Download or read book Making Magic in Elizabethan England written by Frank Klaassen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents editions of two fascinating anonymous and untitled manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Frank Klaassen uses these texts, which he argues are representative of the overwhelming majority of magical practitioners, to explain how magic changed during this period and why these developments were crucial to the formation of modern magic. The Boxgrove Manual is a work of learned ritual magic that synthesizes material from Henry Cornelius Agrippa, the Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy, Heptameron, and various medieval conjuring works. The Antiphoner Notebook concerns the common magic of treasure hunting, healing, and protection, blending medieval conjuring and charm literature with materials drawn from Reginald Scot’s famous anti-magic work, Discoverie of Witchcraft. Klaassen painstakingly traces how the scribes who created these two manuscripts adapted and transformed their original sources. In so doing, he demonstrates the varied and subtle ways in which the Renaissance, the Reformation, new currents in science, the birth of printing, and vernacularization changed the practice of magic. Illuminating the processes by which two sixteenth-century English scribes went about making a book of magic, this volume provides insight into the wider intellectual culture surrounding the practice of magic in the early modern period.

Download or read book Advanced Potion Making written by Noel Green and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter a world of magic full of witches and wizards with this wonderfully written, fully complete work of fantasy. This potion book is completed with over 24 potions, complete with instructions, ingredients and spells. This isn't just another blank book to sit on your shelf but something you and your friends will want to read and study for years to come. Note: this is NOT a real potion book but is made for the fan of all things magical. At least we don't think any of the potions are real... but haven't tried them with actual unicorn horns or goblin blood so we might be wrong. For more information on this book check out my website here: http: //www.noelgreen.com/advanced-potion-making-replica#buypotionbook

Download or read book Rainbow Magic The Magical Crafts Fairies 147 Roxie the Baking Fairy written by Daisy Meadows and published by Orchard Books. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel and Kirsty are off to a very special cookie shop on Rainspell Island. But the cookies taste horrible! Can Rachel and Kirsty help Roxie the Baking Fairy get her magical cookie cutter back, before Jack Frost ruins all the sweet treats?

Download or read book Making Jewelry with Gemstone Beads written by Barbara Case and published by David and Charles. This book was released on 2007-10-19 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bead with beautiful gemstones and create dazzling earrings, bracelets, and more—includes over one hundred projects for all skill levels. You can learn to create gorgeous gemstone jewelry with this collection of over one hundred projects, ranging from eye-catching earrings and accessories to exquisite necklaces and bracelets. This beautiful book offers an impressive range of twenty-eight beautiful semi-precious stones (including birthstones) and a glimpse into the fascinating history and mythical properties behind them. Projects range from the simplest stringing to more detailed beadwork to cater for all levels of ability. Discover a variety of versatile ideas that can be adapted for any type of gem or bead—with clear artwork, vivid photos, and easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions.

Download or read book Letting Magic In written by Maia Toll and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Maia Toll, the best-selling author of the Wild Wisdom series and The Night School, comes the enchanted story of her own magical awakening, a journey from Brooklyn to Ireland that will inspire readers to uncover their own inner magic. "Toll focuses on her own winding path, one that will resonate with seekers." — People What is the word for craving a relationship with the earth, plants, rocks, and stars? What do you call someone who finds their spirit sparked by these relationships; whose concept of the sacred is altered by the scent of jasmine in bloom or the deep indigo of a sky awaiting nightfall? We’re taught that doctors know our bodies and priests know our souls. But what if you’re a person seeking to understand both for yourself without an intermediary? What is the word for these feelings and the person we become when we honor them? For writer Maia Toll, that word is magic. Magic points to something intrinsic to, and necessary for, the wholeness of the human spirit. It’s a marker for the gnawing craving for a connection which includes, but also stretches beyond, the human realm. The exploration of this word was part of her search for both personal empowerment and a sense of cosmic connectedness, the yin and yang of our lives. In Letting Magic In Maia shares the story of her own magical becoming—from the untimely death of a friend that leads her to abandon Brooklyn in favor of the small town of Beacon, NY, to taking a yearlong sabbatical of exploration, and finally to Ireland, where she studied under an herbalist and learned the true magic of listening to the earth itself. This book is the story of one woman's becoming—the story of pushing past the boundaries of what once seemed possible to discover the extraordinary all around us. In it Maia shares how she learned to let magic in so she could live the life she longed for—one filled with curiosity, connection, and the deepest kind of inner knowing. In this soulfully written recollection—peppered throughout with magical learnings and rituals gathered along the way—Maia uncovers the things that change you in unexpected ways and guide you to become the person you never knew you wanted to be, but perhaps, always were. This she could call magic. And through Letting Magic In you will gain the courage and the wisdom to find your own.

