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  • "'You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts' : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich's The Night Watchman"

    Author(s):
    Amel Abbady (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Historiography, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada, TC History and Literature, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    Indigenous peoples, Indians of North America, Magic realist fiction, Historical fiction
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Louise Erdrich, ghost, magical realism, boarding schools, Termination
    Search term matches:
    Title
    ... "'You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts' : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich's The Night ...
    Subject
    ... Magic realist fiction ...
    Tag
    ... magical realism ...

  • Spiritus mundi: Eternal life of the richest man on Earth

    Author(s):
    Serge Kernbach (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Fuggerei, Jakob Fugger, trithemius, Marsilio Ficino, natural magic of Renaissance
    Search term matches:
    Tag
    ... natural magic of renaissance ...
    Full Text
    ... magic’ of Renaissance in context of medieval Picatrix, cabalistic Sepher Ha-Razim and Neoplatonic ...

  • Twenty-One Authentic Jesus Sayings Extracted by Mathematical Decision Theory

    Author(s):
    David Olmsted (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Subject(s):
    Historicity of Jesus Christ
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    natural magic, Historical Jesus
    Search term matches:
    Tag
    ... natural magic ...
    Full Text
    ... magic/energy work concepts to teach against the then current expectations of the immanent arrival ...

  • Many Minoan Linear A Ritual Supply Texts Surrounding a Drought Translated in Alphabetic Akkadian (1700 BCE)

    Author(s):
    David Olmsted (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology, Alphabetic Akkadian, Pagan Studies, Writing Systems
    Subject(s):
    Religions, Mediterranean Region, History, Ancient, Akkadians, Archaeology and religion
    Item Type:
    Online publication
    Tag(s):
    Minoan Crete, Linear A, ritual magic, anceint drought, pagan, Ancient languages, Ancient Mediterranean religions, Akkadian, Archaeology of religions
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    ... ritual magic ...
    Full Text
    ... power class rituals were the “magical” rituals by their definition. The life-growth rituals centered ...

  • Which Seth? Untangling some close homonyms from ancient Egypt and the Near East

    Author(s):
    Lloyd Graham (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Ancient Near East, Assyriologists, Egyptology
    Subject(s):
    Egypt, History, Ancient, Gnosticism, Apocryphal books, Magic
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Suteans/Sutians, Sethian Gnosticism, Greek Magical Papyri, Seth, Sethianism, Ancient Egypt, Pseudepigrapha
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    ... Magic ...
    Tag
    ... greek magical papyri ...
    Full Text
    ... of the biblical/ pseudepigraphical figure; and (6) Seth as an agent invoked in magical texts. Accordingly ...

  • The iconography on the Paphos IAEW-amulet may draw upon the apotropaic ‘All-Suffering Eye’ motif

    Author(s):
    Lloyd Graham (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Ancient Near East, Byzantine Archaeology, Byzantine Studies, Egyptology, Late Antiquity
    Subject(s):
    Magic, Magic--Religious aspects, Religions, Mediterranean Region, History, Ancient
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Greco-Egyptian magic, Late Antique magic, amulet, Greco-Roman magic, Magico-religious systems, Ancient Mediterranean religions, Ancient religion
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    ... Magic ...
    Tag
    ... greco-egyptian magic ...
    Full Text
    ... -Suffering Eye’ motif Lloyd D. Graham A magical amulet – Inv. no. PAP/FR 44/2011 – was discovered at Nea Paphos ...

  • “PYRZQXGL: Or, How to Do Things with Magic Words.”

    Author(s):
    Dennis Wise (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Subject(s):
    Fantasy literature, Magic, Children's literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    L. Frank Baum, The Magic of Oz, magic words
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    ... “PYRZQXGL: Or, How to Do Things with Magic Words.” ...
    Subject
    ... Magic ...
    Tag
    ... the magic of oz ...
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    ... , this is an obvious one to start an article on magic words. My subtitle riff s on J. L. Austin’s classic ...

  • Perseus, Mars and the figurae magicae of PGM XXXVI

    Author(s):
    Lloyd Graham (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Subject(s):
    Magic, Magic--Religious aspects, Religions, Manuscripts (Papyri)
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Papyri Graecae Magicae, Greek Magical Papyri, Greco-Egyptian magic, Greco-Roman magic, Late Antique magic, Magico-religious systems, Sorcery, Papyrology
    Search term matches:
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    ... Magic ...
    Tag
    ... greek magical papyri ...
    Full Text
    ... with Mars in the talismanic image magic of medieval and Renaissance Europe – one whose magical reputation ...

