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Journal articles on the topic "Magical powers"

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TSUKAKOSHI, Nami. "Adults' Belief in Imaginary Characters or Magical Powers." Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association 75 (September 15, 2011): 2PM108. http://dx.doi.org/10.4992/pacjpa.75.0_2pm108.

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Ayatullah, Humaeni. "RITUAL MAGI DALAM BUDAYA MASYARAKAT MUSLIM BANTEN." IBDA` : Jurnal Kajian Islam dan Budaya 13, no. 2 (October 10, 2015): 26–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.24090/ibda.v13i2.660.

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This article discusses various magical rituals and their meaningsfor Muslim society of Banten. How the meanings and functions of rituals; what kinds of magical rituals used and practiced by Muslim society of Banten become two main focuses of this article; besides, it also tries to analyze how Muslim society of Banten understand the various magical rituals. This article is the result of a field research using ethnographical method based on anthropological perspective. To analyze the data, the researcher uses structural-functional approach. Library research, participant-observation, and depth-interview are the methods used to collectthe data. Performing various magical rituals for the practicians of magic in Banten is a very important action that must be conducted by the magicians or someone who learns magical sciences. Magical ritual becomes an important condition for the successfulness of magic. If they do not this, there is a belief that they will fail in obtaining the magical effects. Magical ritual should be also conducted in certain places and certain time withvarious magical formula and magical actions under the supervision of magicians. The use of these magical rituals becomes a portrait of the pragmatical life style of Bantenese society who still believes in magical powers.
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Moore, H. "Review: Plots and Powers: Magical Structures in Medieval Narrative." Review of English Studies 56, no. 223 (February 1, 2005): 137–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/res/hgi019.

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Hurd, Heidi M. "The Moral Magic of Consent." Legal Theory 2, no. 2 (June 1996): 121–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1352325200000434.

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We regularly wield powers that, upon close scrutiny, appear remarkably magical. By sheer exercise of will, we bring into existence things that have never existed before. With but a nod, we effect the disappearance of things that have long served as barriers to the actions of others. And, by mere resolve, we generate things that pose significant obstacles to others' exercise of liberty. What is the nature of these things that we create and destroy by our mere decision to do so? The answer: the rights and obligations of others. And by what seemingly magical means do we alter these rights and obligations? By making promises and issuing or revoking consent When we make promises, we generate obligations for ourselves, and when we give consent, we create rights for others. Since the rights and obligations that are affected by means of promising and consenting largely define the boundaries of permissible action, our exercise of these seemingly magical powers can significantly affect the lives and liberties of others.
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Rybarczyk-Dyjewska, Joanna. "Без четырех углов дом не строится — rosyjskie ludowe praktyki magiczne związane z gospodarstwem domowym." Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski 8, no. 2 (November 1, 2018): 319–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/pw.3590.

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The aim of the present work is a presentation of Russian folk magical practices connected with the running of a home. The first part of the article reflects on the significance of the home (it symbolism) in Eastern Slavonic culture as well as belief in the magical powers of the spirits protecting the homestead. The second part of the article analyses pragmatically the spells from the group домоведческие и хозяйственные заговоры [domestic and household spells]. The characterised material shows that the verbal magical interaction was based first and foremost on the use of an arousal strategy, being the categorical significance of the imperative mood.
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Diamond, Arlyn. "Plots and Powers: Magical Structures in Medieval Narrative. Anne Wilson." Speculum 78, no. 4 (October 2003): 1427–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0038713400101526.

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Kiguru, Gatitu, Phyllis W. Mwangi, Purity M. Nthiga, and Caryn Kimuyu. "Language and Witchcraft as a Trade: Insights from, Machakos County, Kenya." Revista Internacional de Organizaciones, no. 23 (September 18, 2019): 59–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.17345/rio23.59-77.

