LEADER 04909nam 2200541 450 001 9910794798203321 005 20230629222554.0 010 $a90-04-46600-2 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004466005 035 $a(CKB)4100000012037819 035 $z(OCoLC)1251765564 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004466005 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6737262 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6737262 035 $a(OCoLC)1272999690 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000012037819 100 $a20220626d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun| uuuua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aFictional practice $emagic, narration, and the power of imagination /$fedited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Dirk Johannsen 210 1$aLeiden, Netherlands ;$aBoston, Massachusetts :$cBrill,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aAries Book Series ;$v30 311 $a90-04-46599-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aList of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- ? Bernd-Christian?? ??Otto??? ?and? ???Dirk?? ??Johannsen?????? -- 1???Magic as Pollution: Fictional Blasphemies and Ritual Realities in the Roman Period (1st cen.? BCE-4th cen.? C)??? -- ? Kyle?? ??Fraser?????? -- 2???The Medieval Anti-Faust: Stories, Rituals, and Self-Representations in the Flowers of Heavenly Teaching??? -- ? Claire?? ??Fanger?????? -- 3???Enchantment and Anger in Medieval Icelandic Literature and Later Folklore -- ? A?ð?alhei?ð?ur?? ??Gu?ð?mundsd?ó?ttir?????? -- 4???Narratives of the Witch, the Magician, and the Devil in Early Modern Grimoires -- ? Owen?? ??Davies?????? -- 5???When Ritual Texts Become Legendary ? Practice and Fiction in Nordic Folklore??? -- ? Ane?? ??Ohrvik?????? -- 6??Magic and Literary Imagination in H. P. Blavatsky's Theosophy -- ? Marco?? ??Frenschkowski?????? -- 7???The Emergence of Fictional Practice in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: W.B. Yeats' Talismanic Poetry??? -- ? Dirk?? ??Johannsen?????? -- 8???"My Life in a Love Cult": Tantra, Orientalism, and Sex Magic in Early Twentieth-Century Fiction??? -- ? Hugh B???.? ??Urban?????? -- 9???Drawing Down the Moon: From Classical Greece to Modern Wicca???? -- ? Ethan?? ??Doyle White?????? -- 10???Drinking from Hecate's Fountain:? Kenneth Grant's Typhonian Trilogies and the Fusion Between Literature and Practiced Magic??? -- ? Christian?? ??Giudice?????? -- 11???If One Knows Where to Look, Fiction is Magic: Reading Fictional Texts as Manuals of Magic in Post-Soviet Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus??? -- ? Kateryna?? ??Zorya?????? -- 12???"Cthulhu Gnosis" Monstrosity, Selfhood, and Secular Re-Enchantment in Lovecraftian Occultural Practice??? -- ? Justin?? ??Woodman?????? -- 13???A Magickal School in the Twenty-First Century: The Grey School of Wizardry and Its Prehistory??? -- ? Carole M???.? ??Cusack?????? -- 14?Fictional Practice from Antiquity to Today -- ? Bernd-Christian?? ??Otto?????? -- Index. 330 $aTo what extent were practitioners of magic inspired by fictional accounts of their art? In how far did the daunting narratives surrounding legendary magicians such as Theophilus of Adana, Cyprianus of Antioch, Johann Georg Faust or Agrippa of Nettesheim rely on real-world events or practices? Fourteen original case studies present material from late antiquity to the twenty-first century and explore these questions in a systematic manner. By coining the notion of 'fictional practice', the editors discuss the emergence of novel, imaginative types of magic from the nineteenth century onwards when fiction and practice came to be more and more intertwined or even fully amalgamated. This is the first comparative study that systematically relates fiction and practice in the history of magic. 410 0$aAries Book Series ;$v30. 606 $aMagic$xHistory 606 $aLiterature and morals 606 $aMagic in literature$xHistory 615 0$aMagic$xHistory. 615 0$aLiterature and morals. 615 0$aMagic in literature$xHistory. 676 $a133.4309 702 $aOtto$b Bernd-Christian 702 $aJohannsen$b Dirk 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794798203321 996 $aFictional practice$93705463 997 $aUNINA