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Kodoku (蠱毒, 'curse poison'), also called kodō (蠱道, 'curse method'), kojutsu (蠱術, 'curse technique'), and fuko (巫蠱, 'sorcery curse') is a type of poisonous magic found in Japanese folklore. It is the Japanese derivative of the Chinese gu magic. It is said to have been widely used in ancient China.
In magic literature, tricks are often called effects. Based on published literature and marketed effects, there are millions of effects; a short performance routine by a single magician may contain dozens of such effects. Some students of magic strive to refer to effects using a proper name, and also to properly attribute an effect to its ...
Yuji is a first-year Jujutsu Sorcerer at Tokyo Jujutsu High who is thrown into the world of sorcery after he ate a Cursed Object: a finger belonging to Ryomen Sukuna, a powerful sorcerer from the Heian period of Japan. With his classmates, Yuji exorcises Curses while trying to honor his grandfather's legacy and save others unconditionally so ...
The character Kain Hikaru from the manga Fairy Tail uses this technique as his magic. The character Nobara Kugisaki from the manga Jujutsu Kaisen is skilled in combat using a straw doll, a hammer and nails which she learned from her grandmother. The character Soichi Tsujii from the manga Junji Ito Collection used this way to curse people.
metagnomy / m ɪ ˈ t æ ɡ n oʊ m i / or / m ɪ ˈ t æ n oʊ m i /: by magic (Greek meta-, ' beside ' + -gnōmoniā, ' interpretation ') meteormancy / ˈ m iː t i oʊ r m æ n s i /: by meteors (English meteor + Greek manteía, ' prophecy ') meteoromancy / ˌ m iː t i ˈ ɒr oʊ m æ n s i /: by thunder and lightning (Greek meteōron ...
The occult is a category of supernatural beliefs and practices, encompassing such phenomena as those involving mysticism, spirituality, and magic in terms of any otherworldly agency. It can also refer to other non-religious supernatural ideas like extra-sensory perception and parapsychology .
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.
Page from the Greek Magical Papyri, a grimoire of antiquity. A grimoire (also known as a "book of spells", "magic book", or a "spellbook") is a textbook of magic, typically including instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms, and divination, and how to summon or invoke supernatural entities such as angels, spirits, deities ...