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Witchcraft is defined as the use of magical powers for healing, seeing into the future, causing harm or for religion. The belief in the powers of witchcraft is widespread in Africa. Due to these perceived magical powers people from different walks of life seek for various forms of treatments from witchdoctors. As such, witchcraft in Africa is a trade complete with a marked use of language that sustains in in modern society. This article reports on an analysis of language used by witchdoctors in Machakos County in Kenya, and respondents’ views about witchcraft. The objectives of the study were twofold. One was to identify and describe the language strategies that mark witchcraft as trade. The second objective was to explore the socio-psychological factors governing the use of the language by witchdoctors. Two witchdoctors were purposively sampled: one male and one female. The primary data were collected through recorded interviews of the witchdoctors. It was found that the witchdoctors use various language strategies to attract and retain clientele and that these strategies are a factor of the socio-psychological environment in which the witchdoctors operate. Moreover, the study established that witchdoctor still find relevance in the modern Kenyan society because of prevalent beliefs about social and medical problems. This paper thus argues that language is an important tool in the witchcraft trade that serves to purposely obscure meaning in order to shroud the trade in secrecy, enhance social exclusion and consequently sustain the belief in the magical powers of the witchdoctors.
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Suweta, I. Made. "Holy Bali scriptures in usada Bali traditional medicine." International journal of linguistics, literature and culture 7, no. 6 (October 20, 2021): 441–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.21744/ijllc.v7n6.1948.

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Based on the study in this paper, several things were found as the results of the study as follows. The forms of Balinese script used by shamans in traditional Balinese medicine include scripts that are classified as: wijaksara script, modre script, and wresastra/swalalita script with various script equipment as attributes. The functions of Balinese script which are classified as sacred scripts used in traditional Balinese medicine are: as a symbol of God in its various manifestations, as a symbol of the universe, and as a symbol of the human body. The meaning of the Balinese script used in traditional Balinese medicine is: praying to God in various holy powers of God, asking for life energy so that the person being treated can be healthy as before, can absorb magical religious energy so that the medicinal infrastructure used to treat the sick has power religious magical efficacious to treat.
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Audissino, Emilio. "Bicycles, Airplanes and Peter Pans: Flying Scenes in Steven Spielberg's Films." CINEJ Cinema Journal 3, no. 2 (October 13, 2014): 103–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/cinej.2014.111.

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In Steven Spielberg's cinema the flight is a recurring theme. Flying scenes can be sorted into two classes: those involving a realistic flight – by aircraft – and those involving a magical flight – by supernatural powers. The realistic flight is influenced by the war stories of Spielberg's father – a radio man in U.S. Air-force during WWII – and it is featured in such films as Empire of the Sun (1987), Always (1989), and 1941 (1979). The magical flight is influenced by James M. Barries' character Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy, 1911), which is quoted directly in E.T. the Extraterrestrial (1982) and, above all, in Hook (1991), which is a sequel to Barrie's story. These two types of flying scenes are analysed as to their meanings, compared to the models that influenced them, and surveyed as to their evolution across Spielberg's films. A central case study is the episode The Mission from Amazing Stories (1985), in which the realistic and the magical flights overlap.
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Fonseca, Rui Carlos. "The ring, the gown, and the apple: the role of magical objects in the Byzantine vernacular romance Kallimachos and Chrysorroi." Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 44, no. 2 (October 2020): 244–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/byz.2020.4.

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Magical objects play an important role in the fourteenth-century Byzantine vernacular romance Kallimachos and Chrysorroi, not due to their supernatural powers, but rather in order to make the chivalric status of the romance hero stand out, inasmuch as he does not resort to any of them to achieve his goals.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Magical powers"

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Koenig, Madison. "Mythical Places, Magical Communities: The Transformative Powers of Collective Storytelling in Toni Morrison's Paradise and Karen Russell's Swamplandia!" Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1429892496.

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McGill, Anna. "Magic and Femininity as Power in Medieval Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/293.

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It is undeniable that literature reflects much about the society that produces it. The give-and-take relationship between a society and its literature is especially interesting when medieval texts are considered. Because most medieval plots and characters are variants of existing stories, the ways that the portrayals change has the potential to reveal much about the differences between medieval societies separated by distance and time. Changes to the treatment of these recurring characters and their stories can reveal how the attitudes of medieval society changed over time. Perceptions of magic and attitudes toward its female practitioners, both real and fictional, changed drastically throughout the Middle Ages among clergy members and the ruling class. Historically, as attitudes toward women became more negative, they were increasingly prohibited from receiving a formal education and from gaining or maintaining positions traditionally associated with feminine magical power, such as healer, midwife, or wise woman. As the power of the Church grew and attitudes changed throughout the Middle Ages, women’s power in almost all areas of life experienced a proportional decrease. Using a combination of historical and literary sources, this paper will explore whether this decrease in power is evident in literary portrayals of magical female characters in medieval literature. Specifically, it will examine the agency and potency, or the intrinsic motivation and effectiveness within the story, respectively, of female characters within medieval narratives, comparing the characters to their earlier iterations. This research will offer a unique perspective on the roles of magical women in medieval literature.
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Osbourne, Gavin. "Mosaics of power : superstition, magic and Christian power in early Byzantine floor mosaics." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/54017/.

