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Author : Thomas Hauschild
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845454821
"Published in Association with the European Association of Social Anthropologists."
Author : Mary-Grace Fahrun
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781633410558
In this fascinating journey through the magical, folkloric, and healing traditions of Italy the reader learns uniquely Italian methods of magical protection and divination and spells for love, sex, control, and revenge. "Mary-Grace Fahrun's Italian Folk Magic is an intimate journey into the heart of Italian folk magical practices as they are lived every day. Having grown up in an extended Italian family in North America and Italy, the author presents us with the stories, characters, saints, charms, and prayers that form the core of folk religion, setting them in context in an authentic, down-to-earth, and humorous voice. A delight to read!"—Sabina Magliocco, Professor of Anthropology, University of British Columbia Italian Folk Magiccontains: magical and religious rituals prayers divination techniques crafting blessing rituals witchcraft The author also explores the evil eye, known as malocchio in Italian, explaining what it is, where it comes from, and, crucially, how to get rid of it. This book can help Italians regain their magical heritage, but Italian folk magic is a beautiful, powerful, and effective magical tradition that is accessible to anyone who wants to learn it.
Author : David A. Forgacs,Stephen Gundle
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253219480
From the 1930s to the 50s in Italy commercial cultural products were transformed by new reproductive technologies and ways of marketing and distribution, and the appetite for radio, films, music and magazines boomed. This book uses new evidence to explore possible continuities between the uses of mass culture before and after World War II.
Author : Guido Ruggiero
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195359442
Mining the rich Venetian archives, especially the unusually detailed records of Venice's own branch of the Roman Inquisition, Guido Ruggiero provides a strikingly new and provocative interpretation of the end of the Renaissance in Italy. In this boldly structured work, he develops five narrative accounts of individual encounters with the Inquisition that illustrate the double-edged metaphor of how passions were both bound by late Renaissance society and were seen in turn as binding people. In this way new perspectives are opened on magic, witchcraft, love, marriage, gender, and discipline at the level of the community and beyond. Witches, courtesans, prostitutes, women healers, nobles, Cardinals, and renegade priests and monks speak from these pages describing their lives, beliefs, hopes, fears, and lies. With an imaginative flair for storytelling and impeccable scholarship, Ruggiero exposes the rich complexity of the culture and poetics of the everyday at the end of the Renaissance and illuminates a previously unexplored chapter in Italian history.
Author : Roderick Cavaliero
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857722041
Before unification, Germany was a loose collection of variously sovereign principalities, nurtured on deep thought, fine music and hard rye bread. It was known across Europe for the plentiful supply of consorts to be found among its abundant royalty, but the language and culture was largely incomprehensible to those outside its lands. In the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries- between the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648 and unification under Bismarck in 1871 - Germany became the land of philosophers, poets, writers and composers. This particularly German cultural movement was able to survive the avalanche of Napoleonic conquest and exploitation and its impact was gradually felt far beyond Germany's borders. In this book, Roderick Cavaliero provides a fascinating overview of Germany's cultural zenith in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He considers the work of Germany's own artistic exports - the literature of Goethe and Grimm, the music of Wagner, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Bach and the philosophy of Schiller and Kant - as well as the impact of Germany on foreign visitors from Coleridge to Thackeray and from Byron to Disraeli. Providing a comprehensive and highly-readable account of Germany's cultural life from Frederick the Great to Bismarck, 'Genius, Power and Magic' is fascinating reading for anyone interested in European history and cultural history.
Author : Raven Grimassi
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1567182593
Italian Witchcraft (previously titled Ways of the Strega) by respected author Raven Grimassi is more than just a book about Witchcraft. It is a complete Book of Shadows. In it you will find the history of this ancient tradition, its legends and myths, as well as the rituals and rites that you can do today. You can be a Strega! The book includes a full set of rituals that you can do. You'll find rituals for all of the Italian Witchcraft holidays including Shadow Fest, Lupercus, Tana's Day and more. You'll also find rituals for the Full Moon, births, funerals. There is a practical side to this book, too. It is filled with instructions so that you can cast spells and work with the powers of incense, oils, herbs, and candles. You'll learn to work with the magick of the Moon and Stars. You'll be able to do protection rituals and learn how to cure someone who has received the "Malocchio" (Evil Eye). Many of the mysteries revealed here have never been published before. You'll learn secret gestures of power and secret symbols. And you can use them all! Also revealed are the secrets of the tools of the Italian Witch. You'll learn how to prepare the "Spirit Blade" and the ritual wand. You'll learn how to make the Spirit Bowl and use to consecrate other tools and talismans. If you're looking to discover real Witchcraft, or if you're already a Witch but are thinking about other traditions, this is the book for you.
