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 +[[Image:La main de gloire.JPG|thumb|200px|''[[Hand of Glory]]'', anonymous]]
[[Image:The Raven.jpg|thumb|right|200px|In 1963, [[Roger Corman]] directed ''[[The Raven (1963 film)|The Raven]]'', a [[horror-comedy]] written by [[Richard Matheson]] very loosely based on the poem, "[[The Raven]]" by [[Edgar Allan Poe]]. It stars [[Vincent Price]], [[Peter Lorre]], and [[Boris Karloff]] as a trio of rival [[Magic (paranormal)|sorcerers]].]] [[Image:The Raven.jpg|thumb|right|200px|In 1963, [[Roger Corman]] directed ''[[The Raven (1963 film)|The Raven]]'', a [[horror-comedy]] written by [[Richard Matheson]] very loosely based on the poem, "[[The Raven]]" by [[Edgar Allan Poe]]. It stars [[Vincent Price]], [[Peter Lorre]], and [[Boris Karloff]] as a trio of rival [[Magic (paranormal)|sorcerers]].]]
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-'''''[[Magic]]''''' and '''''[[sorcery]]''''' are the influencing of events, objects, people and physical phenomena by [[Mysticism|mystical]], [[paranormal]] or [[supernatural]] means. The terms can also refer to the practices employed by a person to wield this influence, and to beliefs that explain various events and phenomena in such terms.+'''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]].
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==Examples== ==Examples==
===Healing or harming others=== ===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). {{GFDL}}+* 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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 +==See also==
 +* [[List of magical terms and traditions]]
 +* [[List of occult writers]]
 +* [[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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 +{{GFDL}}

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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 spells or various other techniques that presumably assure human control of supernatural agencies or the forces of nature.

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).


Examples of magical, folk-magical, and religio-magical traditions include:

See also




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