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.

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.

" With that said, in practice, magical weapons are usually specific, consecrated items used within ceremonial magic.

A magical organization is an organization created for the practice of magic or to further the knowledge of magic among its members.

The belief in magic and the practice of magical rituals are followed by a " significant number " of contemporary Pagans.

Although apart from the practice of magic, this was not a revival of pagan cultic practice, the Renaissance was a " rebirth " of the philosophy of pagan antiquity especially Platonism ( or Neo-Platonism, Plotinism ), but also Epicureanism, re-introduced by Baroque philosopher Pierre Gassendi, described as a " new paganism " in the history of philosophy.

The Wiccan religion revolves around the veneration of a Horned God and a Goddess, elements of a variety of ancient mythologies, a belief in and practice of magic and sometimes the belief in reincarnation and karma.

But on the death of John he was away in Egypt for the practice of magic, and one Dositheus, by spreading a false report of Simon's death, succeeded in installing himself as head of the sect.

In practice, magic bears a strong resemblance to religion.

The distinction Mauss draws between religion and magic is both of sentiment and practice.

In ancient Greece magic was involved in practice of religion, medicine, and divination.

The practice of magic was banned in the Roman world, and the Codex Theodosianus states: If any wizard therefore or person imbued with magical contamination who is called by custom of the people a magician ... should be apprehended in my retinue, or in that of the Caesar, he shall not escape punishment and torture by the protection of his rank.

The various branches of Neopaganism and other Earth religions that have emerged since Gardner's publication tend to follow a pattern in combining the practice of magic and religion, although this combination is not exclusive to them.

Some people in the West believe in or practice various forms of magic.

The distinction became particularly pointed and controversial during the Early Modern witch-hunts, with some authors such as Johannes Hartlieb denouncing all magical practice as blasphemous, while others portrayed natural magic as not sinful.

It was on his orders that Priscillian and 6 companions became the first people in the history of Christianity to be executed for heresy, in this case of Priscillianism, by other Christians ( though the civil charges were for the practice of magic ), and their property was confiscated.

The party returns to the Emerald City, where the Wizard of Oz ( one of the few allowed to lawfully practice magic in Oz ) restores Unc Nunkie and Dr. Pipt's wife.

In the African American community, where many people practice a form of folk magic called hoodoo or rootworking, a fortune telling session or " reading " for a client may be followed by practical guidance in spell-casting and Christian prayer, through a process called " magical coaching ".

The practice became known explicitly as demonic magic and was condemned by the Catholic Church.

Through analogy and through the belief that one can control or aid the powers of nature by the practice of magic, particularly sympathetic magic, sexuality might characterize part of the cult of the Baʿals and ʿAshtarts.

This practice also differs between cultures ; see T-V distinction.

A service mark differs from a trademark in that the mark is used on the advertising of the service rather than on the packaging or delivery of the service, since there is generally no " package " to place the mark on, which is the practice for trademarks.

Whereas the sociology of religion broadly differs from theology in assuming indifference to the supernatural, theorists tend to acknowledge socio-cultural reification of religious practice.

This practice differs from what is standard for any given language, and it reaches its extremity concerning transliterations from other languages.

While the two fields are closely related, ' urban design ' differs from ' urban planning ' in its focus on the proactive design of urban areas, whereas the latter tends, in practice, to focus on the management of private development through established regulatory planning methods and programs, and other statutory development controls.

The album sequence differs from the film sequence, a standard practice with vinyl LPs, often for aesthetic reasons.

Technically, Degas differs from the Impressionists in that he " never adopted the Impressionist color fleck ", and he continually belittled their practice of painting en plein air.

This, of course, differs from the practice of leaders of some Arab resistance movements, who urge their followers to boycott the West while savouring the Western lifestyle, products, and technology.

This practice differs from that of many other nations.

The practice of Kaharingan differs from group to group, but shamans, specialists in ecstatic flight to other spheres, are central to Dayak religion, and serve to bring together the various realms of Heaven ( Upper-world ) and earth, and even Under-world, for example healing the sick by retrieving their souls which are journeying on their way to the Upper-world land of the dead, accompanying and protecting the soul of a dead person on the way to their proper place in the Upper-world, presiding over annual renewal and agricultural regeneration festivals, etc.

The Japanese nengō system differs from Chinese practice, in that in the Chinese system the era name was not updated until the year following the emperor's death.

In smaller offices, estate clerks are kept separate since their work differs significantly from other practice areas ; in larger firms, clerks are separated into divisions by specialization.

In general practice, after one confesses to one's spiritual guide, the parish priest ( who may or may not have heard the confession ) covers the head of the person with his Epitrachelion ( Stole ) and reads the Prayer of Absolution, asking God to forgive the transgression of the individual ( the specific prayer differs between Greek and Slavic use ).

He accordingly composed a series of glosses setting out all respects in which Ashkenazi practice differs, and the composite work is today accepted as the leading work on Ashkenazi halachah.

Afghanistan seems to simultaneously practice both dowry and bride price, although the practice differs between different tribal and ethnic groups.

Canadian whiskey regulations do not specify any distillation limit, although in practice this differs little from the Scottish and Irish limit of 94. 8 %, because the purity of neutral grain spirit has a practical limit of approximately that value ( because a mixture of ethanol and water becomes an azeotrope at 95. 6 % ABV ).

It differs from the ELCA in that the LCMS prefers a more direct application of biblical teaching to modern times, does not practice the ordination of women, and does not practice open communion.

The order of cup and bread differs both from present-day Christian practice and from that in the New Testament accounts of the Last Supper, of which, again unlike almost all present-day Eucharistic celebrations, the Didache makes no mention.

This differs from the practice thus far by which the review process undertaken by the Court on national legislation was done by judicial review subsequent to the passage of legislation.

The usage in the two ancient English universities of Oxford, Cambridge and in some Scottish universities, particularly the ancient universities differs slightly from that in other UK universities – the MA degree is not a substantive qualification, but reflects the ancient practice of these universities of raising BAs to MAs ( and thus full membership of the University ) a few years after graduating ( see Master of Arts ( Oxbridge and Dublin )).

', Wynn cites consensus that practice in the EU differs from that in the US.

Language teaching practice often assumes that most of the difficulties that learners face in the study of English are a consequence of the degree to which their native language differs from English ( a contrastive analysis approach ).