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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.
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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 practice, magic differs from religion in desired outcome.
In ancient Greece magic was involved in practice of religion, medicine, and divination.
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.
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The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.
The best reason that can be advanced for the state adopting the practice was the advent of expanded highway construction during the 1920s and '30s.
To determine the practice and attitude of municipal governments concerning tangible movable property, a questionnaire was sent to all local government assessors or boards of assessors in Rhode Island.
In one debate he supported the freedom of judgment as opposed to dogma, in another he held that the practice of science was in fact an act of religious worship.
With a few important and a few more unimportant exceptions, no expression can be deemed le mot juste for its context, because each was very probably the only expression that long-established practice and ease of rapid recitation would allow.
When cattle became more valuable, ranch owners frowned upon this practice and it was discontinued, at least when the boss was 'round.
From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century it was a popular practice to flood the piazza in the summer, and the aristocrats would then ride around the inundated square in their carriages.
Huff, who received a salary of $109 a week from the loan association from October of 1955 until September of this year, said that his private practice was not lucrative.
He was perhaps a trifle tipsy, having been long at sea where drinking is not permitted, and consequently out of practice ; ;
This distant territory was a Democratic stronghold, and acceptance of the post would have effectively ended his legal and political career in Illinois, so he declined and resumed his law practice.
This placement is consistent with the modern practice of ordering the elements by proton number, Z, but this number was not known or suspected at the time.
In practice, power was more and more concentrated in the hands of the President who, supported by an ever increasing staff, largely controlled parliament, government, and the judiciary.
Since the minting of coins was a prerogative accorded in Islamic practice only to a sovereign, it can be considered that Osmanli became independent of the Mongol Khans.
The author's name " indicates the status of the discourse within a society and culture ", and at one time was used as an anchor for interpreting a text, a practice which Barthes would argue is not a particularly relevant or valid endeavor.
In Canada this practice occurred during the 1890s, but was not commonplace until the 1920s.
ASL grammar was obscured for much of its history by the practice of glossing it rather than transcribing it ( see Writing systems below ), a practice which conveyed little of its grammar apart from word order.
The practice of reading to oneself without vocalizing the text was less common in antiquity than it has since become.
It was also clear NASA would soon outgrow its practice of controlling missions from its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch facilities in Florida, so a new Mission Control Center would be included in the MSC.
Her practice of accompanying Germanicus on campaigns was considered inappropriate, and her tendency to take command in these situations was viewed with suspicion as subversively masculine.
At this festival a couch was set up, on which the panoply of the hero was placed, a practice which recalls the Roman Lectisternium.
His earliest years were passed in the monastery of Siresa, learning to read and write and to practice the military arts until the tuition of Lope Garcés the Pilgrim, who was repaid for his services by his former charge with the county of Pedrola when Alfonso came to the throne.
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