Popular Magic

Author : Owen Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 082644279X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History written by Owen Davies and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cunning-folk were local practitioners of magic, providing small-scale but valued service to the community. They were far more representative of magical practice than the arcane delvings of astrologers and necromancers. Mostly unsensational in their approach, cunning-folk helped people with everyday problems: how to find lost objects; how to escape from bad luck or a suspected spell; and how to attract a lover or keep the love of a husband or wife. While cunning-folk sometimes fell foul of the authorities, both church and state often turned a blind eye to their existence and practices, distinguishing what they did from the rare and sensational cases of malvolent witchcraft. In a world of uncertainty, before insurance and modern science, cunning-folk played an important role that has previously been ignored.

Author : Esther K. Smith
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
ISBN 13 : 0307407098
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magic Books & Paper Toys written by Esther K. Smith and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read from front to back, 77 p. section includes pop-ups, flip books, and paper folding. Read from back to front, 69 p. section includes items with hidden aspects, accordion folding, and snap wallets.

Author : Jean Hugard
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486156524
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Card Tricks written by Jean Hugard and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This giant-sized collection explains how to perform over 600 professional card tricks, devised by the world's greatest magicians. The finest single compendium available, the book features a clear style that makes the instructions easy to follow.

Author : E. Bever
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230582117
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe written by E. Bever and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-06-11 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the elements of reality in early modern witchcraft and popular magic, through a combination of detailed archival research and broad-ranging interdisciplinary analyses, this book complements and challenges existing scholarship, and offers unique insights into this murky aspect of early modern history.

Author : Crystal Cestari
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1484758560
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best Kind of Magic written by Crystal Cestari and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amber Sand is not a witch. The Sand family magical gene somehow leapfrogged over her. But she did get one highly specific bewitching talent: she can see true love. As a matchmaker, Amber's pretty far down the sorcery food chain (even birthday party magicians rank higher), but after five seconds of eye contact, she can envision anyone's soul mate. Amber works at her mother's magic shop -- Windy City Magic -- in downtown Chicago, and she's confident she's seen every kind of happy ending there is: except for one--her own. (The Fates are tricky jerks that way.) So when Charlie Blitzman, the mayor's son and most-desired boy in school, comes to her for help finding his father's missing girlfriend, she's distressed to find herself falling for him. Because while she can't see her own match, she can see his -- and it's not Amber. How can she, an honest peddler of true love, pursue a boy she knows full well isn't her match? The Best Kind of Magic is set in urban Chicago and will appeal to readers who long for magic in the real world. With a sharp-witted and sassy heroine, a quirky cast of mystical beings, and a heady dose of adventure, this novel will have you laughing out loud and questioning your belief in happy endings.

Author : Stephanie Elizabeth Churms
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030048101
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romanticism and Popular Magic written by Stephanie Elizabeth Churms and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how Romanticism was shaped by practices of popular magic. It seeks to identify the place of occult activity and culture – in the form of curses, spells, future-telling, charms and protective talismans – in everyday life, together with the ways in which such practice figures, and is refigured, in literary and political discourse at a time of revolutionary upheaval. What emerges is a new perspective on literature’s material contexts in the 1790s – from the rhetorical, linguistic and visual jugglery of the revolution controversy, to John Thelwall’s occult turn during a period of autobiographical self-reinvention at the end of the decade. From Wordsworth’s deployment of popular magic as a socially and politically emancipatory agent in Lyrical Ballads, to Coleridge’s anxious engagement with superstition as a despotic system of ‘mental enslavement’, and Robert Southey’s wrestling with an (increasingly alluring) conservatism he associated with a reliance on ultimately incarcerating systems of superstition.

Author : Mark Anthony Wilson
Publisher : Running Press Kids
ISBN 13 : 9780762414550
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic written by Mark Anthony Wilson and published by Running Press Kids. This book was released on 2003-05-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate book of magic for kids from a world-famous magician, complete with photographs for easy to follow instructions. From one of the world's premier practitioners of classic magic, with years of experience instructing younger readers in the magical arts, comes this new revision of his complete guide to learning and performing fantastic feats of prestidigitation. Acclaimed by the Los Angeles Times as "the text that young magicians swear by," it's full of step-by-step instructions. More than 2,000 illustrations provide the know-how behind 300 techniques, from basic card tricks to advanced levitation, along with advice on planning and staging a professional-quality magic show.

Author : Willem De Blecourt
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526137976
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft continued written by Willem De Blecourt and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The study of witchcraft accusations in Europe during the period after the end of the witch trials is still in its infancy. Witches were scratched in England, swum in Germany, beaten in the Netherlands and shot in France. The continued widespread belief in witchcraft and magic in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France has received considerable academic attention. The book discusses the extent and nature of witchcraft accusations in the period and provides a general survey of the published work on the subject for an English audience. It explores the presence of magical elements in everyday life during the modern period in Spain. The book provides a general overview of vernacular magical beliefs and practices in Italy from the time of unification to the present, with particular attention to how these traditions have been studied. By functioning as mechanisms of social ethos and control, narratives of magical harm were assured a place at the very heart of rural Finnish social dynamics into the twentieth century. The book draws upon over 300 narratives recorded in rural Finland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that provide information concerning the social relations, tensions and strategies that framed sorcery and the counter-magic employed against it. It is concerned with a special form of witchcraft that is practised only amongst Hungarians living in Transylvania.

Author : Ellis Stanyon
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486405308
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks written by Ellis Stanyon and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of tricks for amateurs and professionals alike -- from relatively complex maneuvers involving mathematical calculation to simple tricks for beginners such as "The Traveling Ace."

Author : Ron Van der Meer
Publisher : Viking Juvenile
ISBN 13 : 9780670565085
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pop-up Book of Magic Tricks written by Ron Van der Meer and published by Viking Juvenile. This book was released on 1983 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instructions are given for the performance of fourteen astonishing tricks.