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Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History

2007-06-01 History
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Release : 2007-06-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History by : Owen Davies

Download or read book Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History written by Owen Davies. This book was released on 2007-06-01. 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.

Romanticism and Popular Magic

2019-01-16 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2019-01-16
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 101/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Romanticism and Popular Magic by : Stephanie Elizabeth Churms

Download or read book Romanticism and Popular Magic written by Stephanie Elizabeth Churms. This book was released on 2019-01-16. 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.

The Best Kind of Magic

2017-05-04 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2017-05-04
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Best Kind of Magic by : Crystal Cestari

Download or read book The Best Kind of Magic written by Crystal Cestari. This book was released on 2017-05-04. 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.

The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe

2008-06-11 History
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Release : 2008-06-11
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 117/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe by : E. Bever

Download or read book The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe written by E. Bever. This book was released on 2008-06-11. 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.

New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology: Witchcraft, healing, and popular diseases

2001 Architecture
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Release : 2001
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology: Witchcraft, healing, and popular diseases by : Brian P. Levack

Download or read book New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology: Witchcraft, healing, and popular diseases written by Brian P. Levack. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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