Download or read book Everyday Magicians written by Sharon Hubbs Wright and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the women and men who practiced magic in Tudor England were not hanged or burned as witches, despite being active members of their communities. These everyday magicians responded to common human problems such as the vagaries of money, love, property, and influence, and they were essential to the smooth functioning of English society. This illuminating book tells their stories through the legal texts in which they are named and the magic books that record their practices. In legal terms, their magic fell into the category of sin or petty crime, the sort that appeared in the lower courts and most often in church courts. Despite their relatively lowly status, scripts for the sorts of magic they practiced were recorded in contemporary manuscripts. Juxtaposing and contextualizing the legal and magic manuscript records creates an unusually rich field to explore the social aspects of magic practice. Expertly constructed for both classroom use and independent study, this book presents in modern English the legal documents and magic texts relevant to ordinary forms of magic practiced in Tudor England. These are accompanied by scholarly introductions with original perspectives on the subjects. Topics covered include: the London cunning man Robert Allen; magic to identify thieves; love magic; magic for hunting, fishing and gambling, and magic for healing and protection.
Download or read book Anja written by Michelangelo La Neve and published by Humanoids Inc. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fantastical saga of sorcery, love, and adventure, featuring a young magician's quest to becoming a man.
Download or read book Day of the Magicians written by Michelangelo La Neve and published by Humanoids, Incorporated. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fantastical saga of sorcery, love, and adventure, featuring a young magician's quest to becoming a man. Drazen has completed his magician’s training and is now ready to carry out the mission conferred upon him by his caste: to find and take down the renegade sorcerer Lancaster, his own father. Torn between his duty, the desire to find the love of his parents, and the pursuit of his own life-long love, the young magician will be left with the most difficult of choices.
Download or read book Everyday Magic for Kids written by Justin Flom and published by Running Press Kids. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect the art of magic with simple every day objects and tips from professional magician Justin Flam. Using every day objects, daring magician Justin Flom (434K Facebook followers and 153K subscribers on YouTube) will teach kids all they need to know to perform 30 amazing and how-did-you-do-that magic tricks at the turn of a hat. Featuring step-by-step instructions and illustrations, Everyday Magic for Kids will give budding magicians all the tips they need in order to wow their friends and family, whether at home, at school, or on the go. Tricks will vary from card tricks to tricks with coins and other small objects to tricks that can be done with friends/family members. The book also includes introductory material about how to act like a magician and the basics of performing magic in front of an audience (be it a friend or a room of people).
Download or read book The Final Circle written by Michelangelo La Neve and published by Humanoids Inc. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fantastical saga of sorcery, love, and adventure, featuring a young magician's quest to becoming a man.
Download or read book Self Working Table Magic written by Karl Fulves and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninety-seven mystifying tricks done with ordinary objects that can be borrowed from the audience. Make coins appear or disappear; matchsticks jump into the air; classic cups and balls; more. 185 illustrations.
Download or read book Sleights of Mind written by Susana Martinez-Conde and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can magic tell us about ourselves and our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable conversation, did you know you're using attentional 'misdirection', a core technique of magic? And if you've ever bought an expensive item you'd sworn never to buy, you were probably unaware that the salesperson was, like an accomplished magician, a master at creating the 'illusion of choice'. Leading neuroscientists Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde meet with magicians from all over the world to explain how the magician's art sheds light on consciousness, memory, attention, and belief. As the founders of the new discipline of NeuroMagic, they combine cutting-edge scientific research with startling insights into the tricks of the magic trade. By understanding how magic manipulates the processes in our brains, we can better understand how we work - in fields from law and education to marketing, health and psychology - for good and for ill.
