There are four types of magic within the Slayers universe: Black, White, Shamanistic, and Holy.

This was followed in 2005 with the publication of Emma Wilby's Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic, which took a somewhat different attitude to the cunning craft than Hutton and Davies, emphasising the spiritual as opposed to simply practical side to cunning folk's magic.

He is often associated with the Shamanistic in literature.

This is a ceremonial sword that is used for demon slaying and Shamanistic rituals.

Shamanistic elements of Kyrgyz folk culture remain, includind the dobulba ( a frame drum ), the asa-tayak ( a wooden device decorated with bells and other objects ) and the earlier mentioned kyl kiak.

Shamanistic elements among the Gurungs remain strong and most Gurungs often embrace Buddhist and Bön rituals in all communal activities.

These priests in the context of the Shamanistic ritual would advocate for human clients and act to restore or assure productive relations between the human community as a whole and the supernatural community, mainly through supernatural soul travel and quests.

Journal of the International Society for Shamanistic Research

Russia also has Buddhist populations, such as the nomadic Buryats and Kalmyks, and the Shamanistic peoples of Siberia and the Extreme North, as well as the Finno-Ugric peoples of the Russian North West and the Volga Region and the peoples of the Northern Caucasus, all contributing to the extreme cultural and national diversity of the country.

The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan.

Medicine bundles are usually employed as a ritual aid in Shamanistic religions.

* Shamanistic Studies and Research Centre.

The activities there-chanyang or " praise ," ansu are very similar to many Christian groups in Korea with Shamanistic and Pentecostal influences.

They typically feature heavily in Shamanistic and Eastern religions.

He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.

As Lipton puts it: `` The Eros is felt in the magic circle of marijuana with far greater force, as a unifying principle in human relationships, than at any other time except, perhaps, in the mutual metaphysical orgasms.

The magic circle is, in fact, a symbol of and preparation for the metaphysical orgasm ''.

that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.

Now the Stone Harbor bird sanctuary, 31 acres of magic attraction for exotic herons, is threatened, but the battlefront extends far beyond our state.

There is no such magic in man-made laws.

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

And where is `` home '', that magic place of the heart??

But, again, we have no real evidence on this from that quarter until the close of the ninth century A.D., when an Arabic scholar, Tabit Ibn Korra ( 836-901 ) is said to have discussed the magic square of three.

If one takes the middle number, 5, and multiplies it by 3 ( the base number of the magic square of three ), the result is 15, which is also the constant sum of all the rows, columns, and two main diagonals.

* Psyche is used for feats of willpower or magic.

However, in general, the books only feature mental battles when there is some reason for mind-to-mind contact ( for example, Trump contact ) and magic or Trump is involved in all three of the above conflicts, so it is not clear whether Zelazny intended his characters to have such a power ; the combination of Brand's " living trump " powers and his high Psyche ( as presented in the roleplaying game ) would have guaranteed him victory over Corwin.

Armida is a tale of love and duty in conflict and is saturated in magic.

Abracadabra is an incantation used as a magic word in stage magic tricks, and historically was believed to have healing powers when inscribed on an amulet.

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.

In the Nintendo / GameFreak video game franchise " Pokémon ", there are three creatures in the same evolutionary chain named Abra, Kadabra, and Alakazam ( the third of which is also an alleged magic word used by stage magicians ).

Abra Kadabra is the name of a DC Comics villain, who originally uses futuristic technology to create effects that appear magic to present-day people, and later gains actual magic powers.

In the end, the study of the sociology of religion, according to Weber, focused on one distinguishing part of the Western culture, the decline of beliefs in magic, or what he referred to as " disenchantment of the world ".

Bookish, rational, naive, and sometimes absent-minded, she is also shown being open to magic, aggressively boyish, and intensely focused.

Thereafter he focused on history, mainly on church history in the later Middle Ages, and on institutional, legal, and ecclesiastical history, as well as magic and witchcraft.

Upon his death, the Atlantis Guild leaders focused mostly on Technomantic magic, and their armies often consist of mixes between mages, troops, and magically-infused golems.

A split-off faction from Tezla's empire, the Necropolis sect focused on Necromantic magic, or magic of death.

At this point subproject 27 was merely a funding subproject which combined all previous subprojects, including those involving LSD, payment to Sandoz, magic and the art of distraction John Mulholland's manual ( subproject 15 magic support, Mulholland Supplement ) and the procurement of more LSD ( subproject 18 ) but it continues on to include almost 150 known and documented subprojects including a microwave gun and the search for alternatives to LSD which lead to the later programs like Chickwit, most of which focused on South America and mushrooms.

The Lesser Arts were seen as rudimentary talents, more focused to the very nature of magic, while the Greater Arts were seen as having greater effectiveness and practicality such as teleportation, conjuring energy from nothing, and so on ; it is later realised that this is a misconception brought about due to the fact that there are very few Lesser Path magicians on Kelewan, and those that are have little power and training, and as a result the Lesser Path has not developed to the same level as the Greater, as it has on Midkemia ( though there are few Greater Path magicians on Midkemia and it is not widely known of ).

However, in her early years, this young tomboy was often jealous of how everybody's attentions seemed focused entirely on her brother ; she thought he and Leetah could step on the stage whenever a magic user was needed, while she, Ember, had to stay back and wait till her own adulthood would have come-which wasn't to her taste.

Gameplay for mysticailty classes is focused on spellcasting and the use of magic.

* Junker: Sort of an evolved form of Mad Science and Huckster magic ( in particular, the Thaumaturgical Diffusionists, or Metal Mages, whose magic focused on item construction and more scientific theories ), Junkers construct amazing devices using scavenged parts and magic rituals.

The magazine was focused on mentalism, but also featured ground-breaking effects from other fields of magic.

The blade, like most magic in the series, is focused on need.

In addition to compiling the spellcasting " Call to Arms " character class releases, its content is focused on greatly expanding the mechanical and narrative options for magic use in a Fantasy Craft game.

Blue's magic is highly focused on confusion, such as unsummoning enemy units to remove spell-given " buffs ", or counterspelling the enemy's high-strength and normally game-winning spells such as Avatar of Might.

In 1979 Flowers founded the Rune-Gild, an initiatory order focused on " the revival of the elder Runic " tradition, advocating runic magic.

For the last decade or so, Drawmij has focused on the theories of chronomancy, magic involving the manipulation of time.