Stories
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A medieval guide to practical magic
With few sources of effective help available when treating an injured patient, the medieval physician could instead stage a healing ceremony using a practical how-to guide he carried with him.
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The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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Sun salutations and yoga synthesis in India
Surya namaskars, or sun salutations, have a long history in South Asia, but their place at the heart of modern yoga is more recent.
Catalogue
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Incantations médico-magiques en Savoie / A. van Gennep.
Gennep, Arnold van, 1873-1957.Date: 1928- Books
Šà.zi.ga, ancient Mesopotamian potency incantations / by Robert D. Biggs.
Biggs, Robert D.Date: 1967- Books
Deliver me from evil : Mesopotamian incantations, 2500-1500 BC / Graham Cunningham.
Cunningham, Graham.Date: 1997- Books
Amulets and magic bowls : Aramaic incantations of late antiquity / by Joseph Naveh, Shaul Shaked.
Naveh, Joseph.Date: [1985], ©1985- Books
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A treatise of magic incantations / translated from the Latin of Christianus Pazig (circa 1700) ; edited by Edmund Goldsmid.
Pazig, Christianus.Date: 1886