Incantation
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| - | '''Magic''' is the art of producing a desired effect or result through the use of [[incantation]], ceremony, ritual, the casting of [[Spell (paranormal)|spell]]s or various other techniques that presumably assure human control of [[supernatural]] agencies or the [[natural phenomenon|forces of nature]]. | + | A '''spell''', charm, or '''[[incantation]]''' is a set of words, spoken or unspoken (prayer). Casting a spell is considered by its user to invoke some [[Magic (paranormal)|magical]] effect. Historical attestations exist for the use of some variety of incantations in many cultures around the world. [[Pharmakeia]] is often the vehicle for binding someone with a spell with and without uttered words. Often binding someone with a spell by the use of spoken word formulas involves the use of [[evocation]]. |
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| - | ==Examples== | + | |
| - | ===Healing or harming others=== | + | |
| - | * One of the most widespread magical procedures for healing, harming or otherwise influencing someone from a distance involves making an [[effigy]] of him or her from any material. Actions performed on the effigy are believed to result in analogous effects upon the target person, so that, for example, a part of the effigy's body may be damaged in order to cause pain or disease in the same part of the target's body. This magical technique may be employed for maleficent or beneficent ends, and even for giving help to gods against malignant demons. --Freud (1950, 79). | + | |
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| - | Examples of magical, folk-magical, and religio-magical traditions include: | + | |
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| - | * [[Alchemy]] | + | |
| - | * [[Animism]] | + | |
| - | * [[Asatru]] | + | |
| - | * [[Benedicaria]] | + | |
| - | * [[Black Magic]] | + | |
| - | * [[Bön]] | + | |
| - | * [[Candomblé Jejé]] | + | |
| - | * [[Ceremonial magic]] | + | |
| - | * [[Chaos magic]] | + | |
| - | * [[Druid]]ry | + | |
| - | * [[Feri Tradition]] | + | |
| - | * [[Haitian Vodou]] | + | |
| - | * [[Hermetic Qabalah]] | + | |
| - | * [[Hermeticism]] | + | |
| - | * [[Hoodoo (folk magic)|Hoodoo]] | + | |
| - | * [[Huna (New Thought)|Huna]] | + | |
| - | * [[Kabbalah]] | + | |
| - | * [[Louisiana Voodoo]] | + | |
| - | * [[Nagual]] | + | |
| - | * [[Obeah]] | + | |
| - | * [[Onmyōdō]] | + | |
| - | * [[Palo (religion)|Palo]] | + | |
| - | * [[Pow-wow (folk magic)|Pow-wow]] | + | |
| - | * [[Psychonaut]]ics | + | |
| - | * [[Quimbanda]] | + | |
| - | * [[Reiki]] | + | |
| - | * [[Santería]] | + | |
| - | * [[Satanism]] | + | |
| - | * [[Seiðr|Seid]] | + | |
| - | * [[Setianism]] | + | |
| - | * [[Sex Magic]] | + | |
| - | * [[Shamanism]] | + | |
| - | * [[Shinto]] | + | |
| - | * [[Sigil (magic)|Sigil Magic]] | + | |
| - | * [[Tantra]] | + | |
| - | * [[Taoism]] | + | |
| - | * [[Thelema]] | + | |
| - | * [[West African Vodun]] | + | |
| - | * [[Witchcraft]] | + | |
| - | * [[Wicca]] | + | |
| - | * [[Zos Kia Cultus]] | + | |
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| - | * [[List of magical terms and traditions]] | + | *[[Invocation]] |
| - | * [[List of occult writers]] | + | *[[Magic word]] |
| - | * [[List of occultists]] | + | |
| - | * [[Love magic]] | + | |
| - | * [[Maleficium (sorcery)]] | + | |
| - | * [[Magic (illusion)]] | + | |
| - | * [[Magic in fiction]] | + | |
| - | * [[Magic in the Greco-Roman world]] | + | |
| - | * [[Occult]]ism | + | |
| - | * [[Psionics]] | + | |
| - | * [[Sympathetic magic]] | + | |
| - | * [[Witchcraft]] | + | |
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A spell, charm, or incantation is a set of words, spoken or unspoken (prayer). Casting a spell is considered by its user to invoke some magical effect. Historical attestations exist for the use of some variety of incantations in many cultures around the world. Pharmakeia is often the vehicle for binding someone with a spell with and without uttered words. Often binding someone with a spell by the use of spoken word formulas involves the use of evocation.
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