Download or read book Amazing Irv s Handbook of Everyday Magic written by Irv Furman and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for a little magic in your life? Presto! Here’s Amazing Irv’s Handbook of Everyday Magic—a hip, how-to guide to making magic with everyday objects in everyday situations! With the expert guidance of Amazing Irv, you’ll learn all the tricks of the conjuring trade. Using nothing more than your own two hands and the everyday items around you—cell phones, saltshakers, airsickness bags, TV remote controls, and others—you’ll be mystifying family, friends, coworkers, and fellow commuters in no time flat. More than 45 astounding tricks—complete with step-by-step instructions and detailed illustrations—are within these pages, divided into sections on magic at home, at work, on the go, and on the town. Learn to: • Magically Feed a Parking Meter • Pull a Banana Out of Thin Air • Use Your Calculator to Predict the Future • Make a Shot Glass Vanish • Make Time Stand Still, and more! Be ready to create magic anytime, anyplace with this entertaining book for magicians of all ages.
Download or read book Everyday Magic in Early Modern Europe written by Kathryn A. Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While pre-modern Europe is often seen as having an 'enchanted' or 'magical' worldview, the full implications of such labels remain inconsistently explored. Witchcraft, demonology, and debates over pious practices have provided the main avenues for treating those themes, but integrating them with other activities and ideas seen as forming an enchanted Europe has proven to be a much more difficult task. This collection offers one method of demystifying this world of everyday magic. Integrating case studies and more theoretical responses to the magical and preternatural, the authors here demonstrate that what we think of as extraordinary was often accepted as legitimate, if unusual, occurrences or practices. In their treatment of and attitudes towards spirit-assisted treasure-hunting, magical recipes, trials for sanctity, and visits by guardian angels, early modern Europeans showed more acceptance of and comfort with the extraordinary than modern scholars frequently acknowledge. Even witchcraft could be more pervasive and less threatening than many modern interpretations suggest. Magic was both mundane and mysterious in early modern Europe, and the witches who practiced it could in many ways be quite ordinary members of their communities. The vivid cases described in this volume should make the reader question how to distinguish the ordinary and extraordinary and the extent to which those terms need to be redefined for an early modern context. They should also make more immediate a world in which magic was an everyday occurrence.
Download or read book The Magicians written by Lev Grossman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lev Grossman’s new novel THE BRIGHT SWORD will be on sale July 2024 The New York Times bestselling novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world, now an original series on SYFY “The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea. . . . Hogwarts was never like this.” —George R.R. Martin “Sad, hilarious, beautiful, and essential to anyone who cares about modern fantasy.” —Joe Hill “A very knowing and wonderful take on the wizard school genre.” —John Green “The Magicians may just be the most subversive, gripping and enchanting fantasy novel I’ve read this century.” —Cory Doctorow “This gripping novel draws on the conventions of contemporary and classic fantasy novels in order to upend them . . . an unexpectedly moving coming-of-age story.” —The New Yorker “The best urban fantasy in years.” —A.V. Club Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A high school math genius, he’s secretly fascinated with a series of children’s fantasy novels set in a magical land called Fillory, and real life is disappointing by comparison. When Quentin is unexpectedly admitted to an elite, secret college of magic, it looks like his wildest dreams have come true. But his newfound powers lead him down a rabbit hole of hedonism and disillusionment, and ultimately to the dark secret behind the story of Fillory. The land of his childhood fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he ever could have imagined. . . . The prequel to the New York Times bestselling book The Magician King and the #1 bestseller The Magician's Land, The Magicians is one of the most daring and inventive works of literary fantasy in years. No one who has escaped into the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter should miss this breathtaking return to the landscape of the imagination.
