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amulets --- charms --- talismans --- crafts --- the mystic --- occult wisdom --- white magic --- herbs --- stones --- colors --- symbols
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The themes of magic and the supernatural in medieval romance are here fully explored and put into the context of thinking at the time in this first full study of the subject. The world of medieval romance is one in which magic and the supernatural are constantly present: in otherwordly encounters, in the strange adventures experienced by questing knights, in the experience of the uncanny, and in marvellous objects - rings, potions, amulets, and the celebrated green girdle in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. This study looks at a wide range of medieval English romance texts, including the works of Chaucer and Malory, from a broad cultural perspective, to show that while they employ magic in order to create exotic, escapist worlds, they are also grounded in a sense of possibility, and reflect a complex web of inherited and current ideas. The bookopens with a survey of classical and biblical precedents, and of medieval attitudes to magic; subsequent chapters explore the ways that romances both reflect contemporary attitudes and ideas, and imaginatively transform them. Inparticular, the author explores the distinction between the `white magic' of healing and protection, and the more dangerous arts of `nigromancy', black magic. Also addressed is the wider supernatural, including the ways that ideasassociated with human magic can be intensified and developed in depictions of otherworldly practitioners of magic. The ambiguous figures of the enchantress and the shapeshifter are a special focus, and the faery is contrasted with the Christian supernatural - miracles, ghosts, spirits, demons and incubi. Professor CORINNE SAUNDERS Saunders teaches in the Department of English, University of Durham.
Romances, English --- Magic in literature. --- Supernatural in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Chaucer. --- Christian Supernatural. --- Enchantress. --- Faery. --- Magic. --- Malory. --- Medieval Romance. --- Nigromancy. --- Shapeshifter. --- Supernatural. --- White Magic.
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White Magic --- Wicca --- the Old Religion --- Black Magic --- Satanism --- Black Mass --- drug-heightened orgies --- cults --- European prehistory --- Voodoo --- tribal cults of Black Africa
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sorcerers --- magic --- Western occultism --- grimoires --- grammars of black and white magic --- the key of Solomon --- the Grimoire of Honorius the Great --- simple spells --- complex ceremonial magic --- talismans --- invocation of spirits
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witchcraft --- medieval charmbooks and grimoires --- techniques, materials, incantations and spells of sorcery and witchcraft --- magical herbs --- stones and animals --- charms --- amulets and talismans --- rites of Satanism --- Satanism and witchcraft --- black magic --- white magic --- grey magic --- the mystic sciences
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spells --- invocations --- curses --- initiation ceremonies --- sacred rituals, charms and talismans --- words of power --- propitiation rites --- magical formulae --- Oriental Magic --- the world of the Occult --- folklore and oral tradition of the East --- with an unrivalled knowledge of extant source books and manuscripts --- supernatural belief --- Babylon --- Japan --- ancient Egypt --- India --- Judea --- Arabia --- Qur'an --- Atharva Veda --- Key of Solomon --- grammars, or grimoires --- ceremonies of black and white magic --- religious and magical works --- witchdoctors of the Nile Valley --- Tibetan holy man --- English vampiress
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We cannot, the author argues, adequately understand the religious imagination without knowing the historical, social, and cultural matrices from which it arises. Accordingly, his book explores the Fang culture of Gabon as a set of contexts from which emerges the Bwiti religion. In addition to experience with missionary Christianity, Bwiti uses a great reservoir of images and ideas from its own past. Professor Fernandez analyzes how they are recreated into a compelling religious universe, an equatorial microcosm. Part I, a detailed ethnographic account of Fang culture after colonial encounter, addresses the attendant problems. The author discusses the European influence on the self-concept of the Fang, family life and kinship, and political and economic relationships. Part II analyzes in greater detail the religious implications of European administration and missionary efforts. In Part III the author shows how the malaise and increasing isolation of part of Fang culture achieve some assuagement of the Bwiti religion, which seeks a reconciliation of the past and present. James W. Fernandez is Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and author of many studies in this discipline. Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Fang (African people) --- Religion. --- Adultery. --- Animal sacrifice. --- Animism. --- Anthropophage. --- Aphorism. --- Apotheosis. --- Approbation. --- Backtracking. --- Bwiti. --- Cannibalism. --- Cardinal virtues. --- Cataclysm (Dragonlance). --- Celibacy. --- Cemetery. --- Chastity. --- Christianism. --- Creation myth. --- Crime. --- Deal with the Devil. --- Decentralization. --- Deprecation. --- Disparagement. --- Distrust. --- Endogamy. --- Exchange of women. --- Extended family. --- Flagellation. --- Freemasonry. --- French Colonial. --- Gluttony. --- Goliard. --- Good and evil. --- Grandparent. --- Heresy. --- His Favorite. --- Homeopathy. --- Impediment (canon law). --- Incest. --- Infidelity. --- Jerome Bruner. --- Jesuitism. --- MDMA. --- Male dominance (BDSM). --- Manifest destiny. --- Many Marriages. --- Martyr. --- Matthew 25. --- Max Gluckman. --- Meanness. --- Metonymy. --- Missionary. --- Moral suasion. --- Morality play. --- Mutual exclusion. --- Mythology. --- On Religion. --- On the Eve. --- Open society. --- Oppression. --- Our Sons. --- Outer darkness. --- Overcrowding. --- Paganism. --- Peace Corps. --- Persecution. --- Plural society. --- Promiscuity. --- Protestant work ethic. --- Pun. --- Purity and Danger. --- Religio Medici. --- Ritual purification. --- Romanticism. --- Scholasticism. --- Secularism. --- Secularization. --- Self-denial. --- Sense of Place. --- Spirituality. --- Spitting. --- State of the Heart (book). --- Superiority (short story). --- Supplication. --- Swinging (sexual practice). --- Taboo. --- Tattoo. --- The Africans (radio program). --- The Other Hand. --- Thomas Kuhn. --- To This Day. --- Transubstantiation. --- Travels (book). --- Trickster. --- Two-Spirit. --- V. --- Veneration of the dead. --- Warfare. --- White magic. --- Witch doctor. --- Fang (West African people)
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