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  2. Apotropaic magic - Wikipedia

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    Another way for protection from enchantment used by the ancient Greeks was by spitting into the folds of the clothes. [ 10 ] Ancient Greeks also had an old custom of dressing boys as girls in order to avert the evil eye.

  3. Incantation - Wikipedia

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    An incantation, spell, charm, enchantment, or bewitchery is a magical formula intended to trigger a magical effect on a person or objects. The formula can be spoken, sung, or chanted . An incantation can also be performed during ceremonial rituals or prayers .

  4. Enchantment (social sciences) - Wikipedia

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    Enchantment is a term widely used to describe something delightful, possibly magical, that causes a feeling of wonder. It has been adapted by a range of scholars across multiple disciplines, especially anthropology and sociology, and then later urban studies, to describe the ways in which people create moments of wonder in the midst of everyday life.

  5. Enchantment - Wikipedia

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    Enchantment, enchanting or enchantingly may refer to: Look up enchanting , enchantingly , or enchantment in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Incantation or enchantment, a magical spell, charm, or bewitchment, in traditional fairy tales or fantasy

  6. The Enchanted World - Wikipedia

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    The Enchanted World was a series of twenty-one books published in the time period 1984-1987. Each book focused on different aspects of mythology, fairy tales or folklore, and all were released by Time-Life Books. [1]

  7. Apophatic theology - Wikipedia

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    Ancient and medieval; Anselm of Canterbury; Augustine of Hippo; Avicenna; Averroes; Boethius; Gaudapada; Al-Ghazali; Gaunilo of Marmoutiers; Pico della Mirandola; Heraclitus; King James VI and I

  8. The Uses of Enchantment - Wikipedia

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    In the U.S., Bettelheim and The Uses of Enchantment won the 1976 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism [8] and the 1977 National Book Award in category Contemporary Thought. [9] Robert A. Segal writes, "It is the disjunction between Bettelheim's up-to-date approach to fairy tales and his old-fashioned approach to myths that is ...

  9. Enchant - Wikipedia

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    Enchant may refer to: Performing an incantation; Enchant (band), a progressive rock band; Enchant, a 2003 album by Emilie Autumn; Enchant (software), a spell-checker;