Download or read book Everyday Magic Magic Tricks to Shock Using What is in Your Pocket Coins Notes Handkerchiefs Cigarettes written by Anon and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not for the faint-hearted, this book contains an impressive variety of magic tricks using small props you might easily carry in your pocket. Its 79 pages contain a wealth of anecdote and information on tricks and stunts that are guaranteed to liven up your dinner party. Thoroughly recommended reading for the budding magician. Extensively illustrated with black and white explanatory drawings and diagrams. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
Download or read book Everyday Magic written by Vivianne Crowley and published by David & Charles. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The High Priestess and author of Wicca presents an accessible introduction to magic in the modern world. Exploring how you can integrate magic into your daily life, Vivianne Crowley shows that contemporary self-help methods are rooted in magical practices. She explains how magic can help us discover and unfold our potential selves, and how we can use magic as a force for good to heal and remove fears. Vivianne dispels modern myths of magic as wizards, dragons, or evil sorcerers and explores ways that magic can be applied in the twenty-first century to help us become more self-aware and empowered in our everyday lives. Everyday Magic is part of The Paranormal, a series that resurrects rare titles, classic publications, and out-of-print texts, as well as publishes new supernatural and otherworldly ebooks for the digital age. The series includes a range of paranormal subjects from angels, fairies, and UFOs to near-death experiences, vampires, ghosts, and witchcraft. Praise for Vivianne Crowley’s Wicca: A Comprehensive Guide to the Old Religion in the Modern World “This book is an excellent introduction to the modern practices and beliefs of the revived Craft and can be thoroughly recommended.” —Prediction “At last, a really thorough and authoritative exposition of present day coven witchcraft.” —Quest
Download or read book Magic with Everyday Objects written by George Schindler and published by Scarborough House. This book was released on 1999-12-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic with Everyday Objects is an easy-to-follow how-to manual for novice magicians or those interested in picking up a few easy tricks to entertain at a moment's notice.
Download or read book 101 Easy to Do Magic Tricks written by Bill Tarr and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVIllustrations, simple instructions for performing over 100 tricks, including The Inexhaustible Hat, The Chinese Rings, Steel Through Steel, Fingers That See, much more. /div
Download or read book Tanaka written by Michelangelo La Neve and published by Humanoids Inc. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fantastical saga of sorcery, love, and adventure, featuring a young magician's quest to becoming a man.
Download or read book The Magic of Rogues written by Frank Klaassen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1510, nine men were tried in the Archbishop’s Court in York for attempting to find and extract a treasure on the moor near Mixindale through necromantic magic. Two decades later, William Neville and his magician were arrested by Thomas Cromwell for having engaged in a treasonous combination of magic practices and prophecy surrounding the death of William’s older brother, Lord Latimer, and the king. In The Magic of Rogues, Frank Klaassen and Sharon Hubbs Wright present the legal documents about and open a window onto these fascinating investigations of magic practitioners in early Tudor England. Set side by side with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts that describe the sorts of magic those practitioners performed, these documents are translated, contextualized, and presented in language accessible to nonspecialist readers. Their analysis reveals how magicians and cunning folk operated in extended networks in which they exchanged knowledge, manuscripts, equipment, and even clients; foregrounds magicians’ encounters with authority in ways that separate them from traditional narratives about witchcraft and witch trials; and suggests that the regulation and punishment of magic in the Tudor period were comparatively and perhaps surprisingly gentle. Incorporating the study of both intellectual and legal sources, The Magic of Rogues presents a well-rounded picture of illicit learned magic in early Tudor England. Engaging and accessible, this book will appeal to anyone seeking to understand the intersection of medieval legal history, religion, magic, esotericism, and Tudor history.
Download or read book Magic for Liars written by Sarah Gailey and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL Sharp, mainstream fantasy meets compelling thrills of investigative noir in Magic for Liars, a fantasy debut by rising star Sarah Gailey. Ivy Gamble was born without magic and never wanted it. Ivy Gamble is perfectly happy with her life – or at least, she’s perfectly fine. She doesn't in any way wish she was like Tabitha, her estranged, gifted twin sister. Ivy Gamble is a liar. When a gruesome murder is discovered at The Osthorne Academy of Young Mages, where her estranged twin sister teaches Theoretical Magic, reluctant detective Ivy Gamble is pulled into the world of untold power and dangerous secrets. She will have to find a murderer and reclaim her sister—without losing herself. “An unmissable debut.”—Adrienne Celt, author of Invitation to a Bonfire At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
