Lorsch Bee Blessing
The Lorsch Bee Blessing is a bee-keeping prayer intended to bring home honey bees in good health to their hives. It is believed to have been written in the 10th century, and was discovered in a manuscript from the monastery in Lorsch, Germany, famous for the Lorsch Codex. Despite being a Christian prayer written in Old High German, it has remarkable similarities to the Anglo-Saxon and apparently pagan "For a Swarm of Bees" magic charm. It may reflect a common pre-Christian Germanic cultural heritage. It is likely that the text was added to the lower margin of its manuscript to be removed and used as an amulet in an apiary.