Author: Tannita
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1452512949
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 129
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Book Description
- Have you ever wondered about the taboo and secret world of black magick? - Have you ever thought that maybe someone has put a curse or binding on you? - Have you ever thought that you may be under a magickal or psychic attack and want to be able to defend yourself? - Do you know someone that has been attacked and want to help them to heal? - Do you want to know more about curses and bindings so you can do them yourself? - Do you want to take your magickal abilities to the next level, developing your skills further? The answers to what you seek are within these pages. Welcome to the world of curses and bindings.
Author: John G. Gager
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195134827
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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For the first time text from tablets have been translated into English with substantial translator's introduction revealing the cultural, social and historical context for these spells and tablets of the ancient world.
Author: Esther Eidinow
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199277788
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 533
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A study of the question tablets from the oracle at Dodona and binding-curse tablets from across the ancient Greek world, These tablets reveal the hopes and anxieties of ordinary people, and help us to understand some of the ways in which they managed risk and uncertainty in their daily lives.
Author: Rachel Patterson
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1785354604
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Witchcraft... into the wilds leads us through the wilds of nature and back to the roots and bones of witchcraft, a natural witchcraft that works with the seasons and all the natural items that Mother Nature provides, drawing on magical folk lore and a little bit of gypsy magic too. No fancy tools or ceremonial rituals, this is about working with the source. Mother Earth provides us with the changing of the seasons and within that turning of the year she gives us everything we need to work magic with, from natural energy in the form of storms, rain and sunshine to tangible items packed full of magical energy such as seeds, leaves and stones.
Author: Seon Yong Kim
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 3161555899
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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"What are Paul's rhetorical strategies to affect the Galatian believers? Seon Yong Kim shows how Paul uses heavy employment of the curse theme, complex appropriation of Scripture, and a thoroughly negative caricature of his opponents in order to agitate the mind and emotions of the Galatians and thereby dissuade them from the demand of circumcision." --provided by publisher, back cover
Author: Bernard Thomas Mees
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Full analysis of ancient and medieval expressions of Celtic cursing, using evidence ranging from magical charms to curse tablets.
Author: Dan Levene
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004257268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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The corpus of Aramaic incantation bowls from Sasanian Mesopotamia is perhaps the most important source we have for studying the everyday beliefs and practices of the Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, Manichaean, Zoroastrian and Pagan communities on the eve of the Islamic conquests. In Jewish Aramaic Curse Texts from Late-Antique Mesopotamia, Dan Levene collects and analyses a selection of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic incantation bowls. While such texts are usually apotropaic or healing in purpose, those collected here are distinctive in that their purpose was to curse or return curses against human adversaries. This book presents new editions of thirty texts, of which fourteen are edited here for the first time, with an introduction, commentary, analysis and glossaries, as well as photographs. “In this valuable addition to the literature on the role of bowls with aggressive texts in magic practices in this period, Levene (Jewish history and culture, U. of Southampton, UK) presents a summary of newly edited and already published bowls with Aramaic transcription; English translation; its type (e.g., invocation of demons to attack a named person, counter-charm); publication source; formulaic parallels in other texts; and notes." Reference & Research Book News, 2013.
Author: I. I. I. Radcliffe G. G. Edmonds III
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691230218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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An unparalleled exploration of magic in the Greco-Roman world What did magic mean to the people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Romans not only imagine what magic could do, but also use it to try to influence the world around them? In Drawing Down the Moon, Radcliffe Edmonds, one of the foremost experts on magic, religion, and the occult in the ancient world, provides the most comprehensive account of the varieties of phenomena labeled as magic in classical antiquity. Exploring why certain practices, images, and ideas were labeled as “magic” and set apart from “normal” kinds of practices, Edmonds gives insight into the shifting ideas of religion and the divine in the ancient past and later Western tradition. Using fresh approaches to the history of religions and the social contexts in which magic was exercised, Edmonds delves into the archaeological record and classical literary traditions to examine images of witches, ghosts, and demons as well as the fantastic powers of metamorphosis, erotic attraction, and reversals of nature, such as the famous trick of drawing down the moon. From prayer and divination to astrology and alchemy, Edmonds journeys through all manner of ancient magical rituals and paraphernalia—ancient tablets, spell books, bindings and curses, love charms and healing potions, and amulets and talismans. He considers the ways in which the Greco-Roman discourse of magic was formed amid the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, including Egypt and the Near East. An investigation of the mystical and marvelous, Drawing Down the Moon offers an unparalleled record of the origins, nature, and functions of ancient magic.
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Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1780995636
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 97
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Why go to the bother of cursing, when a bottling or binding can be just as effective.
Author: Daniel Cohen
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Recounts curses on families, creatures, places, wanderers, and ghosts. Also describes amulets and talismans which provide protection.
