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... Effects of Stones • The Symbolic Horns and Wings Explained THE MAGIC OF THE GERMANS . Magic among the Germans Magic among the Early Christians Magic of the Ancient Germans and of the Northern Nations The Salic Law against Witchcraft ...
... Effects of Stones • The Symbolic Horns and Wings Explained THE MAGIC OF THE GERMANS . Magic among the Germans Magic among the Early Christians Magic of the Ancient Germans and of the Northern Nations The Salic Law against Witchcraft ...
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... effects . Water , air , and light , and the universal earth - magnetism , are the general powers by which nature performs her secret operations ; to which , however , we are not conducted by the ordinary aspect of nature , and still ...
... effects . Water , air , and light , and the universal earth - magnetism , are the general powers by which nature performs her secret operations ; to which , however , we are not conducted by the ordinary aspect of nature , and still ...
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... effect on the patient . At all events , incubation was practised in those temples where the mag- netical rings were found . But those wings constituted regular chains of magnets , strengthening and conducting the power to each other ...
... effect on the patient . At all events , incubation was practised in those temples where the mag- netical rings were found . But those wings constituted regular chains of magnets , strengthening and conducting the power to each other ...
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... effects of the mysterious mythic circles in another manner ; if similar physical science was gained by their own experience , in such a combination things before unknown assumed a high importance , and the mysteries thus more and more ...
... effects of the mysterious mythic circles in another manner ; if similar physical science was gained by their own experience , in such a combination things before unknown assumed a high importance , and the mysteries thus more and more ...
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... effect even on the mind as an auxiliary influence in the vaticinations in the temples . That the magnet played a great part in the temples is certain . have already spoken of that magnetic stone in the form of Venus , which , by a ...
... effect even on the mind as an auxiliary influence in the vaticinations in the temples . That the magnet played a great part in the temples is certain . have already spoken of that magnetic stone in the form of Venus , which , by a ...
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