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✦ A Visit to the Exhibition: The Door Between

The crowd drifted forward. Lillian was taking notes when she touched my arm. “Do you feel that?”
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✦ Between the Prophet and the Witch: Reclaiming the Forbidden Voice of Wisdom

He told us this as though reciting family folklore — yet the tremor in his voice betrayed something deeper.
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The Invention of Evil: How the Devil Took Shape in Christian Thought

In the end, the Devil’s greatest trick may not have been convincing the world he doesn’t exist, as Baudelaire quipped, but persuading humanity to search for him only outside themselves.
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Folklore?

“Superstition, or warning?” Sylvia’s gaze drifted toward the window. “The dead have long memories, Lillian. They walk closer at this time of year. Sometimes they whisper through horses, or fog, or gulls that cannot rest.”
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“Can a Spell Change the World—or Only the One Who Casts It?”

If we performed it, Venus herself might soften Wren’s heart — and with him, the town.
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The Song at Lizard Point

“I see no scaled maidens, Sylvia—only the play of light and wave. Though…” She paused. “There is a pattern.
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What Is Magic — and Who Uses It, and Why?

We use magic not simply to predict or control, but to orient ourselves in a world that often feels overwhelming.
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Magic, Medicine, and Belief: Medieval Hodgepodge and Modern Echoes

The painting Love Magic (1478–80), now in the Museum der Bildenden Kunst in Leipzig, offers a striking entry point into the medieval entanglement of science, religion, and magic. A young woman, nude but for delicate shoes and a transparent veil, sprinkles powder over what appears to be a heart in a casket. In the fifteenth century, the…


