The Guardian

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One eve of Witchfest event, radicals say they believe magic and occult are natural extensions of feminism and eco activism

All About History

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Many people don’t believe in magic. But many people have in the past, and many people do now. Those who don’t might dismiss this as silly, pointing out that there is no secret Harry Potter world hidden behind the mundane realities of everyday life. B

Poets & Writers

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Don’t Come Back (Mad River Books, January), a collection of lyric essays and experimental translations exploring identity and history, Colombian mythology, and the search for home across two countries. Editor: Kristen Elias Rowley. Agent: Erin Harris

SFX

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McKee’s upbringing instilled him with a love of the magical, and it’s something he believes we could all do with a little more of. “I was brought up in South Devon with witches and ghosts and all that kind of thing,” he recalls. “Living on the edge o

Literary Hub

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When I write poems, I am a saint. I am unattached from the body of the world and living only in its breath—and every passing moment in between each breath is an immortal joy. I don’t write to capture this beatification; I write to find my way into it

All Creatures

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Little butterfly,Yellow and blackWith half of one wing missing,I sigh for you,And yet you fly,Struggling on,From one gold sun drop to another,Visiting flowers toFulfill your destiny. You do not whine or quit,Bemoan your fate,Ask, “Why me?”Or pray fo

Literary Hub

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On Wednesday, N.K. Jemisin—the “Hugo-winning, bestselling, science fiction and fantasy-writing, cat-owning, bike riding, video game playing, Southern-raised but New York dwelling full-time author, and part-time reviewer for the New York Times,” as sh

PLAY

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FORMAT PS4 / ETA 2019 PUB TEAM17 / DEV THE GAME KITCHEN Gaming’s attitude seems to be ‘better the devil you know’ as we’ve enjoyed a deluge of hellbent titles recently. While Agony was miserable as sin to play, a new subgenre has sprung up in its wa

SFX

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Tell us about your protagonist. Evey is 15, and along with her younger sister Dill has been raised in “the witching way” by her mother. But she’s looking to make her own way, to be free of her family. That’s when the witch hunters arrive and change h

NPR

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Elissa Washuta's White Magic is full of magic — and pain — as it deals with trauma while exploring cultural inheritance and the way attacks on Native women never stopped.

BBC History Magazine

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Ellie Cawthorne: Your new book surveys a vast array of magical beliefs throughout human history. How do you define magic? Chris Gosden: My definition of magic is a human openness to the universe. And a universe’s openness to people. Let me give you

Fortean Times

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Personally, I blame that Aleister Crowley. If my memory serves me well (which, these days, it seldom does), Hunt Emerson and I more or less drifted into creating ‘Lives of the Great Occultists’ after I told him a couple of my favourite yarns about th

C Magazine

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In 1499, Johannes Trithemius, a German scholar and advisor to Emperor Maximilian, sent a letter to his friend Arnold Bostius regarding Steganographia, a new book he was working on. The letter described the work as involving methods to communicate acr

All About History

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While ceremonial magic used ritual to conjure powers, there was a whole tradition of magic that thought that the universe already expressed potent forces that, with the correct knowledge, you could use. Natural magic has existed for as long as humans

All About History

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Author Christina Riggs Publisher Thames & Hudson Price £14.95 Released Out now If you have ever fancied soaring through the skies, searched for a magical amulet to keep demons from their door, or even hankered for a sightseeing trip to the land of

60 Days of Prayer

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For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. PSALM 91:11–12 (NIV) IN THE ABOVE verse, the devil misquotes Scripture to tempt

NPR

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In 1938, a housewife went to the press complaining of a poltergeist in her home — and a ghost hunter investigated. Kate Summerscale's true tale is about women and power, anxiety, and choices.

Literary Hub

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Red Ink is a quarterly series curated and hosted by Michele Filgate at Books are Magic, focusing on women writers, past and present. The next conversation, “Defiance,” will take place online on June 11th at 7 pm, and feature Afia Atakora (Conjure Wom

Fortean Times

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On 20 July 1861, a 47-year-old London spinster received a visit from her cousins that would forever transform her life and work. Georgiana Houghton had trained as an artist but had given it up 10 years earlier when her beloved sister Zilla died in ch

Tatler Malaysia

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“Witches don’t burn, honey,” Sabrina Villard, a modern-day shaman, tells me as we’re standing in a ceremony room inside her chic apartment on Robinson Road in Hong Kong’s exclusive Mid-Levels district. “We are not going anywhere.” As a baby, Villard

Writing Magazine

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Everyone needs a little magic in our lives and that Perhaps there is someone who the character knows that applies to our writing too. We could all do with a magic potion or incantation that will encourage the words to flow and magic us all a publishi

60 Days of Prayer

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Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. PHILIPPIANS 3:13-14 (ESV) DR. NORMAN VINCENT PEALE coined the phrase “victorious forgetfulness

ARCHAEOLOGY

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Many cultures, ancient and modern, have imagined magic as a supernatural art performed by specialists who undergo mysterious training. But for the ancient Greeks, magic consisted of a number of common rituals practiced by men and women from all socia

60 Days of Prayer

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And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith. MATTHEW 13:58 (NIV) WHAT IS BLOCKING you from experiencing God’s blessings? Is it unbelief? Every person has moments of doubt when we can’t see or don’t notice the signs of His h

Futurity

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The first American Jewish literary novel—Cora Wilburn’s Cosella Wayne—is just now seeing publication. Wilburn was one of the most prolific American Jewish writers of the 19th century. She wrote poetry, essays, and fiction that grappled with assimilat

Tatler Singapore

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“Witches don’t burn, honey,” Sabrina Villard, a modern-day shaman, tells me as we’re standing in a ceremony room inside her chic apartment on Robinson Road in Hong Kong’s exclusive Mid-Levels district. “We are not going anywhere.” As a baby, Villard

Global Voices

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"Looking at what we might call magic today or throughout Muslim traditions, in many cases it seems to expand the possibilities of what is thinkably 'Islamic'."

PEARL

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For your guidance! 1 What seek ye? 2 The call for the helper 3 The Antichrist 4 Morality 5 Awake! 6 Silence 7 Ascent 8 Cult 9 Rigidity 10 Childlikeness 11 Chastity 12 The first step 13 The World 14 The Star of Bethlehem 15 The conflict 16 Modern psy

Art New Zealand

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Over the years, I have found that one of the good things about looking at art, especially with reviewing exhibitions, is being forced to contend with stuff I would normally edit out of my life, not even let anywhere near me. Art encompasses many tast

Tatler Hong Kong

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“Witches don’t burn, honey,” Sabrina Villard, a modern-day shaman, tells me as we’re standing in a ceremony room inside her chic apartment on Robinson Road in Hong Kong’s exclusive Mid-Levels district. “We are not going anywhere.” As a baby, Villard