Field of Magic

Field of Magic
Author: John Cairney
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2023-02-09
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1476646678

Superstition has been a part of baseball from the beginning. From good luck charms to human mascots to ritual statues of Babe Ruth to the curse of Colonel Sanders, there may be almost as many superstitions as players (or fans). Drawing on social science, religious studies and SABRmetrics, this book explores the rich history of supernatural belief in the game and documents a wide variety of rituals, fetishes, taboos and jinxes. Some of these have changed over time but coping with uncertainty on the field through magical thinking remains a constant.

Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic

Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic
Author: C. Riley Augé
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2022-07-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800735049

By bringing together in one place specific objects, materials, and features indicating ritual, religious, or magical belief used by people around the world and through time, this tool will assist archaeologists in identifying evidence of belief-related behaviors and broadening their understanding of how those behaviors may also be seen through less obvious evidential lines. Instruction and templates for recording, typologizing, classifying, and analyzing ritual or magico-religious material culture are also provided to guide researchers in the survey, collection, and cataloging processes. The bulleted formatting and topical range make this a highly accessible work, while providing an incredible wealth of information in a single volume.

The Fishy Field Trip

The Fishy Field Trip
Author: Martin Schwabacher
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780439560528

When their class project for Ocean Awareness Day falls into Ms. Frizzle's fish tank, Tim and his classmates board the Magic School Bus with their teacher for a real underwater adventure.

Magic Words

Magic Words
Author: Edward Field
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1998
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

A collection of poems based on songs and stories gathered by Knud Rasmussen on the Fifth Thule Expedition, which recorded Inuit legends about the universe and its creation.

The Magic Pawnshop

The Magic Pawnshop
Author: Rachel Field
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1927
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN:

A little girl goes to a magic pawnshop to buy a miracle cure for her uncle. The witch who runs the shop must fly away on her broomstick to gather the ingredients and leaves the girl to mind the shop.

The Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip

The Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip
Author: Joanna Cole
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1997
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0590446835

Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a field trip through the town's electrical wires so they can learn how electricity is generated and how it is used.

The Wizard's Handbook

The Wizard's Handbook
Author: Caroline Tiger
Publisher: Puffin
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780141314877

A spoof field guide, which informs all aspiring wizards about wizardry and magic. The handbook includes wizard history, magic spells, illusions, photographs and a personal ID card. Fun quizzes and helpful diagrams should enable anyone to become a fully fledged wizard.

Self-Working Table Magic

Self-Working Table Magic
Author: Karl Fulves
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2013-06-10
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0486319083

Ninety-seven mystifying tricks done with ordinary objects that can be borrowed from the audience. Make coins appear or disappear; matchsticks jump into the air; classic cups and balls; more. 185 illustrations.

The Book of Magic

The Book of Magic
Author: Alice Hoffman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982189460

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.

Magic

Magic
Author: Ernesto De Martino
Publisher: Hau
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Basilicata (Italy)
ISBN: 9780990505099

Though his work was little known outside Italian intellectual circles for most of the twentieth century, anthropologist and historian of religions Ernesto de Martino is now recognized as one of the most original thinkers in the field. This book is testament to de Martino's innovation and engagement with Hegelian historicism and phenomenology--a work of ethnographic theory way ahead of its time. This new translation of Sud e Magia, his 1959 study of ceremonial magic and witchcraft in southern Italy, shows how De Martino is not interested in the question of whether magic is rational or irrational but rather in why it came to be perceived as a problem of knowledge in the first place. Setting his exploration within his wider, pathbreaking theorization of ritual, as well as in the context of his politically sensitive analysis of the global south's historical encounters with Western science, he presents the development of magic and ritual in Enlightenment Naples as a paradigmatic example of the complex dynamics between dominant and subaltern cultures. Far ahead of its time, Magic is still relevant as anthropologists continue to wrestle with modernity's relationship with magical thinking.