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Executing Magic in the Modern Era
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and the magic of the gallows site. The use of corpses in medicine and magic has been recorded back into antiquity. The lace…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-86643-7
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Magical revelations : a book of exceptional magic
Merbak, who in private life is perhaps better known as J. Albert Briggs, is undoubtedly the outstanding figure in Australian Magic. For more than twenty years he has been a prolific writer on magical subjects; our leading manufacturer of tricks and illusions; and a performer whose entertainments are the last word in surprise and novelty. When I read the MSS. of this volume I did not imagi…
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- 244765781
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- cdl; americana
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- srlf_ucla:LAGE-2310700
Experiencing the impossible :the science of magic
How the scientific study of magic reveals intriguing--and often unsettling--insights into the mysteries of the human mind. What do we see when we watch a magician pull a rabbit out of a hat or read a person's mind We are captivated by an illusion; we applaud the fact that we have been fooled. Why do we enjoy experiencing what seems clearly impossible, or at least beyond our powers of explanatio…
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- 9780262351515
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- 1 online resource (296 pages).
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