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This thesis argues that some Early Byzantine floor mosaics had, in addition to a practical and decorative role, a supernatural function. By this I mean the images and words depicted within the mosaic were perceived as devices to attract powers from a supernatural dimension, for the benefit of those that walked over the mosaic or the building that housed it. The thesis is ultimately a discussion of the Byzantines' beliefs in the power of art and text, and how they were believed to intervene and affect everyday life. My examination is carried out with a focus on the floor mosaics produced between the fourth and seventh centuries in the Byzantine Empire. Using an iconographic methodological approach, the thesis explores how certain images and words incorporated within mosaic designs can be seen in supernatural terms. To do so, comparable material objects with clearer supernatural functions will be examined. Primary sources that indicate how certain motifs were perceived to bring about powers will also be analysed. In this thesis, I analyse the different kinds of devices that were depicted to attract supernatural powers and explore why those devices were believed to have the ability to generate powers. The thesis illustrates how power could be seen as being rooted in Christianity, magic or more unclear sources. Expanding on this discussion, I explore how a single mosaic could incorporate elements from several sources, dispelling scholarship that portrays the Early Byzantine period as predominately influenced by Christianity. The other key function of the thesis is to emphasise the fact that mosaics can be considered in terms of the conscious design process of their construction, placing them within the same category as gemstones and icons in terms of purposeful objects.
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Wells, Kimberly Ann. "Screaming, flying, and laughing: magical feminism's witches in contemporary film, television, and novels." Texas A&M University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/6007.

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This project argues that there is a previously unnamed canon of literature called Magical Feminism which exists across many current popular (even lowbrow) genres such as science-fiction, fantasy, so-called realistic literature, and contemporary television and film. I define Magical Feminism as a genre quite similar to Magical Realism, but assert that its main political thrust is to model a feminist agency for its readers. To define this genre, I closely-read the image of the female magic user as one of the most important Magical Feminist metaphors. I argue that the female magic user–commonly called the witch, but also labeled priestess, mistress, shaman, mambo, healer, midwife– is a metaphor for female unruliness and disruption to patriarchy and as such, is usually portrayed as evil and deserving of punishment. I assert that many (although not all) of the popular texts this genre includes are overlooked or ignored by the academy, and thus, that an important focus for contemporary feminism is missed. When the texts are noticed by parts of the academy, they are mostly considered popular culture novelty acts, not serious political genres. As part of my argument, I analyze third wave feminism’s attempt to reconcile traits previously considered less than feminist, such as the domestic. I also deconstruct the popular media’s negative portrayal of contemporary feminism and the resulting reluctance for many young women to identify themselves as feminist. I also argue that this reluctance goes hand in hand with a growing attempt to seek new models for empowering female epistemologies. My assertion is that these texts are the classrooms where many readers learn their feminism. Finally, I list a short bibliography as a way of defining canon of texts that should be considered Magical Feminist.
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Guo, Shuqing. "Magic, Power, and Knowledge: Technological Reproducibility in Chinese and American Animations." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1300720577.

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Lewis, Abby N. "How Disassociating the Past Reassociates the Present: Distilling the Magic out of Magic Realism in Susan Power’s The Grass Dancer." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/421.

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American Indian author Susan Power’s novel The Grass Dancer is often categorized as magical realism, yet Power has stated the novel is a representation of her reality and that it is not a magical realist text. The term magical realism was first applied to the work of Latin American authors such as Gabriel García Márquez whose writing depicts magical events in a matter-of-fact narrative tone. It has since expanded to include other cultures. The question is whether it is a term that can readily be applied to the literary work of all cultures. The closest Wendy B. Faris, one of the most prominent experts on magical realism, comes to discussing the term in relation to the work of American Indian authors is by simply acknowledging Ojibwe writer Louise Erdrich’s label as a magical realist author. In order to aid Power in her rejection of the association, I delve into both her Dakota heritage and her life through the lens of biographical criticism in order to obtain a working image of her reality. By locating and examining the seeds of truth in her fiction, I explain the magical qualities of her novel in a rational and logical manner.
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Tal, Guy. "Witches on top : magic, power, and imagination in the art of early modern Italy /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3230548.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of the History of Art, 2006.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Dec. 4, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: A, page: 2790. Adviser: Bruce Cole.
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King, Ian James. "Combined use of powder diffraction and magic-angle spinning NMR to structural chemistry." Thesis, Durham University, 2003. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4063/.

