A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts

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Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 1581575548
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (815 download)

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Book Synopsis A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts by : J. W. Ocker

Download or read book A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts written by J. W. Ocker and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Award-winning travel writer spends an autumn living in one of America's spookiest tourist destinations: Salem, Massachusetts Salem, Massachusetts, may be the strangest city on the planet. A single event in its 400 years of history—the Salem Witch Trials of 1692—transformed it into the Capital of Creepy in America. But Salem is a seasonal town—and its season happens to be Halloween. Every October, this small city of 40,000 swells to close to half a million as witches, goblins, ghouls, and ghosts (and their admirers) descend on Essex Street. For the fall of 2015, occult enthusiast and Edgar Award–winning writer J.W. Ocker moved his family of four to downtown Salem to experience firsthand a season with the witch, visiting all of its historical sites and macabre attractions. In between, he interviews its leaders and citizens, its entrepreneurs and visitors, its street performers and Wiccans, its psychics and critics, creating a picture of this unique place and the people who revel in, or merely weather, its witchiness.

Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion in 17th-century Massachusetts

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Publisher : Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion in 17th-century Massachusetts by : Richard Weisman

Download or read book Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion in 17th-century Massachusetts written by Richard Weisman and published by Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the social processes underlying support and resistance to collective action against witchcraft in seventeenth-century Massachusetts; providing theological interpretations of witchcraft, focusing on the relationship between witchcraft and magic, and considering the interrelationships between the two.

Magic Lessons

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982108851
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Book Synopsis Magic Lessons by : Alice Hoffman

Download or read book Magic Lessons written by Alice Hoffman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1600s, Maria was abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. Under the care of Hannah Owens, who recognizes that Maria has a gift, she learns about the 'Unnamed Arts.' When Maria is abandoned by the man who has declared his love for her, she follows him to Salem, Massachusetts. She invokes a curse that will haunt her family for generations. And she learns the lesson that she will carry with her for the rest of her life: Love is the only thing that matters.

The Rules of Magic

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501137492
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis The Rules of Magic by : Alice Hoffman

Download or read book The Rules of Magic written by Alice Hoffman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick from beloved author Alice Hoffman—the spellbinding prequel to Practical Magic. Find your magic. For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three children are dangerously unique. Difficult Franny, with skin as pale as milk and blood red hair, shy and beautiful Jet, who can read other people’s thoughts, and charismatic Vincent, who began looking for trouble on the day he could walk. From the start Susanna sets down rules for her children: No walking in the moonlight, no red shoes, no wearing black, no cats, no crows, no candles, no books about magic. And most importantly, never, ever, fall in love. But when her children visit their Aunt Isabelle, in the small Massachusetts town where the Owens family has been blamed for everything that has ever gone wrong, they uncover family secrets and begin to understand the truth of who they are. Yet, the children cannot escape love even if they try, just as they cannot escape the pains of the human heart. The two beautiful sisters will grow up to be the memorable aunts in Practical Magic, while Vincent, their beloved brother, will leave an unexpected legacy. Alice Hoffman delivers “fairy-tale promise with real-life struggle” (The New York Times Book Review) in a story how the only remedy for being human is to be true to yourself. Thrilling and exquisite, real and fantastical, The Rules of Magic is “irresistible…the kind of book you race through, then pause at the last forty pages, savoring your final moments with the characters” (USA TODAY, 4/4 stars).

Your Vote Is Magic!

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Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456610074
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)

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Book Synopsis Your Vote Is Magic! by : Lyn Dillies

Download or read book Your Vote Is Magic! written by Lyn Dillies and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's premier female Illusionist, Lyn Dillies, adds another DIMENSION to her sparkling career: YOUR VOTE IS MAGIC!, the book based on the groundbreaking illusion she conjured up to deliver a powerful message to get out the vote. At a rally in New Bedford, Massachusetts before the 2008 Presidential election, Lyn produced a live elephant and a live donkey, (the two party mascots) "out of thin air!" The illusion impressively delivered the non-partisan message that YOUR VOTE IS MAGIC! and prompted a large voter registration. In the book that TELLS ALL (Almost) . . . Lyn REVEALS just how important your vote really is! On a personal basis, Lyn describes HOW and WHY she created the illusion, overcoming seemingly daunting obstacles. Challenges are nothing new to Lyn. She is well known for imaginative, unique programs and illlusions. The book, YOUR VOTE IS MAGIC! emphasizes Lyn's personal philosophy: With enough determination, anything is possible. YOUR VOTE IS MAGIC! contains many visuals that enrich the story, including photos of the animal "stars" and the preparations for the illusion. There are provocative quotes about voting from famous folk; whimsical political cartoons; and an absorbing review of the successful woman's suffrage movement. As the title implies, it's truly a MAGICAL COMBINATION of illusion and reality and delivers a colorful, persuasive message to first-time voters. This book will be happily passed along to NEW GENERATIONS of voters as they begin their journey to responsible citizenship.

