| 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. |
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"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.
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Occultism.
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Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
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