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The Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe.(Book Review)
Folklore
; The Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe. Series Edited by Bengt Ankarloo and Stuart Clark. Vol. 1: Biblical and Pagan Societies. By Frederick H. Cryer and Marie-Louise Thomsen. London: Athlone Press, 2001. 168 pp. 50.00 [pounds sterling] (hbk), 17.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN
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The return of stolen goods: Reginald Scot, religious controversy, and magic in Bodleian Library, Additional B. 1.(Discoverie of Witchcraft)(Critical essay)
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
; at the nomination of the guiltye person, the syve will turne rounde. --Reginald Scot, Discoverie of Witchcraft Stanley Tambiah has criticized the religion, science, and magic model employed by anthropologists and modern historians as an anachronistic product of the religious controversies of the
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Studies in Witchcraft, Magic, War, and Peace in Africa: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The International Journal of African Historical Studies
; Studies in Witchcraft, Magic, War, and Peace in Africa: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Edited by Beatrice Nicolini. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. Pp. xix, 383. $129.95 / 79.95. Beatrice Nicolini, assistant professor of History and Institutions of Africa at the Catholic University of
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HOCUS-POCUS, MAGIC AND CHRISTIANITY
Armenian Reporter, The
; Souin, Shnork Armenian Reporter, The 11-01-2003 Hocus-pocus! Well, here is an expression associated with the season! The very word hocus-pocus conjures up in our imagination the picture of witches, cauldrons and magic spells. It's Halloween, after all, and it's all about creepy and spooky things -
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The meanings of magic.
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
; The establishment of a new journal titled Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft begs the question: what do these words mean? In what sense do they comprise a useful academic category or field of inquiry? The history of magic and the cultural functions it has played and continues to play in many societies
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Magic, Witchcraft and the Otherworld: An Anthropology
The Australian Journal of Anthropology
; Susan Greenwood. Magic, Witchcraft and the Otherworld.- An Anthropology. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers, 2000. Pp.256, bibliog., index. US$65.00 (Hc ISBN 1-- 85973-445-6; US$19.50 (Pb ISBN 1-85973-450-2. Magic has a pride of place in anthropological research. The studies of magic, however,
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Witchcraft, Magic and Culture, 1736-1951.(Review)
Folklore
; Witchcraft, Magic and Culture, 1736-1951. By Owen Davies. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1999. 337 pp. 15.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7490-5656-X These two excellent books, together with several papers which Owen Davies has published in various journals (including this one),
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Forum section: shamanism, witchcraft, and magic.
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
; Foreword The ritualized activities, trance states, preternatural abilities, and supposed interaction with spiritual entities (demons, ghosts, etc.) that characterize shamanism constitute a remarkably pervasive aspect of magic in many cultures from earliest antiquity even to the present. Whether
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Heresy, Magic, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Church History
; Heresy, Magic, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe. By Gary K. Waite. European Culture and Society. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. vii + 284 pp. $90.00 cloth; $30.95 paper. This book shows how the major religious changes of the early modern period influenced the discourse on magic
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Magic, Mystery, and Science: The Occult in Western Tradition.(Book Review)
Canadian Journal of History
; Magic, Mystery, and Science: The Occult in Western Tradition, by Dan Burton and David Grandy. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2004. xii, 390 pp. $59.95 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper). H. L. Mencken's Treatise on the Gods noted that humans invent religions, or belief systems, to deal with the
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