Final Notes on Witchcraft in Massachusetts

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Final Notes on Witchcraft in Massachusetts by : George Henry Moore

Download or read book Final Notes on Witchcraft in Massachusetts written by George Henry Moore and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bibliographical Notes on Witchcraft in Massachusetts

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis Bibliographical Notes on Witchcraft in Massachusetts by : George Henry Moore

Download or read book Bibliographical Notes on Witchcraft in Massachusetts written by George Henry Moore and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Extra Sensory Perception

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Publisher : La Porta Magica
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 9 pages
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Book Synopsis Extra Sensory Perception by : Tony Binarelli

Download or read book Extra Sensory Perception written by Tony Binarelli and published by La Porta Magica. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Billet test" is one of the classics in mentalism: the mentalist divines a word, a number or a drawing made by a spectator, without coming in contact with the paper. Numberless are the methods designed to solve this problem: "center tears", window envelopes, "umbrella moves" or billet switches. All these methods, in my opinion, have a great weakness: the mentalist must repeatedly touch the billet. With that in mind, I looked for a method to avoid all this "manipulation" and that would appear as real telepathy. What I am going to reveal to you, I think is a good solution and it served me well since I came up with it in 1976. It has passed the scrutiny of many different audiences and many "in the know" such as Frank Garcia, Tony Spina and Tony Slydini, to whom I showed it at the "Tannen Jubilee" in 1977, giving me great satisfaction. Once read and practiced, you have a surefire effect in your professional repertoire and, most of all, you will be able to perform it anywhere, anytime, without using any electric/electronic device or stooges of any kind.

The Book of Magic

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982189460
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Book Synopsis The Book of Magic by : Alice Hoffman

Download or read book The Book of Magic written by Alice Hoffman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters. The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger—the curse is already at work. A frantic attempt to save a young man’s life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they travel from Paris to London to the English countryside where their ancestor Maria Owens first practiced the Unnamed Art. The younger generation discovers secrets that have been hidden from them in matters of both magic and love by Sally, their fiercely protective mother. As Kylie Owens uncovers the truth about who she is and what her own dark powers are, her aunt Franny comes to understand that she is ready to sacrifice everything for her family, and Sally Owens realizes that she is willing to give up everything for love. The Book of Magic is a breathtaking conclusion that celebrates mothers and daughters, sisters and brothers, and anyone who has ever been in love.

The Devil in Massachusetts

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Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789125626
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Book Synopsis The Devil in Massachusetts by : Marion L. Starkey

Download or read book The Devil in Massachusetts written by Marion L. Starkey and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dramatic and deeply moving book combines a narrative that has the pace and excitement of a novel, a timeless portrait of bigotry and a self-righteousness, and an authentic history of the Salem witch trials. It stands alone in applying modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria. Nearly three hundred years ago the fate of Massachusetts was delivered into the hands of a pack of young girls. Because of the fantasies and hysterical antics of unbalanced teenagers, decent men and women were sent to the gallows. Medical science that day had no better explanation than “the evil eye”; and so Massachusetts was precipitated into a reign of terror that did not end until the highest in the land had been accused of witchcraft—ministers, a judge, the Governor’s lady. One by one were brought to the gallows such diverse personalities as a decent grandmother; a rakish, pipe-smoking female tramp; a plain farmer who thought only to save his wife from molestation; a lame old man whose toothless gums did not deny expression to a very salty vocabulary. But from the very beginning some fought the hysteria, pitting sanity against insanity, and eventually forced the community to atone for its tragic error. Written with sly humor, much of the book reads like a novel. In the end, one is pretty sure what was wrong with Cotton Mather, the august judges, and the tormented young girls. “The Devil in Massachusetts is a vivid and compassionate reconstruction of the Salem witchcraft hysteria. Marion Starkey has written history which illustrates the past and at the same time packs and important contemporary moral.”—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. “It is certainly a ‘one sitting’ sort of book, with the dramatic appeal of the well-told story and the significances of good human history.”—Gerald Warner Brace “A fresh and full narration...of one of the most lurid, pitiful and deeply significant episodes in American history....”—Odell Shepard

The Good Witch of Salem

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ISBN 13 : 9781735231815
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis The Good Witch of Salem by : Ashley Tina

Download or read book The Good Witch of Salem written by Ashley Tina and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magic begins when the Good Witch of Salem glares into her crystal ball to find that someone is in need of kindness and love. With the help of her cat Aura, the Good Witch creates colorful potions in her gleaming cauldron. Will the potions be enough to guide the way to healing and happiness? Can the Good Witch of Salem use her magic to help one find their true self?

Stranger Magic

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674065077
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Stranger Magic by : Marina Warner

Download or read book Stranger Magic written by Marina Warner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-03 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exoticization of magic, and the growing acceptance of myth and magic in contemporary experience.

