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Magic soil that can self-expand and continually grow. Used to fight against the waters of the Great Flood. Xirdalium The Chase of the Golden Meteor: Element which is, in the French first edition of the novel, ~100,000 times more radioactive than radium. [93] In the English first edition this is reduced to 100 times. [94]
Lavarand, also known as the Wall of Entropy, is a hardware random number generator designed by Silicon Graphics that worked by taking pictures of the patterns made by the floating material in lava lamps, extracting random data from the pictures, and using the result to seed a pseudorandom number generator.
Fern flower, a magic flower that blooms on the eve of the Summer solstice. It will bring fortune to the person who finds it. (Baltic and Slavic mythology) Hungry grass (also Féar Gortach), a patch of cursed grass which causes perpetual and insatiable hunger. (Irish mythology) Moly, a magical herb Hermes gave to Odysseus to protect him from Circe's
A magical diagram, composed of two circles, a pentagram, and three heptagons, and is labeled with the name of God and his angels. Squared circle: Alchemy: A symbol of the Philosopher's stone. Depicted on the left image is Michael Maier's Emblem XXI from Atalanta Fugiens. Sriramachakra: Tamil mysticism: A mystic diagram used for astrology. Sri ...
According to Pottermore, the Quill of Acceptance is a magical object which detects the birth of a child with magical capabilities. It is located in Hogwarts School, where it records the children's names in a large book. Professor McGonagall consults the book and sends out the subsequent Hogwarts acceptance letters by owl once the child turns ...
A magic circle is a circle of space marked out by practitioners of some branches of ritual magic, which they generally believe will contain energy and form a sacred space, or will provide them a form of magical protection, or both. It may be marked physically, drawn in a material like salt, flour, or chalk, or merely visualised.
Dark magic is a type of magic that harnesses energies from the Dark Dimension, practiced by Agatha Harkness, Morgan la Fey, Nico Minoru, Kaecilius and his Zealots, and the Ancient One. In the case of Nico and Kaecilius's group, the usage of this form of magic without protection is corrosive with the latter forming a direct link to Dormammu.
Simple random techniques are classified by modality of association (Verbal, Visual, Audial, Kinesthetic). Multi-modal techniques combine different random elements from multiple domains. [2] A 'random article' link is an example of this kind of technique implemented by MediaWiki software. Stumbleupon is such a tool.