Author : Ernesto De Martino
Publisher : Hau
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Basilicata (Italy)
ISBN : 099050509X
Though his work was little known outside Italian intellectual circles for most of the twentieth century, anthropologist and historian of religions Ernesto de Martino is now recognized as one of the most original thinkers in the field. This book is testament to de Martino's innovation and engagement with Hegelian historicism and phenomenology--a work of ethnographic theory way ahead of its time. This new translation of Sud e Magia, his 1959 study of ceremonial magic and witchcraft in southern Italy, shows how De Martino is not interested in the question of whether magic is rational or irrational but rather in why it came to be perceived as a problem of knowledge in the first place. Setting his exploration within his wider, pathbreaking theorization of ritual, as well as in the context of his politically sensitive analysis of the global south's historical encounters with Western science, he presents the development of magic and ritual in Enlightenment Naples as a paradigmatic example of the complex dynamics between dominant and subaltern cultures. Far ahead of its time, Magic is still relevant as anthropologists continue to wrestle with modernity's relationship with magical thinking.
Author : Lilian Whiting
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9791041982158
"Embark on a enchanting journey through the cultural and artistic wonders of Italy with Lilian Whiting in 'Italy the Magic Land.' This travelogue, penned in the early 20th century, is a literary exploration of Italy's timeless beauty, rich history, and the allure that has captivated travelers for centuries. Whiting's narrative takes readers through the iconic landscapes of Italy, from the romantic canals of Venice to the ancient ruins of Rome and the picturesque countryside. Through her eloquent prose, she unveils the magic woven into the very fabric of Italy – its art, architecture, and the warmth of its people. 'Italy the Magic Land' is more than a travel narrative; it's a celebration of the extraordinary and the ordinary, an invitation to savor the essence of Italy. Join Whiting on this literary expedition where each page reveals a new layer of the country's enchantment, making it an essential read for those who dream of exploring the magic that is Italy."
Author : Julius Evola,The UR Group
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-13
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781620558577
The rites, practices, and texts collected by the mysterious UR group for the use of aspiring mages. • Rare Hermetic texts published in English for the first time. • Includes instructions for developing psychic and magical powers. In 1927 Julius Evola and other leading Italian intellectuals formed the mysterious UR group. Their goal: to bring their individual egos into a state of superhuman power and awareness in which they could act "magically" on the world. Their methods: the practice of ancient Tantric and Buddhist rituals and the study of rare Hermetic texts. So successful were they that rumors spread throughout Italy of the group's power, and Mussolini himself became quite fearful of them. Now for the first time in English Introduction to Magic collects the rites, practices, and knowledge of the UR group for the use of aspiring mages. Included in Introduction to Magic are instructions for creating an etheric double, speaking words of power, using fragrances, interacting with entities, and creating a "magical chain." Among the arcane texts translated are the Tibetan teachings of the Thunderbolt Diamond Path, the Mithraic mystery cult's "Grand Papyrus of Paris," and the Greco-Egyptian magical text De Mysteriis. Anyone who has exhausted the possibilities of the mundane world and is ready to take the steps necessary to purify the soul in the light of knowledge and the fire of dedication will find a number of expert mentors here.
Author : Raven Grimassi
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide Limited
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1567182534
Discover, for the first time in one complete work, the rich legacy of magick and ritual handed down by Italian witches through the generations. Ways of the Strega reclaims the beliefs and practices of southern European Pagan spirituality. Learn the secrets of Janarra (lunar) witches, Tanarra (star) witches, and Fanarra (ley lines) witches. This book also details the how-to's of modern Strega traditions.
Author : Giovanni Tabacco
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0521336805
Author : Willem De Blécourt,Owen Davies
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0719066581
An important collection of essays that use a variety of different approaches and sources to uncover the continued relevance of witchcraft and magic in nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe.
Author : David Ruderman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814774199
This book represents a sample of the most penetrating Jewish movements.
Author : Douglas Farrer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785333309
This compelling volume explores how war magic and warrior religion unleash the power of the gods, demons, ghosts, and the dead. Documenting war magic and warrior religion as they are performed in diverse cultures and across historical time periods, this volume foregrounds embodiment, practice, and performance in anthropological approaches to magic, sorcery, shamanism, and religion. The authors go beyond what magic ‘represents’ to consider what magic does. From Chinese exorcists, Javanese spirit siblings, and black magic in Sumatra to Tamil Tiger suicide bombers, Chamorro spiritual re-enchantment, tantric Buddhist war magic, and Yanomami dark shamans, religion and magic are re-evaluated not just from the practitioner’s perspective but through the victim’s lived experience. These original investigations reveal a nuanced approach to understanding social action, innovation, and the revitalization of tradition in colonial and post-colonial societies undergoing rapid social transformation.
Author : Ivan Nossa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798699554430
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