Magic

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Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262543036
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Book Synopsis Magic by : Jamie Sutcliffe

Download or read book Magic written by Jamie Sutcliffe and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first accessible reader on magic’s generative relationship with contemporary art practice. From the hexing of presidents to a renewed interest in herbalism and atavistic forms of self-care, magic has furnished the contemporary imagination with mysterious and often disorienting bodies of arcane thought and practice. This volume brings together writings by artists, magicians, historians, and theorists that illuminate the vibrant correspondences animating contemporary art’s varied encounters with magical culture, inspiring a reconsideration of the relationship between the symbolic and the pragmatic. Dispensing with simple narratives of reenchantment, Magic illustrates the intricate ways in which we have to some extent always been captivated by the allure of the numinous. It demonstrates how magical culture’s tendencies toward secrecy, occlusion, and encryption might provide contemporary artists with strategies of remedial communality, a renewed faith in the invocational power of personal testimony, and a poetics of practice that could boldly question our political circumstances, from the crisis of climate collapse to the strictures of socially sanctioned techniques of medical and psychiatric care. Tracing its various emergences through the shadows of modernity, the circuitries of ritual media, and declarations of psychic self-defence, Magic deciphers the evolution of a “magical-critical” thinking that productively complicates, contradicts and expands the boundaries of our increasingly weird present.

The Salem Witch Hunt

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ISBN 13 : 9781950922673
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (226 download)

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Book Synopsis The Salem Witch Hunt by : Captivating History

Download or read book The Salem Witch Hunt written by Captivating History and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades after witch-hunting had begun to die down in Europe, North America was about to witness its bloodiest witch hunt in history. The Massachusetts of 1692 was a very different one to the state we know today. Populated by colonists, many of them a generation or less from life in an England bathed in religious turmoil,

Six Women of Salem

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Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0306822342
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Book Synopsis Six Women of Salem by : Marilynne K. Roach

Download or read book Six Women of Salem written by Marilynne K. Roach and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Salem Witch Trials told through the lives of six women Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the twenty who were executed and the five who perished in prison, 207 individuals had been accused, 74 had been "afflicted," 32 had officially accused their fellow neighbors, and 255 ordinary people had been inexorably drawn into that ruinous and murderous vortex, and this doesn't include the religious, judicial, and governmental leaders. All this adds up to what the Rev. Cotton Mather called "a desolation of names." The individuals involved are too often reduced to stock characters and stereotypes when accuracy is sacrificed to indignation. And although the flood of names and detail in the history of an extraordinary event like the Salem witch trials can swamp the individual lives involved, individuals still deserve to be remembered and, in remembering specific lives, modern readers can benefit from such historical intimacy. By examining the lives of six specific women, Marilynne Roach shows readers what it was like to be present throughout this horrific time and how it was impossible to live through it unchanged.

Reading the Leaves

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593086554
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading the Leaves by : Sandra Mariah Wright

Download or read book Reading the Leaves written by Sandra Mariah Wright and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated guide to tapping into your intuition through the simple act of sitting down to a cup of tea. Whether you're wondering about career, finances, love, or health, Salem witches Sandra Mariah Wright and Leanne Marrama are here to help build your intuitive skills and transform your life. Reading the Leaves shows you how to: • brew a cup of tea for divination purposes • interpret more than 200 time-tested symbols that are most likely to show up, such as hearts and anchors, and what their size, location, and relationship to other shapes mean • set an intention • create a regular tea ritual • keep a tea leaf reading journal • do a reading for family and friends • make their favorite tea time recipes • respond when a "bad" symbol shows up You already possess the tools, and with Sandra and Leanne's guidance, the true journey of self-discovery can begin. You don't have to be a witch to find your inner magic.

Practical Magic

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ISBN 13 : 9781471169199
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (691 download)

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Book Synopsis Practical Magic by : Alice Hoffman

Download or read book Practical Magic written by Alice Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved classic novel, the basis of the classic film starring Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock As children, sisters Gillian and Sally were forever outsiders in their small New England town, teased, taunted and shunned for the air of magic that seems to sparkle in the air around them. All Gillian and Sally ever wanted was to get away. And eventually they do - one marries, the other runs as far from home as she can manage. Years later, however, tragedy will bring the sisters back together. And they'll find that no matter what else may happen, they'll always have each other. An enchanting tale of love, forgiveness and family, Practical Magic is beloved of readers of all ages. Book 3 in the Practical Magic series. *~*~*Readers love Practical Magic*~*~* 'A real pleasure' Kate Atkinson 'Simply brilliant' Daily Mail '[A] delicious fantasy of witchcraft and love in a world where gardens smell of lemon verbena and happy endings are possible' Cosmopolitan 'What do you do when your long lost little sister shows up on your suburban front step... a dead man in the Oldsmobile that's blocking your driveway? ...You help her bury him in your backyard, underneath a wilting lilac bush that will suddenly spring back to life, bearing masses of heady flowers that remind everyone who passes by of desires they thought they'd long since stifled' Vogue 'Dark comedy and a light touch carry the story along to a truly Gothic climax, complete with heaving skies and witchery on the lawn' New York Times 'A scrim of magic lies gently over [this] fictional world, in which lilacs bloom riotously in July, a lovesick boy's elbows sizzle on a diner countertop and a toad expectorates a silver ring...' Publishers Weekly