The Supreme Book Of All Magics Translated
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The supreme book of all Magics (Translated)
In the work of Albert the Great are his admirable secrets containing many treatises on the conception of women, the virtues of herbs, precious stones, animals, augmented with a curious compendium of physiognomy and a method of preservation against plague, malignant fevers, poisons and infection of the air that spreads disease. THE SUPREME BOOK OF ALL MAGIC puts within reach of the scholar and the erudite the marvelous secrets of natural and cabalistic magic, in which one finds the hand of the master, whose art is also embodied in the mysterious plates of the talismans.
Magic’s Translations
Author: Margaret J. Wiener
language: en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date: 2025-04-04
“Do you believe in magic?” This familiar question suggests magic is easily recognized but unreal. In Magic’s Translations, Margaret J. Wiener argues that such views are shaped by historical power struggles, especially in Europe’s relations with the wider world. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Dutch interactions with Indonesians, Wiener reveals how colonial agents framed unfamiliar practices, practitioners, and objects as “magic,” rendering distinct phenomena fundamentally alike and advancing colonizing projects that deemed magic antithetical to reason and reality. While colonial authorities, including ethnologists, mobilized the concept of magic to differentiate Europeans from Indonesians, nature from culture, reason from superstition, and fact from fetish, their efforts produced unexpected outcomes: Some Indonesian artifacts and acts not only retained their power but invaded European experiences. As anthropologists were among the key translators of magic throughout the world, Wiener intersperses accounts of magic’s translations in the Indies with reflections on anthropology’s ongoing engagement with the concept. She demonstrates that magic became an object of expert knowledge, political control, and popular fascination, rather than a self-evident category or relic of naïve belief.
The Complete Book of Spells, Curses, and Magical Recipes
Author: Leonard R. N. Ashley
language: en
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Release Date: 2010-10-31
Everything you need to know about casting spells, mixing up elixirs, andmaking...