsbrief"
    },
    {
      "score": 10,
      "matched": [
        "protection"
      ],
      "id": "protection_of_the_home",
      "name": "Protection of the Home",
      "file": "folk_magic.json",
      "collection": "folk_magic",
      "collection_title": "Folk magic",
      "section": "workings",
      "type": null,
      "summary": null,
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "hoodoo",
        "source": "Harry Middleton Hyatt, Hoodoo-Conjure-Witchcraft-Rootwork, 5 vols. (Alma C. Hyatt Foundation, Hannibal, Missouri, 1970-1978; fieldwork 1936-1940); Zora Neale Hurston, 'Hoodoo in America', Journal of American Folklore 44, no. 174 (1931), 317-417; Newbell Niles Puckett, Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro (1926); Patrick W. Gainer, Witches, Ghosts, and Signs: Folklore of the Southern Appalachians (1975); John George Hohman, Der lange verborgene Freund (Reading, Pennsylvania, 1820), printed in English as The Long Lost Friend",
        "note": "The four-corner salt and the door-step brick dust are sometimes called superstition by the people who do them, and the tradition does not require a theory: the work is done because the house feels wrong otherwise. Recorded here as practice, not as a doctrine of how protection works."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/protection_of_the_home"
    },
    {
      "score": 5,
      "matched": [
        "protection"
      ],
      "id": "aladiah",
      "name": "Aladiah",
      "file": "shem_hamephorash.json",
      "collection": "shem_hamephorash",
      "collection_title": "Shem HaMephorash",
      "section": "foundations",
      "type": "shem_angel",
      "summary": null,
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "kabbalah",
        "note": "One of the seventy-two names of the Shem HaMephorash, formed from the three consecutive letters of Exodus 14:19-21 read boustrophedon. The spelling follows the Golden Dawn/Ambelain standard; Reuchlin, Agrippa and Lenain give different Latinised forms. The psalm references follow English/Protestant numbering; the Golden Dawn lecture cites Hebrew numbering, one higher where the superscription is verse 1. Modern tables start the series at Aries 0 with six names per sign at 5 degrees each; the Golden Dawn lecture instead starts at Leo 0 and gives two names to each 10-degree decan. Reuchlin, Agrippa and Rudd treat the 72 as angels ruling the 72 Goetic spirits in nine choirs of eight; Jewish Kabbalah reads the same triads primarily as divine names."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/aladiah"
    },
    {
      "score": 5,
      "matched": [
        "protection"
      ],
      "id": "algol",
      "name": "Algol",
      "file": "fixed_stars.json",
      "collection": "fixed_stars",
      "collection_title": "Fixed stars",
      "section": "celestial",
      "type": "fixed_star",
      "summary": "Algol is a fixed star in Perseus, at 26.43° Taurus, of the nature of Saturn and Jupiter.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "agrippa",
        "note": "Longitude is the tropical position for 2020 from Agrippa's table as tabulated in modern reference works; fixed stars precess about 1 degree per 72 years, so a working should recompute the position for its own epoch. The gem and plant are Agrippa's, and where the gem is not itself a catalogued stone the value is the catalogue's family head, with Agrippa's own name in `gem_name`. Algol is the most feared fixed star in the tradition: it is used to protect, not to bless, and Agrippa pairs it with Saturn and Jupiter because the two together can bind what either alone would only provoke."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/algol"
    },
    {
      "score": 5,
      "matched": [
        "protection"
      ],
      "id": "alkaid",
      "name": "Alkaid",
      "file": "fixed_stars.json",
      "collection": "fixed_stars",
      "collection_title": "Fixed stars",
      "section": "celestial",
      "type": "fixed_star",
      "summary": "Alkaid is a fixed star in Ursa Major, at 27.2° Virgo, of the nature of Venus and Moon.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "agrippa",
        "note": "Longitude is the tropical position for 2020 from Agrippa's table as tabulated in modern reference works; fixed stars precess about 1 degree per 72 years, so a working should recompute the position for its own epoch. The gem and plant are Agrippa's, and where the gem is not itself a catalogued stone the value is the catalogue's family head, with Agrippa's own name in `gem_name`. Alkaid is the last star of the Great Bear's tail; the tradition connects the Bear to mourning and to the turning of the year."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/alkaid"
    },
    {
      "score": 5,
      "matched": [
        "protection"
      ],
      "id": "anauel",
      "name": "Anauel",
      "file": "shem_hamephorash.json",
      "collection": "shem_hamephorash",
      "collection_title": "Shem HaMephorash",
      "section": "foundations",
      "type": "shem_angel",
      "summary": null,
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "kabbalah",