  • Ritualmagische Wahrsagerei in der Handschrift 3227a des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg

    Author(s):
    Marco Heiles (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    German Literature and Culture, Late Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Netzwerk Historische Wissens- und Gebrauchsliteratur, Science Studies and the History of Science
    Subject(s):
    Magic, Germany, Middle Ages, Manuscripts, Cookbooks
    Item Type:
    Presentation
    Tag(s):
    Divination, ritual magic, 15th century manuscript, German manuscript, crystal gazing, Medieval Germany, Late medieval culture, Manuscript studies, Manuscript recipe book
    Search term matches:
    Subject
    ... Magic ...
    Tag
    ... ritual magic ...
    Full Text
    ... Ritualmagie / ritual magic As a genre of text […] ritual magic has certain characteristics: it describes ...

  • Borges y Yo, Eiron and Alazon: Irony in "The Library of Babel" and "Pierre Menard"

    Author(s):
    Jonathan Basile (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    Digital Humanists, Latin American Literature, Philosophy
    Subject(s):
    Latin American literature, Seventeenth century, Aesthetics, Rhetoric, Magic realism (Literature), Fantasy literature, Twentieth century
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Jorge Luis Borges, irony, 20th-century Latin American literature, Rhetorical aesthetics, Literary criticism, Magical realism, 20th-century fantastic literature
    Search term matches:
    Subject
    ... Magic realism (Literature) ...
    Tag
    ... magical realism ...

  • Giovanni Battista Della Porta’s Experiments with Musical Instruments

    Author(s):
    Rebecca Cypess (see profile)
    Date:
    2016
    Subject(s):
    Musicology, Musical instruments, Science
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    natural magic, acoustics
    Search term matches:
    Tag
    ... natural magic ...
    Full Text
    ... ) celebrates the powers of musical instruments. Most of these powers are rooted in neo-Platonist natural magic ...

  • Tar for Mortar: "The Library of Babel" and the Dream of Totality

    Author(s):
    Jonathan Basile (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Subject(s):
    Digital humanities, Latin American literature, Magic realism (Literature)
    Item Type:
    Book
    Tag(s):
    Atomism, Eternal Return, irony, Jorge Luis Borges, Library of Babel, Magical realism
    Search term matches:
    Subject
    ... Magic realism (Literature) ...
    Tag
    ... magical realism ...

  • Magas, magia y libros en los primeros nueve libros del ciclo amadisiano

    Author(s):
    Daniel Gutiérrez Trápaga (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Medieval Studies
    Subject(s):
    Spanish literature, Sixteenth century, Seventeenth century, Spanish literature--Classical period
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Medieval romance, Spanish literature, Early modern Spanish literature, Magic, 16th-century Spanish literature, Medieval Iberian literature, Golden Age Spanish Literature
    Search term matches:
    Tag
    ... magic ...
    Full Text
    ... on an essential part of the magic landscape of the first nine books of the Amadís cycle: enchantresses and magic ...

  • El día que las paredes hablaron... Contextos de hallazgo de los objetos ocultos en los muros de la Estancia La Elvira

    Author(s):
    Daniela Avido (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Subject(s):
    Archaeology
    Item Type:
    Presentation
    Tag(s):
    Archaeology of Religion, Magic
    Search term matches:
    Tag
    ... magic ...

  • Was the German manuscript Dresden, Landesbibliothek, M 206 from about 1515 used as magical agent?

    Author(s):
    Marco Heiles (see profile)
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    German Literature and Culture
    Subject(s):
    Germany, History, Germany, Area studies
    Item Type:
    Presentation
    Tag(s):
    amulets, artes magicae, Magic, magical agents, manuscript studies, German history, German studies
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    Title
    ... Was the German manuscript Dresden, Landesbibliothek, M 206 from about 1515 used as magical agent? ...
    Tag
    ... magic ...
    Full Text
    ... Was the German manuscript Dresden, Landesbibliothek, M from about used as magical agent ...

  • Die deutschsprachige Literatur der artes magicae und ihre Handschriften. Bibliographische Hinweise

    Author(s):
    Marco Heiles (see profile)
    Date:
    2014
    Group(s):
    German Literature and Culture
    Subject(s):
    Germany, History, Germanic literature
    Item Type:
    Course material or learning objects
    Tag(s):
    artes magicae, Magic, manuscript studies, Medieval German Literature, German history
    Search term matches:
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    ... magic ...
    Full Text
    ... , New York 1927-1942. Berlin, New York 1987-2000. Thorndike, Lynn: A History of Magic ...

  • A Copper-Alloy Bowl with Phallic Decoration from Trier, in the Collection of the Yorkshire Museum

    Author(s):
    Adam Parker (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Archaeology, Classical archaeology, Roman archaeology
    Subject(s):
    Archaeology, Classical antiquities, Religions, Civilization, Greco-Roman, Art, Roman
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Bowl, Magic, Phallic, Roman, Trier, Classical archaeology, Greco-Roman religion, Roman art
    Search term matches:
    Tag
    ... magic ...
    Full Text
    ... PhD project with the Open University investigating the archaeology of magic in Roman Britain ...

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