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==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], talk, tale, from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English]; akin to Old High German spel talk, tale
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 1579]
==Definitions==
*1a : a [[spoken]] [[word]] or form of words held to have [[magic]] [[power]]
:b : a state of [[enchantment]]
2: a strong compelling [[influence]] or [[attraction]]
==Description==
The best-known type of [[magical]] [[practice]] is the '''spell''', a [[ritualistic]] [[formula]] intended to bring about a specific [[effect]]. Spells are often [[spoken]] or written or physically constructed using a particular set of ingredients. The failure of a spell to work may be attributed to many [[causes]], such as a failure to follow the exact [[formula]], to the general circumstances being unconducive, to a lack of [[magical]] [[ability]], to a lack of willpower or to [[fraud]].
Academic historian [http://www.google.com/search?q=kheresa&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=rqT&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=Richard+Kieckhefer&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=bks:1&source=og&sa=N&tab=wp&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=a57de8ea49844639 Richard Kieckhefer] divides the category of spells into [[psychological]] [[magic]], which seeks to [[influence]] other people's [[minds]] to do the magician's will, such as with a [[love]] spell, or illusionary magic, which seeks to conjure the [[manifestation]] of various [[wonders]]. A spell that conjures up a banquet, or that confers [[invisibility]] on the magician, would be examples of [[illusion]]ary magic. [[Magic]] that causes objective physical change, in the [[manner]] of a [[miracle]], is not accommodated in Kieckhefer's categories.
[[Category: Religion]]
[[Category: Anthropology]]
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], talk, tale, from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English]; akin to Old High German spel talk, tale
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 1579]
==Definitions==
*1a : a [[spoken]] [[word]] or form of words held to have [[magic]] [[power]]
:b : a state of [[enchantment]]
2: a strong compelling [[influence]] or [[attraction]]
==Description==
The best-known type of [[magical]] [[practice]] is the '''spell''', a [[ritualistic]] [[formula]] intended to bring about a specific [[effect]]. Spells are often [[spoken]] or written or physically constructed using a particular set of ingredients. The failure of a spell to work may be attributed to many [[causes]], such as a failure to follow the exact [[formula]], to the general circumstances being unconducive, to a lack of [[magical]] [[ability]], to a lack of willpower or to [[fraud]].
Academic historian [http://www.google.com/search?q=kheresa&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=rqT&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=Richard+Kieckhefer&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=bks:1&source=og&sa=N&tab=wp&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=a57de8ea49844639 Richard Kieckhefer] divides the category of spells into [[psychological]] [[magic]], which seeks to [[influence]] other people's [[minds]] to do the magician's will, such as with a [[love]] spell, or illusionary magic, which seeks to conjure the [[manifestation]] of various [[wonders]]. A spell that conjures up a banquet, or that confers [[invisibility]] on the magician, would be examples of [[illusion]]ary magic. [[Magic]] that causes objective physical change, in the [[manner]] of a [[miracle]], is not accommodated in Kieckhefer's categories.
[[Category: Religion]]
[[Category: Anthropology]]