        "note": "One of the seventy-two names of the Shem HaMephorash, formed from the three consecutive letters of Exodus 14:19-21 read boustrophedon. The spelling follows the Golden Dawn/Ambelain standard; Reuchlin, Agrippa and Lenain give different Latinised forms. The psalm references follow English/Protestant numbering; the Golden Dawn lecture cites Hebrew numbering, one higher where the superscription is verse 1. Modern tables start the series at Aries 0 with six names per sign at 5 degrees each; the Golden Dawn lecture instead starts at Leo 0 and gives two names to each 10-degree decan. Reuchlin, Agrippa and Rudd treat the 72 as angels ruling the 72 Goetic spirits in nine choirs of eight; Jewish Kabbalah reads the same triads primarily as divine names."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/anauel"
    },
    {
      "score": 5,
      "matched": [
        "protection"
      ],
      "id": "angels_general",
      "name": "Angels",
      "file": "angels_demons.json",
      "collection": "angels_demons",
      "collection_title": "Angels & demons",
      "section": "forces",
      "type": "angel_choir",
      "summary": "The lowest and closest order of angels: the messengers and guardians who walk beside individual people and places. The word angelos is 'messenger', and this is the choir that gives the whole order its name.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": [
          "jewish",
          "christian",
          "islamic"
        ],
        "note": "The lowest choir is the one closest to human life in the Pseudo-Dionysian scheme; the corpus records the hierarchy and does not present it as a fixed dogma."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/angels_general"
    },
    {
      "score": 5,
      "matched": [
        "protection"
      ],
      "id": "archangels_general",
      "name": "Archangels",
      "file": "angels_demons.json",
      "collection": "angels_demons",
      "collection_title": "Angels & demons",
      "section": "forces",
      "type": "angel_choir",
      "summary": "The order of angels that carries the great messages between the divine and the human. The named archangels (Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, and others) are the tradition's particular angels, while the choir is the rank they belong to in the Pseudo-Dionysian hierarchy.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": [
          "jewish",
          "christian",
          "islamic"
        ],
        "note": "The nine choirs are Pseudo-Dionysius's; the named archangels are a separate tradition. The corpus keeps the choir and the named angels as distinct entries so the two are not conflated."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/archangels_general"
    },
    {
      "score": 5,
      "matched": [
        "protection"
      ],
      "id": "bear",
      "name": "Bear",
      "file": "animal_totems.json",
      "collection": "animal_totems",
      "collection_title": "Animal totems",
      "section": "esoteric",
      "type": null,
      "summary": "Bear is an earth animal totem of the north in the Folk Western tradition. It is associated with strength, introspection and grounding. Its medicine is courage, healing and solitude, and its shadow aspect is aggression and isolation.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "folk_western"
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/bear"
    },
    {
      "score": 5,
      "matched": [
        "protection"
      ],
      "id": "bear",
      "name": "Bear",
      "file": "lenormand.json",
      "collection": "lenormand",
      "collection_title": "Lenormand",
      "section": "divination",
      "type": "lenormand_card",
      "summary": "Power, protection and authority; a boss, matriarch or strong older figure and the resources they command.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "lenormand",
        "note": "Lenormand cards are read in pairs and lines rather than as archetypes; the playing-card inset is traditional and is not used in every school. This deck is the 36-card Petit Lenormand, not the 54-card Grand Jeu."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/bear"
    },
    {
      "score": 5,
      "matched": [
        "protection"
      ],
      "id": "binding",
      "name": "Binding",
      "file": "rituals.json",
      "collection": "rituals",
      "collection_title": "Rituals",
      "section": "workings",
      "type": "ritual",
      "summary": "Binding is a spellcraft ritual of restriction, from the Folk Western tradition. It has 4 steps and opens with: Name exactly what is being bound and why.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "folk_western",
        "source": "Common folk and ceremonial practice",
        "note": "Binding is ethically loaded: the corpus records it as a practice with a stated limit, and does not present it as a cure for a situation that needs a conversation or the law."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/binding"
    },
    {
      "score": 5,
      "matched": [
        "protection"
      ],
      "id": "birth",
      "name": "Birth",
      "file": "core_workings.json",
      "collection": "core_workings",
      "collection_title": "Workings",
      "section": "workings",
      "type": null,
      "summary": "Attending a birth, welcoming the child and protecting mother and child at the threshold.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "folk_western"