Download or read book My Magic Tree House Journal written by Mary Pope Osborne and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure is as close as your own backyard. . . . Even after the magic tree house brings Jack and Annie back home to Frog Creek, they never stop having adventures. They love to explore the world around them. Now it's your turn You can fill out this journal right along with Jack and Annie. What animals can you find where you live? What plants grow there? What are some of your favorite places? What stars can you find in the sky? The answers are all up to you in this fun companion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House(R) series Have even more fun with Jack and Annie on the Magic Tree House(R) website at MagicTreeHouse.com.

Download or read book Magical Jewelry Making Notebook written by Magyk Publishing and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Jewelry Making unicorn notebook / Journal makes an excellent gift for any occasion . Lined - Size: 6 x 9'' - Notebook - Journal - Planner - Dairy - 110 Pages - Classic White Lined Paper - For Writing, Sketching, Journals and Hand Lettering

Download or read book Magical Travels written by Sharon Breslin and published by Global Publishing Group. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Author, Tour Guide and Feng Shui Master Teacher, Sharon Breslin takes you on a truly magical journey as she shares her tale of adventures through mystical ancient lands. From the moment she stepped foot on Egyptian soil the mysteries began to unfold. There were chance meetings with strangers who passed on life changing messages, a moment high up in the mountains of Tibet where her third eye fully opened and so much more. Sharon's intrepid journeys have fed her gypsy soul unlocking her spiritual self in ways she could never have imagined. This book without a doubt will have you planning your next trip down the road less travelled. You'll Discover:* The reason you might feel unusually at home in a foreign land. Could you be reconnecting to a past life?* How to access age-old secrets and wisdom while sharing time with elders in ceremony on their sacred lands.* Why travelling on a spiritual pilgrimage is so powerful and beats a package holiday any day.* The importance of your dreams and how the spirit world communicates information to you during this time.* Tips and secrets on how to unlock and fast track your own spiritual wisdom.* How cellular memory is triggered and healing can be experienced at a very deep level.

Download or read book Laptop Bride written by Cathy Lynn and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the explosion of the World Wide Web, planning a wedding has never been more fun or filled with so many choices! The Internet allows you to personalize your wedding, find great ideas, prices, items you want and sometimes items you never knew existed. Best of all, you can shop anytime of day 24/7, in any type of weather, any kind of dress, and you don't have to worry about parking or salespeople. Laptop Bride's focus is to help you find what you are looking for quickly while saving aggravation and money. For example, who would have thought that you could rent a chocolate fountain over the internet? Well, you can! Perhaps the groom wants to forego the tux and wear an Elvis jumpsuit instead. Want to surprise your groom? Have a U.S. Flag flown over the capitol on your wedding day. Simply go to HomeofHeroes.com and order your flag (in advance of course) to fly at the exact time of your wedding! Need a recipe and directions to make the groom an armadillo cake? We have the links. We have links for designer gowns, veils, favors and more. Let's face it; shopping on-line is the ultimate in convenience, opportunity and fun.

Download or read book You Are Magical written by Tess Whitehurst and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2018-09-08 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Answer the Call... Since you were a child, you've heard the ancient, mesmerizing siren song of your inherent spiritual power. When you grew up, you never dismissed the idea that there's power at your fingertips—power you can use for crafting your world to match your desires. You've always felt that because you are magical. With dozens of spells for every major purpose, You Are Magical shows you how to fully embrace your spirituality and create positive change in yourself and the world. You'll discover the legacy of your magic, how it's uniquely yours, and exactly what ingredients and steps you need to craft a truly magnificent life. This practical and profoundly inspiring guide empowers you to become the person you were born to be: a magical agent of change who is connected with nature, the cosmos, and All That Is. Praise: "Every time I sit down with a book by Tess Whitehurst, I know I'm in for something special and You Are Magical does not disappoint! Tess shows us how to kick things up and find our own magic! Her deep knowledge and radiant love for magic is contagious!"—Jodi Livon, author of The Happy Medium® book series "For all who seek to unlock the very real magic within, Tess Whitehurst offers not just one key, but an entire golden key ring that opens the sacred mysteries of life and love. A generous and perceptive book!"—Sara Wiseman, author of Messages from the Divine and The Intuitive Path "I've been working on incorporating a little more magic and ritual into my life since I finished grad school, so I was excited to see this book. It has a little bit of everything, from brief touches on the history of Earth-based spiritual practices to ways to make the everyday a little more magical."—Book Riot

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Download or read book Contemporary American Jewelry Design written by Ettagale Blauer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Phenomenon of Studio Goldsmithing When the history of art in the 1980s is written, much of it will be etched in gold. This is the time of the contemporary goldsmith, an artist who chooses to work in precious metals rather than oils or marble. The contemporary jeweler-as-artist has only recently become a re cognized force. With rare exceptions, the whole field is little more than thirty years old. But it is only within the past fifteen years that these jewelers have entered the jewelry mainstream. The phenomenon of contemporary goldsmithing embraces an eclectic group of artists, each with a unique vision, each taking a per sonal path to jewelry producing. They have as little relationship to the typical, mass-produced jewelry as a champagne maker has to a bottler of orange soda. They approach a piece of art, not a piece of metal. The work is personal and a perfect expression of the "back to the land" movement that spawned it. Many of these goldsmiths were looking not merely for a way to make a living but for a way to make a life that was worthy of living. Running a business while trying to remain a creative metalsmith at the same time is the ongoing challenge. The jeweler-artists have solved or resolved these often conflicting needs in slightly different ways and in a beautiful variety of techniques and styles. Their meth ods, their growth, and their work are discussed here.

