this was not virtue as we understand the word today, and it did not mean an abandonment of the belief in magic manipulation.

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 ).

Prospective disciples are asked after some time following the junk food / magic word preparation to revisit his website in order to test if they can feel the magic.

Performing arts include dance, music, opera, theatre, magic, Spoken word, circus arts and musical theatre.

As early as 1892, he wrote: " If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen ever have come to exist.

Xyzzy is a magic word from the Colossal Cave Adventure computer game.

In computing, the word is sometimes used as a metasyntactic variable or as a video game cheat code, the canonical " magic word ".

Xyzzy has actually been implemented as an undocumented no-op command on several operating systems ; in Data General's AOS, for example, it would typically respond " Nothing happens ", just as the game did if the magic was invoked at the wrong spot or before a player had performed the action that enabled the word.

Through late 14th century Old French magique, the word " magic " derives via Latin magicus from the Greek adjective magikos ( μαγικός ) used in reference to the " magical " arts of the Persian Magicians ( Greek: magoi, singular mágos, μάγος ), the Zoroastrian astrologer priests of the ancient Persian Empire.

The word mantrik in India literally means " magician " since the mantrik usually knows mantras, spells, and curses which can be used for or against all forms of magic.

The Arabic word translated in this passage as " magic " is sihr.

The term " magic square " is also sometimes used to refer to any of various types of word square.

) After he lays his hands on a magic apple which has the power to cure anything, even death, he sends word to the Mongol slave to poison the princess.

Laomedon had promised them the magic horses as a reward for their deeds, but when he broke his word, Heracles and his allies took vengeance by putting Troy to siege, killing Laomedon and all his sons save Podarces, who saved his own life by giving Heracles a golden veil Hesione had made ( and therefore was afterwards called Priam, from priamai ' to buy ').

What's the magic word: Learning language through routines.

The name Carmenta is derived from Latin carmen, meaning a magic spell, oracle or song, and also the root of the English word charm.

Heka (; ; also spelt Hike ) was the deification of magic in Egyptian mythology, his name being the Egyptian word for " magic ".

The Younger Futhark inscription on the stone bears a commonly seen memorial dedication, but is followed by an encoded runic sequence that has been described as " mysterious ," and " an interesting magic formula which is known from all over the ancient Norse world.

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.

Commonly known as " magic mushrooms " or "' shrooms ," they are openly available in smart shops in many parts of the world, or on the black market in those countries that have outlawed their sale.

" If I've ever had a magic moment in my life, it was popping that tape in ," said Jesperson, " I didn't even get through the first song before I thought my head was going to explode ".

" Indeed, the song " Do You Believe In Magic ," a Top Ten hit, mentioned the genre in its lyrics: " If you believe in magic, don't bother to choose / If it's jug band music or rhythm and blues / Just go and listen, it'll start with a smile / That won't wipe off your face no matter how hard you try.

Bosley Crowther for one wrote in The New York Times, " More and more, Walt Disney's craftsmen have been loading their feature films with so-called ' live action ' in place of their animated whimsies of the past, and by just those proportions has the magic of these Disney films decreased ," citing the ratio of live action to animation at two to one, concluding that is " approximately the ratio of its mediocrity to its charm.

After prayers the foetid remains of the pigs from the previous year were mixed with seeds and planted ( Scholiast on Lucian ): "" the clearest example in Greek religion of agrarian magic ," Burkert observes ( 1985 p 244 ).

It has commonly been interpreted as " the stuff of which magic is formed ," as well as the substance of which souls are made.

< http :// www. jstor. org / stable / 441074 >.</ ref > On the other hand, magic realism encompasses the terms " myth / legend ," " fantastic / supplementation ," " defamiliarization ," " mysticism / magic ," " meta-narration ," " open-ended / expansive romanticism ," and " imagination / negative capability.

" To do so ," Bowers writes, " takes the magic of recognizable material reality and places it into the little understood world of the imagination.

Gene Wolfe said, " magic realism is fantasy written by people who speak Spanish ," and Terry Pratchett said magic realism " is like a polite way of saying you write fantasy.

yet some must have survived, because the old interest in number symbolism, divination, and magic persisted on into the Han dynasty, which succeeded in reuniting China and keeping it together for a longer period ( from 202 B.C. to A.D. 220 ).

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.

Having due regard to the magic papyri, in which many of the unintelligible names of the Abrasax-stones reappear, besides directions for making and using gems with similar figures and formulas for magical purposes, it can scarcely be doubted that many of these stones are pagan amulets and instruments of magic.

They do so by means of a magic potion, brewed by their druid, which gives the recipient superhuman strength.

Herodotus ( Histories iv. 189 ) thought he had identified the source of the ægis in Libya, which was always a distant territory of ancient magic for the Greeks:

An accomplished amateur magician himself, he hosted several TV specials in the mid-1970s which featured other amateur magicians, and was a respected member of the Hollywood magic community, belonging to The Magic Castle, an exclusive club for magicians.

On his website, Brooks states that his potential followers must first prepare by combining the junk food diet with the meditative incantation of five magic " fifth-dimensional " words which appear on his website, some of which are words from Kundalini yoga.

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.

Fire is one of the five elements that appear in most Wiccan traditions influenced by the Golden Dawn system of magic, and Aleister Crowley's mysticism, which was in turn inspired by the Golden Dawn.

Wicca in particular was influenced by the Golden Dawn system of magic, and Aleister Crowley's mysticism, which was in turn inspired by the Golden Dawn.

Wicca in particular was influenced by the Golden Dawn system of magic and Aleister Crowley's mysticism, which was in turn inspired by the Golden Dawn.

Wicca in particular was influenced by the Golden Dawn system of magic, and Aleister Crowley's mysticism which was in turn inspired by the Golden Dawn.

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.

The D & D magic system, in which wizards memorize spells that are used up once cast and must be re-memorized the next day, was heavily influenced by the Dying Earth stories and novels of Jack Vance.

Monsters, spells, and magic items used in the game have been inspired by hundreds of individual works such as A. E. van Vogt's " Black Destroyer ", Coeurl ( the Displacer Beast ), Lewis Carroll's " Jabberwocky " ( vorpal sword ) and the Book of Genesis ( the clerical spell ' Blade Barrier ' was inspired by the " flaming sword which turned every way " at the gates of Eden ).

Each Discipline is given a unique set of Talents which are used to access the world's magic.

There isn't a definitive ' best DPS ' class, as damage dealt will depend on numerous factors which vary from one encounter to another ( such as the enemy's armor, its positioning, and its magic resistance ).