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.

The Petit Albert in particular contained a wide variety of different forms of magic, for instance dealing in both simple charms for ailments along with more complex things such as the instructions for making a Hand of Glory.

Each edition contained a game board with a plastic stand, two game booklets ( one with instructions ) with material for 92 complete games ( 368 Main Game Questions and 92 " Audience Match " and " Head-to-Head Match " questions ), two magic slates and styli ( only of the Head-to-Head portion ), and play money.

The many marvels of richness and magic it contained captured the imagination of Europeans, and it was translated into numerous languages, including Hebrew.

Rules not only for character creation ( including Monster player characters ), combat and magic, but also for Knights ( tournaments, courtly love, fiefs, political influence ), a hierarchical priesthood who could perform miracles, a large section on monsters, including the Infernal Court of demons and even wargames rules for armies were contained in the rulebook.

The building contained a mix between fluctuating reality and virtual reality by a means of magic and imagination, and was in actuality just one large room.

Among these odes criticism can hardly choose ; in each of them the whole magic of poetry seems to be contained.

Most monsters are contained in " magic portals " and combat will not begin until the player character approaches the portal and releases the monsters inside.

The capsule contained all of Constantine's childhood innocence, placed there in one of his first acts of magic to rid himself of the perceived weakness.

Begun in 1991 when Copperfield purchased the Mullholland Library of Conjuring and the Allied Arts, which contained the world's largest collection of Houdini memorabilia, the museum comprises approximately 80, 000 items of magic memorabilia, including Houdini's Water Torture Cabinet and his Metamorphosis Trunk, Orson Welles ' Buzz Saw Illusion and automata created by Robert-Houdin.

That book contained only the four witches ( besides the humbug wizard ), but despite Ozma's prohibition on magic, many more magicians feature in later works.

A potion that contained ingredients used in African ritual magic was also discovered in his stomach.

Calon Arang had a book that contained magic incantations.

Elves must both speak and gesture to cast their magic, and the magic contained in songs can be triggered by anyone capable of singing it since the magic is not dependent on a wizard, thus making it possible for humans to trigger elven magic in this form.

* Pocket realities are usually presented in the Marvel Universe as either comparatively small reachable but separate " dimensions ", such as realms of magic with recurrently greatly diverging laws of physics, or as contained within / linked to outwardly small objects with tesseract qualities, that make them far larger on the inside than the outside, such as the ( from inside apparently full-sized ) universe within the Soul Gem or the Heroes Reborn sphere.

It simplified the 9 × 9 magic square puzzle so that each row, column and broken diagonals contained only the numbers 1 – 9, but did not mark the sub-squares.

And in this dimension also, the Perfect ( nasik ) magic tesseract has all possible lines summing correctly and all cubes and squares contained in it are also nasik magic.

< tt > file </ tt > is a standard Unix program for recognizing the type of data contained in a computer file using magic numbers.

The Spectre's rampage on magic users resulted in the death of the wizard Shazam, the destruction of the Rock of Eternity and the release of the forces contained within it, which included the Seven Deadly Sins and numerous other demons.

To characterize this history, Horkheimer and Adorno draw on a wide variety of material, including the philosophical anthropology contained in Marx ’ s early writings, centered on the notion of “ labor ,” Nietzsche ’ s genealogy of morals ( and the emergence of conscience through the renunciation of the will to power ), Freud ’ s account in Totem and Taboo of the emergence of civilization and law in murder of the primordial father, ethnological research on magic and ritual in primitive societies, as well myth criticism, philology and literary analysis.

In fact, Agrippa's interpretation of magic is similar to the authors Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Johann Reuchlin's synthesis of magic and religion and emphasize an exploration of nature.

Hoffman maintained ( against the " magic " of the Lutheran interpretation ) that the function of the Eucharist, like that of preaching, is nothing more than an appeal for spiritual union with Christ.

The realistic interpretation is that Hilda has maintained a girlish, erotic obsession for her " ageless prince " and has arrived to claim the " magic life " he can offer.

The word magi originally referred to Zoroastrian priests in Persia, but by the time this gospel was written it had come to mean anyone who dabbled in the occult arts such as magic, astrology, and dream interpretation.

Since the most common motifs are hunted animals, a popular interpretation has been that the carvings were made as part of " hunter's magic "-in an attempt to gain control of the animals that were hunted.