Spellbound

magic, ritual and witchcraft

by Sophie Page, Marina Wallace, Owen Davies, Malcolm Gaskill, Ceri Houlbrook & Ashmolean Museum

First published:
21st century
Language: English
Content type: Fiction

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Description

Spellbound' explores the concept of 'magical thinking', which describes how people in all ages and cultures have sought to connect with an unseen world of perceived power. This concept of magical thinking is used here to explore the history of medicine and the mind, focusing in particular on magic's secular expressions. Spells, magical objects and rituals are engines of hope, and hope is essential to physical and mental health, indeed to survival. These ideas are explored and conveyed through the extraordinary visual culture of magic, offering an introduction to diverse magical objects, from the exquisite, such as engraved rings and illuminated manuscripts, to the unsettling - a shoe embedded in a wall or a bull's heart pierced with nails.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ritual magic and grimoires and Witchcraft and folk magic.

Ritual magic and grimoires
Controlled discovery queries from harvard, libris, and wellcome matched “ritual magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subtitle, “Magic” in the description, “Spells” in the description, and 2 additional metadata match(es).
- “ritual magic”· via Harvard LibraryCloud
- “ritual magic”· via Libris, National Library of Sweden
- “ritual magic”· via Wellcome Collection
- “Magic”· in subtitle
- “Magic”· in description
- “Spells”· in description
Witchcraft and folk magic
Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the subtitle, “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata, and “Witchcraft” in the edition subtitle.
- “Witchcraft”· in subtitle
- “Witchcraft”· in subject
- “Witchcraft”· in edition subtitle

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Editions

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Edition	Date	Publisher	Language	ISBN	Access	Links
magic, ritual and witchcraft Wellcome Collection bibliographic record 176 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 26 cm	2018	Ashmolean; Ashmolean Museum	English	9781910807248 1910807249	Catalog record	Wellcome Collection (opens in a new tab) Harvard LibraryCloud (opens in a new tab) Libris, National Library of Sweden (opens in a new tab) Libris, National Library of Sweden (opens in a new tab)