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Magic

Magic: "Magic help" may be got by calling on the friendly magician's name.

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Magic: "Magic help" may be got by calling on the friendly magician's name. (Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX), The Danish History, > Books I-Ix > Magic And Folk-Science.)

Magic takes us back to a very primitive and loose manner of thinking; so the man'^ellously easy way in which it identifies any tie of association, however flimsy, with the insoluble bond of relationsh (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX)

  • attestation: Magic: "Magic help" may be got by calling on the friendly magician's name. (The Danish History, > Books I-Ix > Magic And Folk-Science.)

    ""Magic help" may be got by calling on the friendly magician's name."

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

  • attestation: Magic takes us back to a very primitive and loose manner of thinking; so the man'^ellously easy way in which it identifies any tie of association, however flimsy, with the insoluble bond of relationsh (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

    "Magic takes us back to a very primitive and loose manner of thinking; so the man'^ellously easy way in which it identifies any tie of association, however flimsy, with the insoluble bond of relationship which educated men and women regard as connecting cause and effect, renders even simpler means than I have described quite equal to the undoing of the evils resulting from the activity of the evil eye."

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