Oriental Magic
Author : Idries Shah
Publisher : Octagon Press Ltd
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,13 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Magic
ISBN : 0863040179
Author : Idries Shah
Publisher : Octagon Press Ltd
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,13 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Magic
ISBN : 0863040179
Author : Harlan Tarbell
Publisher :
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 23,5 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Magic tricks
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 35,52 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Magic tricks
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Author : Chris Goto-Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1107076595
This book charts the history of modern magic across India, China and Japan, analyzing representations in the cultural imagination of the West.
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Page : 328 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Magic tricks
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Author : Joseph Dunninger
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Card tricks
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Author : Idries Shah
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Magic
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Author : David Copperfield
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1982112913
In this personal journey through a unique performing art, David Copperfield profiles some of the world's most groundbreaking magicians. From the sixteenth-century magistrate who wrote an early book on conjuring, to the roaring twenties and the man who fooled Houdini, to the woman who levitated, vanished, and caught bullets in her bare hands, David Copperfield's History of Magic takes you on a wild journey through the remarkable feats of some of the greatest magicians in history. The result is a sweeping tale that reveals how these astonishing performers were outsiders who used magic to escape class, challenge conventions, transform popular culture, explore the innermost workings of the human mind, and inspire scientific discovery. Their incredible stories are complemented by more than 100 never-before-seen photographs of artifacts from Copperfield's exclusive Museum of Magic, including a sixteenth-century manual on sleight-of-hand; Houdini's straitjackets, handcuffs, and water torture chamber; Dante's famous sawing-in-half apparatus; Alexander's high-tech turban that allowed him to read people's minds; and even some coins that may have magically passed through the hands of Abraham Lincoln. By the end of the book, you'll be sure to share Copperfield's passion for the power of magic. --
Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 2012-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674065077
Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exoticization of magic, and the growing acceptance of myth and magic in contemporary experience.
Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Magic
ISBN : 9789042912274
Deities, demons, and angels became important protagonists in the magic of the Late Antique world, and were also the main reasons for the condemnation of magic in the Christian era. Supplicatory incantations, rituals of coercion, enticing suffumigations, magical prayers and mystical songs drew spiritual powers to the humain domain. Next to the magician's desire to regulate fate and fortune, it was the communion with the spirit world that gave magic the potential to purify and even deify its practitioners. The sense of elation and the awareness of a metaphysical order caused magic to merge with philosophy (notably Neoplatonism). The heritage of Late Antique theurgy would be passed on to the Arab world, and together with classical science and learning would take root again in the Latin West in the High Middle Ages. The metamorphosis of magic laid out in this book is the transformation of ritual into occult philosophy against the background of cultural changes in Judaism, Graeco-Roman religion and Christianity. This volume, the first in the new series Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, offers the papers presented at the workshop The Metamorphosis of Magic from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period held from 22 to 24 June 2000, and organised by Jan N. Bremmer and Jan R. Veenstra. The papers have been written by scholars from such varying disciplines as classics, theology, philosophy, cultural history, and law. Their contributions shed new light upon several old obscurities; they show magic to be a significant area of culture, and they advance the case for viewing transformations in the lore and practice of magic as a barometer with which to measure cultural change.