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Author Castiglioni, Arturo, 1874-1953.

Uniform Title Incantesimo e magia. English
Title Adventures of the mind / Arturo Castiglioni ; translated from the Italian by V. Gianturco.

Imprint New York : A.A. Knopf, c1946.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  133.409 C278a 1946    ---  Available
Description xviii, 428, v p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Note "A part [of this book] ... was published in Milan (Mondadori, 1934) under the title Incantesimo e magia."--Pref.
"First American edition."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-428) and index.
Contents The human mind is adventurous -- The spell of life and death -- Evocation and dreams -- Divination -- The personality of the magician -- Magic tools : amulets, talismans, fetishes -- Practices, formulas, rites, and symbols -- The secret societies and their laws -- The magic circle -- Chinese magic of numbers and letters -- Magic systems of the American Indians -- Fantastic magic of the Hindus -- State magic of Egypt -- Assyro-Babylonian speculative magic -- Hebrew magic and the dawn of monotheism -- Magic and mysteries of ancient Greece -- Trends of official magic in ancient Italy -- Magic and mysticism -- Enter the devil and the witch -- The occult sciences -- Natural magic -- The Renaissance of science -- Romantic magic ideology in the eighteenth century -- Aspects of modern magic : divination -- The metaphysic of spiritism -- The suggestion that heals : magic therapy -- The suggestion that heals : the political myths.
Subject Magic.
Occultism.
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.

 
    
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