Fictional practice : : magic, narration, and the power of imagination /

Fictional practice : : magic, narration, and the power of imagination / / edited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Dirk Johannsen.

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To what extent were practitioners of magic inspired by fictional accounts of their art? In how far did the daunting narratives surrounding legendary magicians such as Theophilus of Adana, Cyprianus of Antioch, Johann Georg Faust or Agrippa of Nettesheim rely on real-world events or practices? Fourte...

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Superior document:Aries Book Series ; 30
TeilnehmendeR:
Otto, Bernd-Christian,
Johannsen, Dirk,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Aries Book Series ; 30.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  •   Bernd-Christian Otto and Dirk Johannsen
  • 1 Magic as Pollution: Fictional Blasphemies and Ritual Realities in the Roman Period (1st cen. BCE-4th cen. C)
  •   Kyle Fraser
  • 2 The Medieval Anti-Faust: Stories, Rituals, and Self-Representations in the Flowers of Heavenly Teaching
  •   Claire Fanger
  • 3 Enchantment and Anger in Medieval Icelandic Literature and Later Folklore
  •   Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir
  • 4 Narratives of the Witch, the Magician, and the Devil in Early Modern Grimoires
  •   Owen Davies
  • 5 When Ritual Texts Become Legendary  Practice and Fiction in Nordic Folklore
  •   Ane Ohrvik
  • 6 Magic and Literary Imagination in H. P. Blavatsky's Theosophy
  •   Marco Frenschkowski
  • 7 The Emergence of Fictional Practice in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: W.B. Yeats' Talismanic Poetry
  •   Dirk Johannsen
  • 8 "My Life in a Love Cult": Tantra, Orientalism, and Sex Magic in Early Twentieth-Century Fiction
  •   Hugh B. Urban
  • 9 Drawing Down the Moon: From Classical Greece to Modern Wicca?
  •   Ethan Doyle White
  • 10 Drinking from Hecate's Fountain: Kenneth Grant's Typhonian Trilogies and the Fusion Between Literature and Practiced Magic
  •   Christian Giudice
  • 11 If One Knows Where to Look, Fiction is Magic: Reading Fictional Texts as Manuals of Magic in Post-Soviet Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus
  •   Kateryna Zorya
  • 12 "Cthulhu Gnosis" Monstrosity, Selfhood, and Secular Re-Enchantment in Lovecraftian Occultural Practice
  •   Justin Woodman
  • 13 A Magickal School in the Twenty-First Century: The Grey School of Wizardry and Its Prehistory
  •   Carole M. Cusack
  • 14 Fictional Practice from Antiquity to Today
  •   Bernd-Christian Otto
  • Index.

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