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The Hand of Glory
This was a right hand of a murderer that was severed while the corpse was
still hanging from the gallows. It was then used as a charm or in black
magic practices after being magically perserved. It is also believed robbers
often used the hand when breaking into buildings and homes.
Preferably the hand was cut off during the eclipse of the moon. Afterwards it was
wrapped in a shroud, squeezed of blood and pickled for two weeks in an earthenware jar
with salt, long peppers and saltpeter. Then it was either dried in an oven with vervain, an
herb believed to be able to ward off demands, or laid out to dry in the sun, desirably in
the hot dog days of August.
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General information: The Laws of Magic
Posted by: Nyxks on Friday, November 12, 2004 - 02:15 PM
The Laws of Magic
The saying that magic is not what it seems may be more prevalent today
than in the past. Today when ones hears the word magic one often thinks of
the tall, slender, dark haired gentleman on stage or the television screen in
his black tuxedo who pulls the white rabbit out of his top hat, and juggles
balls and glasses or both, and saws a thinly clad, pretty girl in a box in half. Amazingly,
he always somehow puts her back together again. At best, this could be called theatrical
magic or just theatrics.
But, it certainly is not serious or real magic--the magic which has been practiced and
believed in for thousands of years. Such magic as this is based upon laws, if not fully
believed by the practitioners, at least adhered to. These laws have been recognized as the
governing structure which makes the magic at least seem to work, gaining for the
practitioners the desired results, and making people believe in it.
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General information: The Secret language of symbols
Posted by: Nyxks on Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 09:43 AM
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