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A range of 1D and 2D MAS NMR experiments have been carried out in conjunction with X-ray diffraction experiments on a number of materials from the AM(_2)O(_7) family, which exhibit the unusual phenomenon of negative thermal expansion. It has been shown that ZrP(_2)O(_7) and HfP(_2)O(_7) exist with space group Pbca rather than Pa3 as proposed in the literature, and a full structure solution has been possible for ZrP(_2)O(_7) from a combination of NMR and X-ray and neutron powder diffraction. 2D MAS NMR has been used to differentiate at least 108 unique phosphorus sites within the asymmetric unit of SnP(_2)O(_7), supporting a recent powder diffraction study presented in the literature. PbP(_2)O(_7) has been shown, by NMR, to exist as an incommensurate phase at room temperature. ZrW(_2)O(_8), a material which also shows negative thermal expansion, has been studied here primarily with variable-temperature (^17)O MAS NMR. The results presented shed important new light on oxygen migration processes occurring at the a I β-phase transition of this material. A full structure solution is presented for 2-[4-(2-hydroxy-ethylamino)-6-phenylamino-[1,3,5]triazin-2-ylamino]-ethanol from powder X-ray data, an organic material investigated as part of a study of ink-jet-dyes.
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Tsoumpra, Natalia. "Comic leadership and power dynamics in Aristophanes." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1b3d4779-609e-4638-81f2-2e7f0d410477.

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This thesis investigates the concept of leadership in four comedies of Aristophanes. In the first chapter (Lysistrata) I focus on the relationship of the female leadership with religious rituals and medical pathology, and I show that the power of women lies in their important biological role and their ability to conceive and (re)produce life in the context of marriage. In chapter two (Knights) I examine the operation of leadership through the alimentary and sacrificial codes of the play. I argue that the Sausage-seller gradually manifests himself as the sacrificial cook Agorakritos who sacrifices Demos. In this way he puts an end to the politics of savage, raw consumption as they were employed by Paphlagon (and, occasionally, by Demos himself), and saves the day by inaugurating a new era of political practice. In chapter three (Birds) I focus on the political competition between the former leader of the Birds, Tereus, and the newcomer Peisetairos. I argue that Peisetairos captivates his audience through the abuse of rhetoric and sophistry, and gradually adopts more brutal ways, by perverting the ritual of hospitality, committing cannibalism, and becoming sexually aggressive. In this respect, Peisetairos is assimilated to the tragic Tereus of the Sophoclean tragedy, but finally emerges as a more successful version of both the comic and the tragic Tereus. In the fourth and last chapter (Ecclesiazusae) I discuss the women’s disruption and overturn of the normal social order by focusing on the practice of cross-dressing and on love-magic rituals: the exchange of costume between the two sexes, as well as the control of magic practices by the women over men, empower women and, by contrast, disempower and ridicule men, who are finally reduced to a state of impotence, infertility and almost death.
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Morris, David Roger Neacalbann Mcintyre. "Driekopseiland and the 'rain's magic power': history and landscape in a new interpretation of a Northern Cape rock engraving." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/1597.

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The rock engraving site of Driekopseiland, west of Kimberley in the Northern Cape is distinctively situated on glaciated basement rock in the bed of the Riet River, and has a wealth of over 3500 engravings, preponderantly geometric images. Most other sites in the region have greater proportions of, or are dominated by, animal imagery. In early interpretations, it was often considered that ethnicity was the principal factor in this variabilty. From the 1960s the focus shifted more to establishing a quantative definition of the site, and an emperical understanding of it within the emerging cultural and environmental history of the region.
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Books on the topic "Magical powers"

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Plots and powers: Magical structures in medieval narrative. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.

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ill, Whitney Rebecca, ed. Emir's education in the proper use of magical powers. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Pub. Co., 2000.

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Animal-speak: The spiritual & magical powers of creatures great & small. St. Paul, Minn., U.S.A: Llewellyn Publications, 1993.

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Seddon, Quentin. A brief history of thyme: From magical powers to the elixir ofyouth. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1994.

