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  2. Apotropaic magic - Wikipedia

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    Items and symbols such as crosses, crucifixes, silver bullets, wild roses and garlic were believed to ward off or destroy vampires. Peisistratus hung the figure of a kind of grasshopper before the Acropolis of Athens as apotropaic magic. [10] In Roman art, envy was thought to bring bad luck to the person envied.

  3. Magic Item Compendium - Wikipedia

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    The Magic Item Compendium was written by Andy Collins with Eytan Bernstein, Frank Brunner, Owen K.C. Stephens, and John Snead, and was released March 2007.Cover art was by Francis Tsai, with interior art by Steven Belledin, Ed Cox, Carl Critchlow, Eric Deschamps, Steve Ellis, Wayne England, Matt Faulkner, Emily Fiegenschuh, Randy Gallegos, David Griffith, Brian Hagan, Ralph Horsley, Heather ...

  4. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    The suit gave him protection from attacks, let him lift great weights, and allowed him to fly and project solar energy blasts. The current Hawkman and Hawkgirl continue to wear Nth metal. Much later in the DC timeline, members of the Legion of Super Heroes wear "flight rings" made of an alloy of Nth metal called valorium.

  5. Runic magic - Wikipedia

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    biargrunar "birth-runes" (stanza 8, a spell to facilitate childbirth), brimrunar "wave-runes" (stanza 9, a spell for the protection of ships, with runes to be carved on the stem and on the rudder), limrunar "branch-runes" (stanza 10, a healing spell, the runes to be carved on trees "with boughs to the eastward bent"), [8]

  6. Magical tools in Wicca - Wikipedia

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    Before tools are used in ritual they first are consecrated.In the Gardnerian Book of Shadows, there is a section based entirely on consecrating ritual items. [5] [6] The Book of Shadows states items must be consecrated within a magic circle, at the centre of which lies a pentacle (or paten).

  7. List of works influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos - Wikipedia

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    Cast a Deadly Spell (1991), directed by Martin Campbell and starring Fred Ward, Julianne Moore, David Warner, and Clancy Brown. An original story that combines the Cthulhu mythos with a film noir detective mystery. [30] The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1992), directed by Jean-Paul Ouellette and starring Mark Kinsey Stephenson.

  8. Protection Spells - Wikipedia

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    Protection Spells is a tour-only album by Songs: Ohia. [3] It is a collection of 9 improvised pieces recorded by Jason Molina whilst on tour in 1999. It was limited to 500 copies and released by Secretly Canadian in 2000.

  9. Touch piece - Wikipedia

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    Queen Anne. Persons of royal blood were thought to have the "God-given" power of healing this condition by touch, and sovereigns of England and France practised this power to cure sufferers of scrofula, meaning "Swine Evil", as it was common in pigs, [8] a form of tuberculosis of the bones and lymph nodes, commonly known as the "King's or Queen's Evil" [9] or "Morbus Regius".