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I have to say I am a bit confused by the post.
Do you want to have references of start a discussion about folk sorcery?
If it is information then I can say that as far as I know, most central and western european folk magick is, just as you wrote, Christian, or Christianised magick.
As far as I understand it when the Roman Empire decided to move their physical empire into the realms of an egregore and became the Roman Catholic Church (which several Times manifested as a physical empire as well...) most of the old science dissappeared along with literacy. The higher forms of Magick eg the Greek rites, te roman religious rituals and the Egyptians mysteries and astrology became something that was handed down orally. Oral traditions require memorisation and thus a lot of the theory was stripped away to keep it workable. For instance, There is a spell in Hungary that catholic women do, which is that before they cut bread, they cross it whilst muttering a short prayer. This makes the bread holy and keeps away spirits, apparently.
So in folk magick you have that specific version which is the oralified (new words, yeay) versions of theurgy.
The other type emerges as people feel the need to be able to do magick. This tradition relies not on dumded down versions of earlier stuff, but rather is a recreation and infusion of meaning into something completely new. This type of folk magick comes around during the height of chivalry when people base their magick on clerical ideas.
The third main type of folk magick that I am aware of is entirely Christian based and came about as a result of the Church, namely satanism/devil-worship. The idea is simple: If you can pray to god to achieve nice things then you can also pray to the devil/Satan for results.
This type of thinking was prevalent not just in high brow church society but also among peasants. Rituals included saying the ords prayer backwards, stealing the altar wine and mixing it with herbs to help induce abortions etc.
Unfortunately most of the references are in Hungarian and or german, and I am away from my library. But you might want to look at
the following keywords
Boszorkanysag
magyar babona
babona es boszorkanysag
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