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A lapidary of sacred stones: Their magical and medicinal powers based on the earliest sources. Rochester, Vt: Inner Traditions, 2012.

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Banks, Barbara Chapman. The magical powers of the horse as revealed in the archeological explorations of early China. Chicago, Ill: Microfilmed by Univeersity of Chicago Joseph Regenstein Library Department of Photoduplication, 1989.

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Dzakpasu, Conor Caesar Kofi. The Dagbo war of Dzodze, 1926: A case of the use of individual magical powers versus collective traditional re-action. Kumasi: Dela Publication and Design Services, 1991.

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Cunningham, Scott. Magical aromatherapy: The power of scent. St. Paul, Minn: Llewellyn Publications, 1989.

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Michael, Howard. Understanding runes: Their origins and magical power. Wellingborough: Aquarian, 1990.

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Abby Carnelia's one and only magical power. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2010.

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Book chapters on the topic "Magical powers"

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Kalmpourtzis, George. "The Magical Powers of the Game Designer." In Educational Game Design Fundamentals, 43–78. Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2018.: A K Peters/CRC Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315208794-2.

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Davies, Owen, and Ceri Houlbrook. "Seeking Protection: Objects of Power." In Building Magic, 95–119. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76765-5_6.

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Couldry, Nick. "Global magics, local discretion." In Media, Voice, Space and Power, 24–32. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020.: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429060090-2.

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Walker, Steve. "Ordinary Everyday Magic." In The Power of Tolkien's Prose, 7–40. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230101661_2.

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"Magical Powers." In Comic Shop, 3–12. Ohio University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv224tzmx.4.

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"Magical Powers of Blood." In Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions, 1202. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8265-8_100627.

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"From supernatural powers to exciting football games: magic/magical." In Variation and change in the lexicon, 229–58. Brill | Rodopi, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401204644_011.

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Edmonds III, Radcliffe G. "Curses for All Occasions: Malefic and Binding Magic." In Drawing Down the Moon, 53–90. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691156934.003.0003.

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This chapter examines the place of curse tablets within the ancient Greco-Roman world. The curse tablet, the thin sheet of metal (lamella) with mysterious writings on it, appears as part of the standard equipment of the malevolent magician. One of the first types of magical evidence to be systematically collected and cataloged, the curse tablets have been the object of scholarly study for over a hundred years, and a number of recent studies have analyzed particular features of the curse tablet, elucidating the rules of the genre and illuminating the characteristic poetics of the magical curse. Indeed, more than 1,700 curse tablets from the ancient Greco-Roman world have been published, and many more remain unpublished, awaiting the analysis of scholars. These tablets of metal inscribed with malevolent wishes present a good body of evidence for scholars of ancient magic, since most of these curses seem to fall within everyone's intuitive definition of magic. They clearly intend harm to the target, they are mostly made and deposited in secret, and they use strange words to compel suprahuman powers to take concrete action against another for the personal benefit of the curser.
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Aliverti, Ana. "The Magic of Immigration Enforcement: Discretion, Order and Policing." In Policing the Borders Within, 73–101. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198868828.003.0004.

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This chapter examines the peculiar nature of immigration decision-making. Removal and deportation are state coercive acts that require the acquiescence of another sovereign state and often involve complex bilateral negotiations by parties in asymmetrical relations of power. As such they are truly international acts that demand careful coordination and interdependence between various actors and institutions. They place immigration officers at the receiving end of a long chain that connects various institutional actors across public and private domains spanning the local, the national, and the global. The peculiarity of immigration enforcement relates to the framework in which officers exercise discretion: a framework structured around a combination of variables over which they have little or no control, a game of chance or a lottery. Officers figuratively gesture at the magical powers of immigration enforcement to solve policing problems. The notion of magic attests to the attractions of immigration powers for everyday policing, as well as the random, capricious, informal, and arbitrary ways in which state power operates. The fragile, ever-changing grounds on which immigration staff make decisions reflects the challenges of state power to spatialize its authority in a transnational world order. By examining the imbrications of state power and magic, this chapter argues that immigration enforcement casts doubt on the presumed rationality of state bureaucracy and authority, exposing its arbitrariness as well as its limits.
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Ross, Alf. "[320]Some Features of the History of Natural Law." In On Law and Justice, 304–34. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198716105.003.0010.

