The Secret Book of Magic: incantations for healing the mind
ISBN: 9781449544638 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The result of centuries of transmission, this book is written exclusively for those who aspire to achieve the highest and most benevolent levels of magic: power to heal the mind.The term "incantation" in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary means a "formula of words designed to produce a particular effect." Until now the formulae of words for healing the mind have been the secret possession of the few. By presenting questions and statements in a prescribed manner, the affect upon the willing subject is the healing of unresolved hurts and experiences. The mental practitioner uses these words...
The result of centuries of transmission, this book is written exclusively for those who aspire to achieve the highest and most benevolent levels of ma...
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555,30 zł |
Witch Beliefs and Witch Trials in the Middle Ages : Documents and Readings
ISBN: 9781441149657 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1901 a rich collection of extracts from documents relating to witch beliefs and witch trials in the Middle Ages - Hexenwahns und der Hexenverfolgung in Mittelalter - was published in Bonn. Most of the original documents are in Latin, with some in medieval German and French, and it has been left largely untranslated, making the material inaccessible, and neglected. This new translation of the key documents will enable students and scholars to look afresh at this crucial period in the development of attitudes towards witchcraft. Through the translated extracts we can see the beliefs... In 1901 a rich collection of extracts from documents relating to witch beliefs and witch trials in the Middle Ages - Hexenwahns und der Hexenverfol... |
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566,18 zł |
A Cognitive Theory of Magic
ISBN: 9780759110373 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author presents a new theory of magical actions based on a wide array of recent findings in the cognitive sciences. Analysing classical ethnographic cases, he argues that paying close attention to the underlying cognitive processes will not only explain why magical rituals look the way they do, it will also supply new insights into the role of magic in the formation of institutionalised religion.
The author presents a new theory of magical actions based on a wide array of recent findings in the cognitive sciences. Analysing classical ethnograph...
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574,31 zł |
Priests, Tongues, and Rites: The London-Leiden Magical Manuscripts and Translation in Egyptian Ritual (100-300 Ce)
ISBN: 9789004141858 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an investigation into the sphere of production and use of two related bilingual magical handbooks found as part of a larger collection of magical and alchemical manuscripts around 1828 in the hills surrounding Luxor, Egypt. Both handbooks, dating to the Roman period, contain an assortment of recipes for magical rites in the Demotic and Greek language. The library which comprises these two handbooks is nowadays better known as the Theban Magical Library.
The book traces the social and cultural milieu of the composers, compilers and users of the extant spells through a... This book is an investigation into the sphere of production and use of two related bilingual magical handbooks found as part of a larger collection of...
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The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America
ISBN: 9780199578160 / Angielski / Twarda / 646 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. During these years witches were thought to be evil people who used magical power to inflict physical harm or misfortune on their neighbours. Witches were also believed to have made pacts with the devil and sometimes to have worshipped him at nocturnal assemblies known as sabbaths. These beliefs provided the...
The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literat...
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591,44 zł |
Malevolent Nurture
ISBN: 9780801430046 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why were women far more likely than men to be executed for witchcraft in the early modern period? Questioning approaches that focus narrowly on the male role in witch-hunting in England and Scotland, Deborah Willis examines the fact that women were also frequently the accusers. Willis draws on the strengths of feminist, new historicist, and psychoanalytic criticism and on such primary sources as legal documents, pamphlet literature, religious tracts, and stage plays. Both the witch and her female accuser, Willis concludes, were engaged in a complex, intricate struggle for survival... Why were women far more likely than men to be executed for witchcraft in the early modern period? Questioning approaches that focus narrowly on the... |
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597,06 zł |
Magic and Modernity: Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment
ISBN: 9780804744638 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Magic and Modernity is the first book to explore comparatively how magic--usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern--is also something that is at home in modernity. "Magic" and "modernity" are rarely regarded as belonging together. Evolutionism regarded magic as quintessentially "unmodern." Although psychologists and romantic artists have sometimes declared magic to be a human universal, few modern scholars in the humanities and social sciences have studied how modern culture and institutions incorporated and even produced magic. This book is the first to adopt a comparative...
Magic and Modernity is the first book to explore comparatively how magic--usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern--is also something ...
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597,06 zł |
Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000-1900: A Sourcebook - audiobook
ISBN: 9781501750649 / Angielski / Twarda / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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597,06 zł |
The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940
ISBN: 9781501715907 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Chain of Things, Eric Downing shows how the connection between divinatory magic and reading shaped the experience of reading and aesthetics among nineteenth-century realists and modernist thinkers. He explores how writers, artists, and critics such as Gottfried Keller, Theodor Fontane, and Walter Benjamin drew on the ancient practice of...
In The Chain of Things, Eric Downing shows how the connection between divinatory magic and reading shaped the experience of reading and aesthetics amo...
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597,06 zł |
The Magical Imagination
ISBN: 9781107002005 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative history of popular magical mentalities in nineteenth-century England explores the dynamic ways in which the magical imagination helped people to adjust to urban life. Previous studies of modern popular magical practices and supernatural beliefs have largely neglected the urban experience. Karl Bell, however, shows that the magical imagination was a key cultural resource which granted an empowering sense of plebeian agency in the nineteenth-century urban environment. Rather than portraying magical beliefs and practices as a mere enclave of anachronistic 'tradition' and the...
