Download or read book Enqu te sur les plantes magiques written by Michèle Bilimoff and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mandragore, aconit, belladone, digitale, datura mais aussi lys, rose ou trèfle... Toutes ces plantes, et bien d'autres, sont "magiques", tour à tour maléfiques, divinatoires, protectrices ou consolatrices... Pourquoi certaines plantes ont-elles été reconnues comme " magiques " depuis la nuit des temps ? Pourquoi sont-elles toujours investies de ces pouvoirs aux yeux d'un si grand nombre de personnes, en un siècle où la science progresse à grands pas ? A quoi servent-elles ? De quelle façon ? Comme dans une enquête policière, l'auteur a cherché des réponses à ces questions en examinant les faits, des témoignages vieux de plusieurs millénaires jusqu'à ceux de nos contemporains. Peu à peu se dégage la passionnante histoire de ces plantes magiques, complices des humains pour le pire et le meilleur. Coupables ou innocentes, elles sont toujours là, proches de nous, à la fois bien réelles mais aussi tout auréolées du mystère et des espérances que les humains leur ont ajoutées. Tandis que la science précise les durs contours du réel, ces plantes magiques contribuent à apporter cette part de rêve dont chacun d'entre nous a besoin.
Download or read book The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion written by Alexandra Livarda and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion is the first volume dedicated to exploring ritual and religious practice in past societies from a variety of ‘environmental’ remains. Building on recent debates surrounding, for instance, performance, materiality and the false dichotomy between ritualistic and secular behavior, this book investigates notions of ritual and religion through the lens of perishable material culture. Research centering on bioarchaeological evidence and drawing on methods from archaeological science has traditionally focused on functional questions surrounding environment and economy. However, recent years have seen an increased recognition of the under-exploited potential for scientific data to provide detailed information relating to ritual and religious practice. This volume explores the diverse roles of plant, animal, and other organic remains in ritual and religion, as foods, offerings, sensory or healing mediums, grave goods, and worked artifacts. It also provides insights into how archaeological science can shed light on the reconstruction of ritual processes and the framing of rituals. The 14 papers showcase current and new approaches in the investigation of bioarchaeological evidence for elucidating complex social issues and worldviews. The case studies are intentionally broad, encompassing a range of sub-disciplines of bioarchaeology including archaeobotany, anthracology, palynology, micromorphology, geoarchaeology, zooarchaeology (including avian and worked bone studies), archaeomalacology, and organic residue analysis. The temporal and geographical coverage is equally wide, extending across Europe from the Mediterranean and Aegean to the Baltic and North Atlantic regions, and from the Mesolithic to the medieval period. The volume also includes a discursive paper by Prof. Brian Hayden, who suggests a different interpretative framework of archaeological contexts and rituals.
Download or read book Perception of the Invisible written by Anne Storch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Importance and Values of Wild Plants and Animals in Africa written by John Benjamin Sale and published by IUCN. This book was released on 1983 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Traditional Magic Spells for Protection and Healing written by Claude Lecouteux and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth collection of ancient spells and magic practices drawn from rare and newly discovered texts • Presents more than 600 magical prescriptions for healing and protection from both pagan and Christian sources • Examines the practice of diagnosing illness through magic and explores ancient beliefs about curses and other evil spells and about devils, demons, and ghosts • Includes spells from the heavily guarded gypsy tradition of magic and healing, drawn from newly discovered materials Since the beginning of history, people have sought remedies for the many ills that have beset them, from illnesses afflicting the body to threats posed by evil and hostile individuals. In many folk healing and pagan traditions, it was believed that one must gain the assistance of the guardian spirit of a healing plant or substance through prayers or offerings before its chemical properties would be effective. The Church decried these spells and practices as pagan superstition but did not seek to exterminate these beliefs, instead transferring the responsibility for their healing powers to the apostles and saints. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of ancient texts, Claude Lecouteux presents more than 600 magical prescriptions from both pagan and Christian sources from the last 2,000 years, covering everything from abscesses and shingles to curses and healing animals. He examines the practice of diagnosing illness through magic and looks at the origins of disease according to the evolving beliefs of magic practitioners over the centuries. He explores ancient beliefs about curses and about devils, demons, and ghosts and provides an in-depth look at protection magic, including protection of health, animals, and cultivated land, protection against curses, witchcraft, bad weather, and beasts, protection of a home, and protection while traveling. He includes spells from the heavily guarded gypsy tradition of magic and healing, drawn from newly discovered materials collected by two Romanian ethnologists who lived and traveled with gypsies in Transylvania in the mid-19th century. The author also reproduces rare texts on magic healing from the 14th and 15th centuries. Revealing the vitality of these practices in the remoter areas of Eastern Europe, Lecouteux shows how the influence of this pagan worldview is still detectable in the work of modern folk healers in France and Scandinavia. He also shows how the condemnation of unorthodox methods of healing has not vanished from the contemporary world: the medieval legislation against healing by wizards and bonesetters is echoed in modern health codes that challenge the authority of naturopaths and faith healers.
Download or read book Small Things Wide Horizons written by Lars Larsson and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication honours Birgitta Hardh on her 70th birthday. Birgitta Hardh is one of the leading experts on European Viking Age, engaged in diverse research projects, and also a vital collaborator in various networks specializing in the period. Through time, Birgitta has extended her research to comprise other periods of the Iron Age.
Download or read book Medicines and Foods written by Ekkehard Schröder and published by IRD Orstom. This book was released on 1996 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Index Africanus written by J. O. Asamani and published by Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Index Africanus is a catalogue of articles in Western languages dealing with Africa and published from 1885 to 1965 in periodicals, Festschriften or memorial volumes, symposia, and proceedings of congresses and conferences.
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Manus medica written by Françoise Gaide and published by Presses de L'Université de Provence. This book was released on 2003 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
