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- From: arthurc@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Arthur Chandler)
- Subject: definitions of Magic
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.212749.24851@csus.edu>
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- Organization: California State University, Sacramento
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:27:49 GMT
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- Hope that folks here can help me. I'm putting together a collection
- of definitions of magic -- not long essays, but one- or two sentence
- distillations. I'll post some of what I have here so that you/we can
- comment on them. If you have some of your own, or some you've copied
- down, I'd be obliged if you could post hem or email them to me with as
- much bibliographic info as possible (but send 'em even if you don't
- remember the source).
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- Here's one to start off:
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- MAGIC: The general term for the practice and power of wonder-working,
- as depending on the employment of supposed supernatural agencies.
- -- Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition (1910), "Magic"
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