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  2. Sorcery (goetia) - Wikipedia

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    Page from the Greek Magical Papyri, a grimoire of antiquity. A grimoire (also known as a "book of spells", "magic book", or a "spellbook") is a textbook of magic, typically including instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms, and divination, and how to summon or invoke supernatural entities such as angels, spirits, deities ...

  3. Ars Notoria - Wikipedia

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    The Ars Notoria (in English: Notory Art) is a 13th-century Latin textbook of magic (now retroactively called a grimoire) from northern Italy. It claims to grant its practitioner an enhancement of their mental faculties, the ability to communicate with angels, and earthly and heavenly knowledge through ritual magic .

  4. List of occult terms - Wikipedia

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    It can also refer to other non-religious supernatural ideas like extra-sensory perception and parapsychology. The occult (from the Latin word occultus "clandestine, hidden, secret") is "knowledge of the hidden". [1]

  5. Magic (supernatural) - Wikipedia

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    Ars Magica or magic is a major component and supporting contribution to the belief and practice of spiritual, and in many cases, physical healing throughout the Middle Ages. Emanating from many modern interpretations lies a trail of misconceptions about magic, one of the largest revolving around wickedness or the existence of nefarious beings ...

  6. Magic word - Wikipedia

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    (literally "Swan, hold fast") - a spell used by the Youngest Brother in the tale "The Magic Swan" in the collection of Ludwig Bechstein. This spell made the people, who touched his magic swan, stick to the latter. Shimbaree, Shimbarah, Shimbaree, Shimbarah – used on the children's video and TV series Barney and the Backyard Gang and Barney ...

  7. List of demons in the Ars Goetia - Wikipedia

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    The etymology of his name seems to be the Latin word 'vinea', vine, that is also the name given to an ancient war machine made of wood and covered with leather and branches, used to overthrow walls. Balam (also Balaam, Balan) is a great and powerful king of Hell who commands over forty legions of demons. He gives perfect answers on things past ...

  8. Category:Magic (supernatural) - Wikipedia

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    Magic is an attempt to understand, experience and influence the world using rituals, symbols, actions, gestures and language. Modern theories of magic may see it as the result of a universal sympathy where some act can produce a result somewhere else, or as a collaboration with spirits who cause the effect.

  9. Magic (game terminology) - Wikipedia

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    In this system, the player character can only memorize a fixed number of spells from a list of spells. Once this spell is used once, the character forgets it and becomes unable to use it again. [1] [4] [5] [6] "Mana" is a word that comes from Polynesian languages with a complex meaning. Mostly, it loosely represents power, respect and dignity.