This innovative history of popular magical mentalities in nineteenth-century England explores the dynamic ways in which the magical imagination helped...
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611,75 zł |
The Salt of the Earth: Natural Philosophy, Medicine, and Chymistry in England, 1650-1750
ISBN: 9789004161764 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Consisting of a series of case studies, this book is devoted to the concept and uses of salt in early modern science, which have played a crucial role in the evolution of matter theory from Aristotelian concepts of the elements to Newtonian chymistry. No reliable study on this subject has been previously available. Its exploration of natural history's and medicine's intersection with chemical investigation in early modern England demonstrates the growing importance of the senses and experience as causes of intellectual change from 1650-1750. It demonstrates that an understanding of the...
Consisting of a series of case studies, this book is devoted to the concept and uses of salt in early modern science, which have played a crucial role...
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617,57 zł |
The Occult in Early Modern Europe: A Documentary History
ISBN: 9780333688144 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Witchcraft and the occult sciences are areas which have benefited enormously from the spread of more sophisticated cultural studies in recent years. The old debate as to whether or not witches were really believed to exist has collapsed in the face of the overwhelming bodies of evidence suggesting a genuine and widespread acceptance of the occult in a notionally Christian Europe.
This excellent and wide-ranging documentary anthology shows the genuinely pan-European nature of the phenomenon, its spread through all classes and its importance in people's thinking about the natural world. It... Witchcraft and the occult sciences are areas which have benefited enormously from the spread of more sophisticated cultural studies in recent years. T...
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617,65 zł |
English Witchcraft, 1560-1736, Vol 4
ISBN: 9781138753266 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This chronological collection charts the change in attitudes to witchcraft during the period 1560-1736, which culminates in the educated debate on the reality of witchcraft and the gradual decline in belief in witches and associated phenomena.
This chronological collection charts the change in attitudes to witchcraft during the period 1560-1736, which culminates in the educated debate on the...
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617,65 zł |
English Witchcraft, 1560-1736, Vol 5
ISBN: 9781138753273 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This chronological collection charts the change in attitudes to witchcraft during the period 1560-1736, which culminates in the educated debate on the reality of witchcraft and the gradual decline in belief in witches and associated phenomena.
This chronological collection charts the change in attitudes to witchcraft during the period 1560-1736, which culminates in the educated debate on the...
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English Witchcraft, 1560-1736, Vol 2
ISBN: 9781138753242 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This chronological collection charts the change in attitudes to witchcraft during the period 1560-1736, which culminates in the educated debate on the reality of witchcraft and the gradual decline in belief in witches and associated phenomena.
This chronological collection charts the change in attitudes to witchcraft during the period 1560-1736, which culminates in the educated debate on the...
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English Witchcraft, 1560-1736, Vol 6
ISBN: 9781138753280 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This chronological collection charts the change in attitudes to witchcraft during the period 1560-1736, which culminates in the educated debate on the reality of witchcraft and the gradual decline in belief in witches and associated phenomena.
This chronological collection charts the change in attitudes to witchcraft during the period 1560-1736, which culminates in the educated debate on the...
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English Witchcraft, 1560-1736, Vol 1
ISBN: 9781138753235 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This chronological collection charts the change in attitudes to witchcraft during the period 1560-1736, which culminates in the educated debate on the reality of witchcraft and the gradual decline in belief in witches and associated phenomena.
This chronological collection charts the change in attitudes to witchcraft during the period 1560-1736, which culminates in the educated debate on the...
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Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England: A History of Sorcery and Treason
ISBN: 9781788310215 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II.
Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II.
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Necronomicon
ISBN: 9780892541461 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the past 31 years, there has been a lot of ink -- actual and virtual -- spilled on the subject of the Necronomicon. Some have derided it as a clumsy hoax; others have praised it as a powerful grimoire. As the decades have passed, more information has come to light both on the book's origins and discovery, and on the information contained within its pages. The Necronomicon has been found to contain formulae for spiritual transAA-formation, consistent with some of the most ancient mystical processes in the world, processes that were not public knowledge when the book was first published,...
In the past 31 years, there has been a lot of ink -- actual and virtual -- spilled on the subject of the Necronomicon. Some have derided it as a clums...
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618,03 zł |
The End of Magic
ISBN: 9780195108798 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout history, magic has been as widely and passionately practiced as religion. But while religion continues to flourish, magic stumbles towards extinction. What is magic? What does it do? Why do people believe in magic? Ariel Glucklich finds the answers to these questions in the streets of Banaras, India's most sacred city, where hundreds of magicians still practice ancient traditions, treating thousands of Hindu and Muslim patients of every caste and sect. Through study and interpretation of the Banarsi magical rites and those who partake in them, the author presents fascinating living...
Throughout history, magic has been as widely and passionately practiced as religion. But while religion continues to flourish, magic stumbles towards ...
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628,02 zł |