We found that wherever you can use two teams on a job, five men, not four, is the magic number ''.

The word is thought to have its origin in the Aramaic language, in which ibra ( אברא ) means " I have created " and k ' dibra ( כדברא ) which means " through my speech ", providing a translation of abracadabra as " created as I say ", thus its use in magic.

Unlike earlier texts like Recipes for Fifty-Two Ailments, which was excavated in the 1970s from a tomb that had been sealed in 168 BCE, the Inner Canon rejected the influence of spirits and the use of magic.

The game favors the use of magic in combat, as spells are the only weapons that work from a distance.

The game's extensive rules – which cover diverse subjects such as social interactions, magic use, combat, and the effect of the environment on PCs – help the DM to make these decisions.

He became praetor in 25 AD, and gained the favor of Tiberius by accusing Claudia Pulchra, the second cousin of Agrippina, of adultery and the use of magic arts against the emperor, in 26 AD.

As the historian Owen Davies noted, " while the Church was ultimately successful in defeating pagan worship it never managed to demarcate clearly and maintain a line of practice between religious devotion and magic ," and the use of such books on magic continued.

The Gylfaginning tells the story of Gylfi, a king of " the land that men now call Sweden ", who after being tricked by one of the goddesses of the Æsir, wonders if all Æsir use magic and tricks for their will to be done.

The animals are accompanied by signs which suggest a possible magic use.

It has been suggested that the use of dogs for digging up mandrake is further corroboration of the association of this plant with Hecate ; indeed, since at least as early as the 1st century CE, there are a number of attestations to the apparently widespread practice of using dogs to dig up plants associated with magic.

For example, one popular Easter egg was in the Enchanter game, which involved collecting magic spells to use in accomplishing the quest.

This mid 14th century work compiled during the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty ( before 1375, when its co-editor Liu Ji died ) stated that mines were made of cast iron and were spherical in shape, filled with either ' magic gunpowder ', ' poison gunpowder ', or ' blinding and burning gunpowder ', any one of these compositions being suitable for use.

Despite Tuireann's pleas, Lugh denies them the use of one of the items they have retrieved, a magic pigskin which heals all wounds.

" A popular medieval saying was, " The better the witch ; the better the midwife "; to guard against witchcraft, the Church required midwives to be licensed by a bishop and swear an oath not to use magic when assisting women through labour.

Because Mage's themes are potentially quite complex and esoteric, and because its Sphere system rules are relatively open-ended, Mage is often daunting, particularly to novice roleplayers and those accustomed to other games whose rules govern the use of magic with greater precision but less flexibility ( e. g., games with catalogs of established " spells ").

* The 10th Kingdom miniseries requires the use of a magic mirror for the characters to change setting between modern day New York City ( the 10th Kingdom ), and the Nine Kingdoms of fairy tale, primarily the 4th Kingdom from Snow White.

He began experimenting in the 1780s with techniques used to make phantasmagorias, which is basically the use of the magic lantern to conjure up supernatural images such as the devil, phantoms, or ghosts.

All humans in the Marvel Universe have the ability to use magic, but only if properly trained.

On April 25, 2008, the Dutch government, backed by a majority of members of parliament, decided to ban cultivation and use of all magic mushrooms.

These deaths were not directly caused by the use of the drug per se, but by deadly accidents occurring while under the influence of magic mushrooms.

Works such as Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome and Salman Rushdie's Grimus and Boman Desai's The Memory of Elephants are generally classified as magic realist works but make essential use of SF tropes and techniques.

Adepts use magic internally in order to accentuate their natural physical abilities.

The first recorded use of the term was in 1499 by Johannes Trithemius in his Steganographia, a treatise on cryptography and steganography disguised as a book on magic.

The animals are accompanied by signs that suggest a possible magic use.

By knowing the coordinates of an object ( usually given in equatorial coordinates ), the telescope user can use the setting circle to align the telescope in the appropriate direction before looking through its eyepiece.

Jensen argues that in line with Robinson's original proposal, the use of the circle symbol should be limited to monocyclic 6 pi-electron systems.

The Latter-day Saint Endowment prayer circle once included use of the words " Pay Lay Ale ", which some adherents believed were Adamic words meaning " Oh God, hear the words of my mouth ".

Prior to 1989, use of a copyright notice — consisting of the copyright symbol (, the letter C inside a circle ), the abbreviation " Copr.

However, like golfers putting from the fringe, rough or fairway, most disc golfers still use a putting motion on shots that are longer than 10 meters, often called " being out of the circle " or " being outside.

In the single stranded DNA viruses-a group that includes the circoviruses, the geminiviruses, the parvoviruses and others-and also the many phages and plasmids that use the rolling circle replication ( RCR ) mechanism, the RCR endonuclease creates a nick the genome strand ( single stranded viruses ) or one of the DNA strands ( plasmids ).

Goalkeepers are permitted to play the ball outside their defensive circle ( scoring area or " D "), but may only use their field hockey-stick in this circumstance, not their kickers ; leg-guards ; gloves / hand protectors or any part of the body.

Many designs were in use that complied with the flag resolution, with stars arranged in a square, a wreath, rows, patterns, or the familiar " Betsy Ross " circle.

This dictum led to a deep study of possible compass and straightedge constructions, and three classic construction problems: how to use these tools to trisect an angle, to construct a cube twice the volume of a given cube, and to construct a square equal in area to a given circle.

Instead of being confined to a circle, javelin throwers are provided with a runway wide and at least in length, ending in a curved arc from which their throw will be measured ; athletes typically use this distance to gain momentum in a " run-up " to their throw.

The corresponding statistic including fractions of a year, the normal meaning of life expectancy, has a symbol with a small circle over the e .) In the modern era, life expectancy has increased so dramatically as to call into question the ability to use current data for very long range predictions into the future.

Martínez continued to use a curveball, a circle changeup, and an occasional slider.

Other authors use Zodiac to mean ecliptic, which first appears in a gloss of unknown author in a passage of Cleomedes where he is explaining that the Moon is in the zodiacal circle as well and periodically crosses the path of the Sun.

The Coast and Geodetic Surveys flag, authorized in 1899 and in use until 1970, was blue, with a white circle centered in it and a red triangle centered within the circle.

Participants of the outer circle can use an observation checklist or notes form to monitor the participants in the inner circle.

One method of squaring the circle, by relaxing the strict limitations on the use of straightedge and compass in ancient Greek geometric proofs, makes use of an Archimedean spiral.

In yacht racing, a round-the-world route approximating a great circle would be quite impractical, particularly in a non-stop race where use of the Panama and Suez Canals would be impossible.

That year, the current logo was implemented, consisting of the network's name in all capitals with the ' SHO ' prefix imprinted on a circle ( as with Cinemax's highlighting of ' MAX ' in their logo, the use of ' SHO ' as the logo focal point comes from the channel's former TV Guide abbreviation in the magazine's local listings era ).

The use of prose in literature also became popular with the appearance of many novels ; most famous were those from the Tự Lực Văn Đoàn literary circle.

There are obvious risks associated with an entire group of people all wielding swords, while confined within a small ritual circle space nine feet in diameter ; this safety factor, as well as ease of use, may explain why the emphasis within Wicca is more on each witch's personal athame, rather than the ritual sword.

When the circle is ritually purified after being cast, that is traditionally done with the remaining three elements -- air ( incense ), water ( salt-water ), and earth ( salt ) -- because the element of fire has already been imbued into the circle during the casting, by the use of the athame.