TY - GEN N1 - ill. ; 29 cm N2 - Prehistoric stone objects (most often Neolithic) referred to as ‘thunderstones’ in the Middle Ages and modern times have been assigned various meanings – primarily they are supposed to have been used to protect against lightning, fire, and other natural disasters. They have also found application in folk medicine and healing magic (protection against the harmful effects of disease and loss of fertility, and neutralisation of misfortune when it has already occurred). Trust in their magical (apotropaic) properties was probably associated with the belief that these objects originated from outside the sphere of the ‘tame’ world. Folklore and ethnographic data, as well as traces of use preserved in archaeological monuments, support a long tradition of therapeutic use of thunderstones, which is a pan-European phenomenon L1 - http://www.rcin.org.pl/iae/Content/235552/270522.pdf M3 - Text J2 - Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae. Fasc. 34 (2021) PY - 2021 EP - 24 KW - prehistoric stone products KW - thunderstones KW - magic-medical meaning KW - folk medicine KW - Middle Ages KW - Modern Times A1 - Kurasiński, Tomasz PB - Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences PB - Polish Academy of Sciences. Łódź Branch VL - 34 CY - Łódź SP - 7 T1 - Against Disease, Suffering, and Other Plagues: the Magic-healing Role of Thunderstones in the Middle Ages and Modern Times UR - http://www.rcin.org.pl/iae/dlibra/publication/edition/235552 ER -