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/birth"
    },
    {
      "score": 5,
      "matched": [
        "protection"
      ],
      "id": "black",
      "name": "Black",
      "file": "colors.json",
      "collection": "colors",
      "collection_title": "Colours",
      "section": "materials",
      "type": "neutral",
      "summary": "Black (#000000) is a neutral colour of absorption and mystery. Its keywords are protection, banishing and absorption.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "folk_western"
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/black"
    },
    {
      "score": 5,
      "matched": [
        "protection"
      ],
      "id": "black_salt",
      "name": "Black Salt",
      "file": "folk_magic.json",
      "collection": "folk_magic",
      "collection_title": "Folk magic",
      "section": "workings",
      "type": null,
      "summary": null,
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "atlantic_folk_magic",
        "source": "Carolyn Morrow Long, Spiritual Merchants: Religion, Magic, and Commerce (2001); Owen Davies, Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History (2003); Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971)",
        "note": "The corpus does not treat black salt as hoodoo's own: it is catalogued under the transatlantic umbrella because that is where its documented use sits. A worker who uses it uses it as one more protective salt, and the older southern practice is white salt and brick dust."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/black_salt"
    },
    {
      "score": 5,
      "matched": [
        "protection"
      ],
      "id": "blue",
      "name": "Blue",
      "file": "colors.json",
      "collection": "colors",
      "collection_title": "Colours",
      "section": "materials",
      "type": "primary",
      "summary": "Blue (#0000FF) is a primary colour of peace and communication. Its keywords are peace, truth and communication.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "folk_western"
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/blue"
    },
    {
      "score": 5,
      "matched": [
        "protection"
      ],
      "id": "camphor_in_folk_work",
      "name": "Camphor in Folk Work",
      "file": "folk_magic.json",
      "collection": "folk_magic",
      "collection_title": "Folk magic",
      "section": "workings",
      "type": null,
      "summary": null,
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "hoodoo",
        "source": "Harry Middleton Hyatt, Hoodoo-Conjure-Witchcraft-Rootwork, 5 vols. (Alma C. Hyatt Foundation, Hannibal, Missouri, 1970-1978; fieldwork 1936-1940); Newbell Niles Puckett, Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro (1926); Lydia Cabrera, El Monte (1954)",
        "note": "This entry deliberately points at the existing catalogues rather than duplicating them: the plant is `camphor` in herbs.json and the incense is `camphor` in incense_resins.json, and the two files own those claims. What is recorded here is the folk-magical use, which neither of them carries."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/camphor_in_folk_work"
    },
    {
      "score": 5,
      "matched": [
        "protection"
      ],
      "id": "cancer",
      "name": "Cancer",
      "file": "zodiac.json",
      "collection": "zodiac",
      "collection_title": "Zodiac",
      "section": "celestial",
      "type": null,
      "summary": "Cancer is the 4th sign of the zodiac, water and cardinal, ruled by Moon.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "hellenistic"
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/cancer"
    },
    {
      "score": 5,
      "matched": [
        "protection"
      ],
      "id": "capella",
      "name": "Capella",
      "file": "fixed_stars.json",
      "collection": "fixed_stars",
      "collection_title": "Fixed stars",
      "section": "celestial",
      "type": "fixed_star",
      "summary": "Capella is a fixed star in Auriga, at 22.13° Gemini, of the nature of Jupiter and Saturn.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": "agrippa",
        "note": "Longitude is the tropical position for 2020 from Agrippa's table as tabulated in modern reference works; fixed stars precess about 1 degree per 72 years, so a working should recompute the position for its own epoch. The gem and plant are Agrippa's, and where the gem is not itself a catalogued stone the value is the catalogue's family head, with Agrippa's own name in `gem_name`. Capella is the goat that nursed Zeus; the tradition reads it as a protective, nourishing star, and Agrippa pairs Jupiter with Saturn to steady it."
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/capella"
    },
    {
      "score": 5,
      "matched": [
        "protection"
      ],
      "id": "chi_rho",
      "name": "Chi-Rho",
      "file": "symbols.json",
      "collection": "symbols",
      "collection_title": "Symbols",
      "section": "divination",
      "type": null,
      "summary": "The monogram of Christ from the first two letters of the Greek Christos, used as a protective and triumphant sign from the fourth century.",
      "provenance": {
        "tradition": [
          "christian"
        ]
      },
      "untraced": false,
      "url": "https://ensoul.so/grimoire/e/chi_rho"
    }
  ]
}