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    The African magic can be transferred through various medium and modes. Some magic is scarce while some exist on a daily basis. Some magic is pronounced in physical ceremonies while some have become a routine. For instance, words directed to a child by the parent and sometimes, community seniors are said to possess a lot of power. Words can be used to curse bless, bring fortune, peace and success. Words spoken with anger or out of disappointment and pain have the potential to cause curses and misfortunes

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    The Magic Of The Piano An evil Adina came in palace and put the prince into jail. Now evil Adina and magician old witch started to rule over the kingertum kingdom. Kingertum kingdom's palace was not vacant with the lover of the prince Charles. Many friend of the prince shown their courage against the evil Adina. But they were assassinate brutally like the wild beast by her conspiracy. One of his friend hanged. The other ran away in the forest but he was chased and he killed by an evil Adina's arrow

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    The tale itself is also filled with many fantastical and magical elements that have been integrated into the characters’ reality in believable ways, qualifying The Alchemist to belong under magic realism, despite the fact

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    and sleight of hand to wow his fellow man with illusions and supposed feats of magic. For a long time, these tricks had to be performed in secret because they were forbidden by ruling powers and those who were found to be practicing what was believed to be black magic were sentenced to death and were usually executed by being burned at the stake. By the early 20th century, however, the public’s attitude towards magic had changed for the better and magicians and illusionists were treated as revered

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    Vindication of Prospero’s Magic by Shakespeare in The Tempest Introduction The Tempest is generally considered as Shakespeare's romantic and dramatic art. It also counted as one of Shakespeare's most professional plays. It is also regarded Shakespeare’s final play that he wrote. It represents Prospero, the magician, who gives up his magic in the last part of the play. The occasion for The Tempest was Shakespeare's expectation of his retirement. In many ways it is the decisive moment of Shakespeare’s

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    different types of magic that are being explored, one is the art of evil through the use of Black Magic and the other being the study of meta-physics and the unknown through the use of White Magic. The ‘black’ aspect of magic is revealed through the character of the evil witch Sycorax. The ‘white’ aspect of magic is revealed through the well-developed character of Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan. The good aspect of magic is developed to a much greater extent than the evil aspect of magic. The black

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    4.1 Magic Law

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    Magic Law The magic law found in this magical event is consistency. The logical construction of the secondary world is shown through the consistency of the magic’s power. Nikolajeva (1988) and Watts (2006) claim it is important to maintain the consistency of the secondary world. In order to make the story logical and comprehensible, the magic should work as it is instructed. Excerpt 4.11. … It was definitely the fire

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    Magic in The Renaissance Measure up to to the Renaissance era almost seven hundred years ago; the way of life today is much more progressive and sensible rather than swayed and somewhat inflexible ideas. In the culture of today, society is actually not as far removed from Renaissance thoughts and magical control, as it believed to be. The widely proposed definition to magic is the act of deception and illusion with the use of spell and abracadabra’s. However magic is greater than that, magic is power

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    Magic and ritual are often associated with vengeful gods and bloody sacrifices, possibly due to their representation in book, movies, and other forms of entertainment. One might think that they have no power to bring a community together, other than through fear. However, through the lives of the Trobriand islanders, well observed by the polish anthropologist and ethnographer Bronisław Malinowski, we see that rituals and customs maintained by a powerful connection to magic is a mechanism of social

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    Magic in The Renaissance To measure up to The Renaissance era, more or less seven hundred years ago; the way of life today is much more progressive and sensible rather than swayed by somewhat inflexible ideas. In the culture of today, society is actually not so far detached from Renaissance thoughts and magical control, as it is believed to be. The widely proposed definition of magic is the act of deception and illusion with the use of spells and abracadabra’s. However magic is greater than that

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