Best of
Magic

1988

The Worlds of Chrestomanci


Diana Wynne Jones - 1988
    Contains:Charmed Life, The Lives of Christopher Chant, Witch Week, and The Magicians of Caprona.

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 1


Diana Wynne Jones - 1988
    The Chants are a family strong in magic, but neither Christopher Chant nor Cat Chant can work even the simplest of spells. Who could have dreamed that both Christopher and Cat were born with nine lives--or that they could lose them so quickly?

Wheel of the Year: Living the Magical Life


Pauline Campanelli - 1988
    Just look at a few of the things shared in this gentle, loving book:For December: The Magic of Mistletoe; The Ritual Burning of the Yule Log; Magical Uses of Ashes from the Yule Fire; A Ritual for Cutting Sacred Fir; The Pagan Symbolism of Santa Claus. For March: Nine Magical Woods for the Beltane Fire; Psychic Skills for Working Magic; Making and Using the Magic (Black) Mirror; Telepathy; The Ouija Board; A Ritual for Opening the Heart Chakra. For May: Seeing Faeries; A May Wine Ritual; Symbolism of the Maypole; Sacred Marriages; Hawthorn Protection Amulet. For August: Celebration of the Grain Harvest; Ritual for Baking Sacred Bread; Making an Onion Charm; Magical Symbolism of Garlic; Natural Dyes and Inks. For October: Apple Traditions; A Hazelnut Charm; The Man in Black; Ritual Costuming and Mask Making; Divination for Samhain. This is only a small amount of the lore and a few of the many activities you will learn for each of these five months, in Wheel of the Year. The other seven months of the year are covered in depth, too, and each chapter has beautiful illustrations by Dan Campanelli.Whether you live in a city, suburb, or farm and whether you live by yourself, with a partner, or with a family, Wheel of the Year will reintroduce you to the magic that is all around you.

Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic


Mark Wilson - 1988
    Provides diagrams and detailed instructions for performing more than three hundred magic tricks, including tricks with cards, money, ropes, handkerchiefs, and cups and balls.

Pongwiffy: A Witch of Dirty Habits


Kaye Umansky - 1988
    Everything is almost perfect -- until a gaggle of Goblins move in next door. Heavens above, they're enough to wake the dead. It's time to move. But where? And where will she find a much-needed assistant? Sharkadder persuades Pongwiffy to advertise...but the only asistant who answers is a hamster. What's a witch to do? Forget about finding a new slum! How can Pongwiffy cope with a gang of Goblins, a sassy rodent assistant, and the Witches' Coven, who are waiting for an explanation? Even worse, she's responsible for Sourmuddle's 200th birthday cake. What will happen if Pongwiffy messes that up?

Love, Sex, and Your Heart


Alexander Lowen - 1988
    This groundbreaking new study from the author of the bestselling Love and Orgasm, The Language of the Body, Betrayal of the Body, and Narcissism reveals that heart diseases can actually be linked to disturbances in sex and love. Dr. Alexander Lowen explains: how emotions are expressed physically, even in the way our bodies grow, how pain can freeze psychological development, preventing us from giving and receiving love, how blocked emotions can literally constrict the heart and heighten our risk of coronary disease, how special therapeutic techniques can unlock repressions and reduce strain on the heart, why true sexual fulfillment is the key to emotional wholeness. This revolutionary book does for unfulfilled love what the Friedman/Rosenman classic Type A Behavior and Your Heart did for agression-charts its physical effects and shows how to relieve or prevent them. Through actual case histories and revealing diagrams Love, Sex, and Your Heart demonstrates how it is possible to protect your heart and, at the same time, to achieve a more loving, peaceful, and rewarding life.

The Changeling Sea


Patricia A. McKillip - 1988
    Her mother sinks into a deep depression and spends her days gazing out at the sea. Unable to control her anger and sadness any longer, Peri uses the small magic she knows to hex the sea. And suddenly into her drab life come the King's sons—changelings with strange ties to the underwater kingdom—a young magician, and, finally, love.

Michelin Green Guide New York City


Guides Touristiques Michelin - 1988
    This guide provides a useful travel companion, offering suggestions on what to see and what to do, background on history and cultural heritage.

Planetary Magick: The Heart of Western Magick


Osborne Phillips - 1988
    Through the use of this complete ceremonial system, level after level of the psyche will be opened up harmoniously and safely, and your creative potential will be enhanced.

Foundations of Practical Magic: An Introduction to Qabalistic, Magical and Meditative Techniques


Israel Regardie - 1988
    The emphasis throughout is on practical methods of releasing the vast inner potential on which magic depends, with the aim of finding the jewel of a new life a life full of creative possibilities based on a radical renewal of consciousness."

The Night the Toys Came to Life


Enid Blyton - 1988
    After they went to bed, Teddy let all the other toys out, for a night of fun and holiday frolic. Full-color illustrations throughout.

Michelin Green Guide Normandy


Guides Touristiques Michelin - 1988
    This addition to the acclaimed Michelin Green Guide series provides travellers with a comprehensive guide to the cultural and natural highlights of Normandy'

The Railway Children / Five Children and It / Half Magic


E. Nesbit - 1988
    

Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy


Peter Lamborn Wilson - 1988
    A search for the poetic facts of heresy in Islamic history, ranging from sacred pederasty in Persian sufism and forbidden imagery in Islamic art to the inner teachings of the Assassins, the heretical influences on Shiite terrorism, and the mystical uses of wine, opium, and hashish.

Roberto Giobbi's Card College Light: Professional Card Magic Without Sleight-of-Hand


Roberto Giobbi - 1988
    For whom is this book intended? It is for beginners, of course - but by no means in total. This book is intended for everyone who has always wanted to perform card tricks, but who didn't have the time necessary to learn complex routines, or the years necessary to master difficult techniques. So, yes, this book is certainly meant for beginners. However, it is also directed at those who are already proficient in the craft. Card College Light is in a class apart from other books that focus on sleightless card tricks. When it comes to artistic considerations - interpretation, staging, communication and psychology - other books seldom even recognize such concepts. Card College Light strives to remain as simple as possible, yet to identify concepts and to open doors that put sleightless tricks into the context of artistic and utterly baffling card magic. Although other books consider the same type of material, their approaches to it are quite different from Giobbi's. Most of the tricks taught are from Mr. Giobbi's active professional repertoire, with which he baffles the public and magicians, too. Every trick can be done with any deck of cards of average quality, and many can be done under all performance conditions, with a borrowed deck and no preparation. With these sleightless tricks, you can easily acquire a reputation as a magician who can really make magic. When It Comes to Great Card Magic There Is More to the Secret Than Just the Secret!

The Occult in Art


Owen S. Rachleff - 1988
    

Witch's Formulary And Spellbook


Taro Star - 1988
    The spell, ingredients and names for many things in present day practice in the United States, have come from the Tradition of Magic brought to the New World by the African Slave.