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This chapter considers some features of the historical evolution of natural law in order to promote understanding of what actually characterizes natural law thinking as it is known today. It traces the history of natural law back to around 700 BC to demonstrate how natural law theory has essentially remained the same. Its characteristic features are certain modes of thought and expression which in all its phases—magical, religious, and philosophico-metaphysical—are radically different from scientific ones. There is an unbroken line from the magical-animistic belief of primitive man, over dogmatic theology to the great philosophico-metaphysical systems. The principal idea behind all manifestations of this line of thought is a fear of existence and its powers, and the impulse to seek refuge and safety in something absolute.
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Conference papers on the topic "Magical powers"

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Wijana, I. Dewa Putu. "Metaphors of Turtle Dove Physical Characteristics in a Javanese Community: A Preliminary Study." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2020.2-1.

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The Turtle dove (Javanese: perkutut) is one of most popular pets of the Javanese people. Here, they aim to have high quality turtle doves, either in the way that it chirps or in the luck that it may bring. The selection process is quite complex and extensive, one method of which is to carefully observe the physical characteristics of the bird. Accordingly, the community of turtle dove fans and experts has become enriched with a variety of turtle dove registers (words, phrases, idioms, etc.), many of which are metaphorical. This paper intends to study the metaphorical expressions used by the Javanese to compare the body characteristics of turtle doves with various natural and mythical realities surrounding the doves. The study will focus on how Javanese people associate the shapes of turtle dove body parts (the target domain) and natural objects used as a comparison (the source domain) for yielding metaphorical names of the turtle dove, either for obtaining a high quality sound or magical powers that the animal can bring to its owner.
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Fayyazi, Arash, Amirhossein Esmaili, and Massoud Pedram. "HIPE-MAGIC." In ISLPED '20: ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3370748.3406557.

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Beeri, C., and R. Ramakrishnan. "On the power of magic." In the sixth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/28659.28689.

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Woods, Andrew J., and Lars D. Ludeking. "MAGIC3D electromagnetic FDTD-PIC code dense plasma model benchmark." In 2009 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference (PPC). IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ppc.2009.5386334.

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Kruszewski, Paul, and Thomas Jan Mahamad. "The AI powered magic mirror." In SIGGRAPH '18: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3226552.3226569.

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Kemp, Emory L. "Hydraulic Cement: The Magic Powder." In Fourth National Congress on Civil Engineering History and Heritage. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/40654(2003)10.

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Woods, Andrew J., and Lars D. Ludeking. "MAGIC3D FDTD EM-PIC code cut cell slow wave serpentine calculation." In 2015 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference (PPC). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ppc.2015.7296974.

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Woods, Andrew J., and Lars D. Ludeking. "MAGIC implicit particle pusher description and validation." In 2011 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference (PPC). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ppc.2011.6191530.

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Woods, Andrew J., Lars D. Ludeking, Lester W. Cavey, and David L. Rhoades. "MAGIC Build 3D graphical input builder." In 2013 IEEE Pulsed Power and Plasma Science Conference (PPPS 2013). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ppc.2013.6627603.

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Narodytska, Nina. "Formal Analysis of Deep Binarized Neural Networks." In Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-18}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/811.

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Understanding properties of deep neural networks is an important challenge in deep learning. Deep learning networks are among the most successful artificial intelligence technologies that is making impact in a variety of practical applications. However, many concerns were raised about `magical' power of these networks. It is disturbing that we are really lacking of understanding of the decision making process behind this technology. Therefore, a natural question is whether we can trust decisions that neural networks make. One way to address this issue is to define properties that we want a neural network to satisfy. Verifying whether a neural network fulfills these properties sheds light on the properties of the function that it represents. In this work, we take the verification approach. Our goal is to design a framework for analysis of properties of neural networks. We start by defining a set of interesting properties to analyze. Then we focus on Binarized Neural Networks that can be represented and analyzed using well-developed means of Boolean Satisfiability and Integer Linear Programming. One of our main results is an exact representation of a binarized neural network as a Boolean formula. We also discuss how we can take advantage of the structure of neural networks in the search procedure.
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Reports on the topic "Magical powers"

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Coplen, Bruce, and Richard Worl. Pulsed Power Simulation Problems in Magic. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, April 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada191110.

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Molloy Murphy, Angela. Animal Magic, Secret Spells, and Green Power: More-Than-Human Assemblages of Children's Storytelling. Portland State University Library, June 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.7318.

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