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  • Sorcery
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    SORCERY see incantation ; magic ; spell ; witchcraft . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
     
  • Witchcraft
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    WITCHCRAFT a form of sorcery, or the magical manipulation...interchangeably. European diabolical witchcraft was a form of sorcery that appealed to pre...neopaganism. This form of witchcraft has nothing to do with sorcery, and is instead based...
     
  • Magic , in Religion and Superstition
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...or of black magic. See also voodoo ; witchcraft . See J. Frazer, The Golden Bough...J. Middleton, comp., Magic, Witchcraft, and Curing (1967); M. Marwick, Witchcraft and Sorcery (1970); M. Christopher, The Illustrated...
     
  • Magic , in Entertainment
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...17th cent. magic was also commonly associated with witchcraft or sorcery and, although magicians called themselves jugglers...association was in Reginald Scots The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1554), which explained sleight of hand and asserted...
     
  • Lycanthropy
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...lycanthrope, akin to the vampire, is thought to undergo his change by means of witchcraft or magic. In the Middle Ages the church condemned lycanthropy as a form of sorcery and often ruthlessly punished the supposed offenders. The term is also applied...
     

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