CHAPTER X THE MAGICAL WORD MOROCCO!

The word explained, linked up, gave significancethat magical word Morocco!

Magic and Magical rites.

Magical pretensions of certain herbs, etc. CHAPTER XVIII.

MAGIC AND MAGICAL RITES, &C. Few subjects present to a philosophic eye more matter of curious, important and instructive research than the natural history of religion.

It does not appear what good end could be gained, on the part of Providence, by the permission of these magical enchantments, supposing them supernatural; and if we imagine the Devil to have acted spontaneously, with a view to support his power and influence, he most manifestly erred in his design.

It may be that "the good folk" and the "peace-people" (sitchean) were so called that good intention might be compelled by the conjuring influence of a name, as well as to avoid giving offence by uttering real names, as if it were desired to exercise a magical influence by their use.

We who still hang on our walls at Christmas the mystic holly, are unconsciously perpetuating an old-world custom connected with belief in the efficacy of the magical circle to protect us against evil spirits.

This fragment owes its interest to the bitter infusion of personal feeling in the first scene, and its occasional charm to the march of some of the lines, especially those describing the Bourbon's advance on Rome; but the effect of the magical element is killed by previous parallels, while the story is chaotic and absurd.

The monkeys, enslaved by the powers of a magical hat, destroyed the Scarecrow and tin man and enslaved Dorothy and the Lion.

It was the same way when the two magical types of light collided.

Transportation is either by foot or via some magical contrivance such as the animated Gump or the famous Red Wagon.

As it comprises so much land, they might eventually break through our magical barriers and invisibility spellseven the spell that diverts them off course whenever they try to reach us.

Memory, for example, is fresher and more assimilative in childhood, but deteriorates very often as the higher faculties come into use; and indeed we cannot fail to see how the introduction of printing, writing, and mnemonic arts and artifices of all kinds, has lowered the average power of civilized memory, and made the ordinary feats of more primitive times seem to us magical and incredible.

Not apart from the world her thoughts and desires revelled in; not her hopes, for she had not gotten so far as to hope to live in a magical world like Miss Prudence.

And yet when Miss Prudence did not wear white she was robed in deep mourning; there was sorrow in Miss Prudence's magical world.

The adventurer's stick might have been bewitched that night, so magical was its work; a single blow on the nearest head (but believe it was selected with care!)

And then, out of the darkness of her heart, Lancelot's image rose before her stronger than all, tenderer than all; and as she remembered his magical faculty of anticipating all her thoughts, embodying for her all her vague surmises, he seemed to beckon her towards him.

There's something almost magical in the touchjust a little, little touchof the one we love best.

The word "cash" had a magical influence over him.

This time she told all she knew about the birthday of this Earth, one of the most magical and splendid and strange of her stories.

Then kneeling before the altar of St. Stephen he celebrated mass, using the service for St. Stephen's Day with its psalm, "Princes sat and spake against me,""a magical rite," said Foliot, "and an act done in contempt of the king"-and commended himself to the care of the first Christian martyr, and of the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury, Aelfheah.

Technology is almost magical, and ambition for a better life is now universal.

Curnelius Agrippa, his fourth book of Occult Philosophy, or Geomancy: Magical Elements o Peter de Abona, the nature of Spirits: made English by R Turner. 30.

Medicina magica tamen Physica; Magical but Natural Physick: containing the general cures of infirmities and diseases belonging to the bodies of men, as also to other animals and domistick creatures, by way of Transplantation: with a description of the most excellent Cordial out of Gold; by Sam. Boulton of Salop.