Witchcraft and Magic
The Historical and Occultic Blend: the Examination of Sorcery, Satanism and Witchcraft in Marjorie Bowen’s Novels Black Magic and the Poisoners
... Black Magic, there were various Marjorie Bowen novels that explored witchcraft and satanic ...black magic rites under Louis XIV in France which seeks to enhance Bowen‟s knowledge of French history ...
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The Impact of Magic and Witchcraft in the Social, Economic, Political and Spiritual Life of African Communities
... It is not easy to draw a giving line between white magic which is beneficial and black magic which is antisocial. They observe that the African method of administering social order is intimately connected ...
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Martin Del Rio: Investigations into Magic
... with witchcraft and magic, but he associated them with a variety of contemporary 'disciplines' that included mathematics, astrology and ...demonic magic, Del Rio was constantly at pains not to ...
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On the Renaissance of African Modes of Thought The Example of the Belief in Magic and Witchcraft
... Although Evans-Pritchard 85 was right in confronting common Western prejudices of the 1920s on primitive African thinking with the intrinsic logic of the belief in magic and witchcraft, this was just half ...
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Roman Witchcraft: ‘Contaminations’ between Literature and Reality
... real witchcraft. As in Theocritus, Canidia too is interested in love-magic; Horace, however, enriches the characterisation of Canidia and her witchcraft with macabre details: in the Fifth Epode ...
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Witchcraft and the reproduction of wealth in southern Zambia
... However, the powers that enable the African doctor to heal and solve problems also render them vulnerable to the suspicion of witchcraft. The power to cure, if misused, could become the power to kill. The line ...
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Witchcraft and Demonology – Topics, Methods and Trends in Witchcraft Research in Hungary, 2017
... Discourse of Witchcraft in Early Modern Nagybánya” (pp. 159–219) paper focuses on the ‘medical market’, i.e. rural specialists in magic and their clientele, and the relation- ship between these two groups. ...
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The Scapegoat: Impotence and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages
... There is a strong relationship between witchcraft and sexual issues such as impotence. The notion of witches attacking fertility was widespread in the fourteenth century and such ideas about magical infertility ...
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African witchcraft in theological perspective
... Witches and sorcerers, as many other people in African society, have the ability to perform natural magic or thaumaturgy. They, however, use this ability for evil purposes. These people turn thaumaturgy into ...
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Thesis
... modernity, witchcraft in the early modern period preoccupied much theological thought and secular ...age, witchcraft only became a preoccupation of the clergy in the later Middle Ages, one that would ...
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The Default Art of Classifying the Occult
... Research, the one shading into the other without presenting any marked line of cleavage.” 3 An application of Wiley’s class synopsis to our “browsing” tour equally mirrors the unclear demarcation between Psychology and ...
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The Contemporary Evidence for Early Medieval Witchcraft-Beliefs
... of Magic in Early Medieval Europe (1991) or, say, Catherine Rider’s fine Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages (2006) – impressive though these are in their ...to witchcraft might actually take us ...
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Literary Artists and African Witchcraft: The Unending Search for Solutions
... answers. Witchcraft also referred to as sorcery or black magic, falls anywhere between the natural and the spiritual or ...of witchcraft as depicted in two Swahili works of art namely Kisima cha ...
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The modernity of witchcraft. Examples from Cameroon
... To people in Yaounde (the capital of Cameroon), it is evident that the 'mentalité primitive' of the Maka and other groups in the East, explains why it is especially in this province th[r] ...
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(a, d) – Edge-antimagic Total labeling in Extended Duplicate Graph of Path
... labeling, magic labeling, anti-magic labeling, bi-magic labeling, mean labeling, arithmetic labeling, graceful labeling, harmonious labeling ...
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Group-antimagic Labelings of Multi-cyclic Graphs
... Z -magic (or Z 1 -magic) graphs were considered by Stanley [32, 33], where he pointed out that the theory of magic labelings could be studied in the general context of linear homogeneous[r] ...
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Where science and magic meet: the illusion of a “science of magic”
... to magic for testable neural ...of magic as an attempt to understand how magic tricks work, we risk missing a rather obvious ...how magic tricks work, but also demonstrate the adequacy of ...
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... “conjure magic” out of their “twinkle-toes?” Or was it neither of these, but a long dead King of England, Richard III, whose reburial in Leicester in late March 2015 came immediately before the Foxes’ revival (a ...
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Jewels, Gems, and Magic Stones: The Uses of Stones in Natural Magic in the Middle Ages
... Stones and gems have been valued through history not only for their beauty but for the magical powers that are attributed to them. While the powers that people in the Middle Ages believed in were not true they do give ...
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The magic of the library
... sympathetic magic and Benjamin’s concept of the "optical unconscious," (Taussig, "Sympathetic Magic," 2) a mode of human sensation brought to the fore by the new technology of the ...
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