Talk:Wolfssegen

writing this I realized that Segen may require its own article. Our folklore articles are generally in pathetic shape, the best you can hope is a pile of cruft people added over the years, in the worst case you get a weird pamphlet; I am really put off by the task of massaging them into something useful. Anyway, German Segen is a religious-slash-folkloristic concept with no exact translation. It is an early (8th or 9th century?) loan from signum, meaning "to bless with the sign of the cross", but it came to mean all sorts of related things, including "blessing", "prayer", "charm, spell, incantation", etc. There is a lot of Renaissance to early modern literature dealing with the different kinds of Segen (as the word could take both positive (religious) and negative (superstitious or occult) meanings). The early modern references discuss this as a "real" issue in the context of the witch trials; in modern literature, you will get treatments in folkloristics literature about various surviving regional customs. An important Swiss/Alpine example is the Alpsegen, sitting right on the boundary between Christian prayer and magical spell. --dab (𒁳) 09:40, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

I find it strange that I find no article about Wolfssegen or Wolfsbann in the German language wiki. Is this article relevant?