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While derived from real-world vocabulary, the terms: magician, mage, magus, enchanter/enchantress, sorcerer/sorceress, warlock, witch, and wizard, each have different meanings depending upon context and the story in question. [3]: 619 Archmage is used in fantasy works to indicate a powerful magician or a leader of magicians. [3]: 1027
Wands and staves often feature in fantasy works in the hands of wizards. [9] Italian fairy tales had put wands into the hands of the powerful fairies by the late Middle Ages. [10] Talismans such as rings or amulets may exert magical influence. [11] Seven-league boots and invisibility cloaks have also proven popular.
According to scholar of religion Henrik Bogdan, "arguably the best known emic definition" of the term magic was provided by Crowley. [214] Crowley—who favoured the spelling 'magick' over magic to distinguish it from stage illusionism [215] —was of the view that "Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with ...
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 ...
Medusa is one of the most powerful mythological figures of all time. She had the power to petrify a person with a single glance—and we mean quite literally turn a person to stone.
Throughout such debates, the scholarly community has failed to agree on a definition of magic, in a similar manner to how they have failed to agree on a definition of religion. [168] According with scholar of religion Michael Stausberg the phenomenon of people applying the concept of magic to refer to themselves and their own practices and ...
Connotations of magic have varied from positive to negative at times throughout history, [20] Within Western culture, magic has been linked to ideas of the Other, [21] foreignness, [22] and primitivism; [23] indicating that it is "a powerful marker of cultural difference" [24] and likewise, a non-modern phenomenon. [25]
Some of the magical artefacts were of great power, including the Palantíri or Stones of Seeing, but by far the most powerful was the One Ring, made by the Dark Lord Sauron and embodying much of his former power. Scholars have written that Tolkien felt the need for a magical cosmology to counter modernity's war against mystery and magic.