Download or read book I Am Magical written by Briana Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black, queer, magical girls save the world with the power of friendship and fantastic hair.

Download or read book The Year of Magical Thinking written by Joan Didion and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-02-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a life, in good times and bad—that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later—the night before New Year’s Eve—the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This powerful book is Didion’ s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness ... about marriage and children and memory ... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.

Download or read book Harry Potter Magical Creatures Hardcover Blank Sketchbook written by Insight Editions and published by Insights. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let the magical creatures of the wizarding world inspire your inner artist with this collectible Harry Potter–themed sketchbook! Featuring breathtaking concept art of Hippogriffs, dragons, Thestrals, and other magical creatures from the films, this deluxe sketchbook invites Harry Potter fans to bring their own magical creations to life within its blank pages. With sturdy construction and sewn binding, this sketchbook lies flat, and the 192 blank, acid-free pages of high-quality heavy stock paper take both pen and pencil nicely to invite a flow of inspiration. Includes a ribbon placeholder, elastic closure, and 6.5 x 9.75–inch back pocket, perfect for holding photographs and mementos.

Download or read book Tuareg Jewelry written by Helene E. Hagan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-06-06 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For you, it may look like a small unimportant detail, like your thumbnail. But for me, it is the whole vast world. Look at this jewel... here is the ant, here is the hyena, the jackal, the hoof of a horse, that of a gazelle, the sun, the moon, the stars, the good eye... this triangle, this is woman, and here are the eyebrows of the Malignant One, there, laughter... it is all of our lives in one piece of silver. (Translated from the French by Helene E. Hagan, from original Tuareg words of an artisan cited by J. Gabus, 1971) An extensive study of the symbolism of Tuareg jewelry has not yet been undertaken to date. It is this simple realization that brought the authors together in a decision to collect information on the topic, from past scholarly journals and books, contemporary articles and web sites, but also from Tuareg informants whose expert knowledge was sought. Though this book is small and does not aspire to be all encompassing, it is the first work totally dedicated to the presentation of the elaborate silver jewelry of Tuareg men and women of Northern Niger in the English language, and the only one we know that is solely dedicated to providing information concerning the function, meanings, and symbols of that jewelry. The book introduces the reader to the culture of the Tuaregs, a remarkable group of African nomads of the Sahara Desert, which has fascinated the Europeans who came into contact with them in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the last decade or so, as the Tuareg societies of Niger and Mali underwent major change, a number of American researchers began to document some of their ways. Research and publications in the English language are, however, lagging far behind those in the French language. Fortunately, the primary author of this book, Helene Hagan, was originally educated in the French language, and as an Amazigh (Berber) herself, is very familiar with North African scholarship in the Amazigh culture. Thus, as a bilingual anthropologist of Berber ancestry, born and raised in Morocco, and an activist for Amazigh cultural, linguistic and human rights, she benefits from a fourfold source of valuable information: French scholarship, American contemporary accounts, the latest Amazigh research emanating out of North Africa, and Northern Niger Tuareg informants she knows. This unique set of circumstances gives the book an extra dimension of depth and insight. The book recounts the myth of origin of the Kel Tamasheq of Niger, and looks at the continuity and development of symbols from archaic inscriptions and rock art of the Sahara to present-day engravings on silver jewelry and the Tifinagh alphabet. The second chapter is entirely devoted to retracing this development and showing the correspondence between Tifinagh characters of the Amazigh alphabet and the elegant, clear lines of geometric designs, which characterize the silver jewelry of the Tuareg people. The two are deeply connected. Modern Tifinagh Calligraphic Art is also featured in this chapter. The next chapter delves into the mystery of the famous Cross of Agadez and the various hypotheses that have been offered as to its meaning. It depicts the artisanal mode of production, and the functions the crosses hold for Tuareg people themselves. Nowadays, the production of crosses for the western world diminishes the role this cross, Tenghelet tan Agadez, had as a clan identifier. It has become, like other less well known pieces of Tuareg jewelry, a simple ornament or necklace devoid of any particular significance, and the markings on those crosses are losing some of their intentions of yore. The book reviews specific masculine jewelry and feminine adornment in the next two chapters, and looks at the role various pieces of silver jewelry play in the relations

Download or read book A Compendium of Curiosities written by Tim Holtz and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not your typical how to book, but inspirational papercraft and mixed media projects designed by Tim Holtz.