Trånsjuka, Skämma och Förgjord: Traditional Uses of Menstrual and Bucks Blood in Trolldom

Trolldom - the folk magic traditions of Scandinavia - has existed for at least 500 years. Additionally, in the last 200 years, millions of people from Sweden, Denmark and Norway emigrated to the United States, bringing with them their folk culture and magic traditions. These traditions were maintained in old Svartkonstbok, from which modern practitioners can catch a glimpse of an important cultural tradition of folk magic and healing. Within Trolldom’s long tradition there are a number of techniques and practices around the inherent power of menstrual blood, bucks blood, spit and urine. How were these tools used for love magic and cursing? How was sexual energy understood by Nordic Folk Magicians, and in what way did that influence the use of such tools? These are all important questions that shed a light on how the folk magics of the Nordic people functioned, for hundreds of years, and how it…