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The player is free to travel across different locations of the world (both real, like London, New York and Seoul, and mythical, such as Agartha, the legendary city located within Hollow Earth [7] and the Hell dimension) and even in time, to pursue the overall plot and investigate new mysteries in connection to the dark invasion.
An example of the use of shiny apotropaic objects in Judaism can be found in the so-called "Halsgezeige" or textile neckbands used in the birthing customs of the Franco-German border region. Shiny coins or colourful stones would be sewn onto the neckband or on a central amulet in order to distract the evil eye .
Three magical parchments belonging to Joseph Smith and his family have been photographed and documented by scholars. Dan Vogel notes that both 'plate' and 'breastplate' figure in Smith's early claims; Vogel further notes that one of the parchments is a lamen with gold ink ('golden plate') while another was folded and worn in a pouch over one's chest ('breastplate'). [3]
Traditional medieval Arabic and Hebraic demonology both cultivated the legend of the Ring of Solomon, used to control demons and / or djinn.Tales of magic rings feature in One Thousand and One Nights, where the fisherman Judar bin Omar finds the ring of the enchanter Al-Shamardal, [7] and the cobbler Ma'aruf discovers the signet of Shaddád ibn Aad. [8]
In his 1978 book, A History of White Magic, recognised occult author Gareth Knight traces the origins of white magic to early adaptations of paleolithic religion and early religious history in general, including the polytheistic traditions of Ancient Egypt and the later monotheistic ideas of Judaism and early Christianity.
A book of the Office of Spirits: The Occult Virtue of Plants and Some Rare Magical Charms & Spells (AKA Liber Officiorum Spirituum). Teitan Press. ISBN 9780933429253. Peterson, Joseph (2009). Arbatel-- Concerning the Magic of the Ancients: Original Sourcebook of Angel Magic. Ibis Press. ISBN 9780892541522.
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In parapsychology, psychometry (from Greek: ψυχή, psukhē, "spirit, soul" and μέτρον, metron, "measure"), [1] also known as token-object reading, [2] or psychoscopy, [3] is a form of extrasensory perception characterized by the claimed ability to glean accurate knowledge of an object's history by making physical contact with that object. [4]