Magic and Superstition
- Any "lucky charm" such as:
- amulets
- charm bracelets
- touch pieces
- painted pebbles,
- Italian charm bracelet
- A spell (paranormal) or incantation
- Similar to blessing, the infusion of something with holiness, divine will, or one's hopes
- Snake charming, a performance involving the control of snakes
- Charm, a magical spell frequently found in role-playing games that allows the spellcaster to take control of another being
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Famous quotes containing the words magic and, magic and/or superstition:
“Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in a constant revelation of their wonder-working power. They both are surrounded by taboos and observances which mark off their acts from those of the profane world.”
—Bronislaw Malinowski (1884–1942)
“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion.... Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat’s meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)