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  2. The Magician (tarot card) - Wikipedia

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    The Magician (I), from the Rider–Waite tarot deck. The Magician (I), also known as The Magus or The Juggler, is the first trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional tarot decks. It is used in game playing and divination. Within the card game context, the equivalent is the Pagat which is the lowest trump card, also known as the atouts or ...

  3. Psychological theories of magic - Wikipedia

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    As Marett describes, if the emotional situation proves common enough, the response becomes a socially-codified norm which outsiders understand as magic and which Marett labels “developed magic”. Claude Lévi-Strauss [ 5 ] and Ariel Glucklich [ 6 ] expand upon symbolic theory, positing that magic can serve as a form of psychotherapy or New ...

  4. Mundus inversus - Wikipedia

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    The Hanged Man from Tarot decks is a literal visualization of the mundus inversus, where the natural order of things is overturned.. Mundus inversus, Latin for "world upside-down," is a literary topos in which the natural order of things is overturned and social hierarchies are reversed.

  5. Glossary of magic (illusion) - Wikipedia

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    Magician's choice – see Force. Magician's rope – soft, usually white rope used for rope tricks. Magician's wax – wax used to temporarily attach objects. The earliest known magician's wax is beeswax. Manipulator – a magician with a showy sleight of hand act, often set to music. Mark – a subject for a con game.

  6. The High Priestess - Wikipedia

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    Secrets, mystery, the future as yet unrevealed; the woman who interests the Querent, if male; the Querent herself, if female; silence, tenacity; mystery, wisdom, science. Reversed: Passion, moral or physical ardor, conceit, surface knowledge. [9] In astrology, the High Priestess's primary correspondence is to the Moon. [3]

  7. History of magic - Wikipedia

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    The model of the magician in Christian thought was provided by Simon Magus, (Simon the Magician), a figure who opposed Saint Peter in both the Acts of the Apostles and the apocryphal yet influential Acts of Peter. [81] The historian Michael D. Bailey stated that in medieval Europe, magic was a "relatively broad and encompassing category". [82]

  8. Meghan Markle in ‘dire situation' amid rebrand ridicule: expert

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    Meghan Markle is in a "dire situation" after coming off as inauthentic in her Netflix show, "With Love, Meghan," a royal expert told Fox News Digital.

  9. Reverse psychology - Wikipedia

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    Reverse psychology is a technique involving the assertion of a belief or behavior that is opposite to the one desired, with the expectation that this approach will encourage the subject of the persuasion to do what is actually desired.