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Gardening, religion and the magic of sex

by Rod MacKenzie 29 June 201530 June 2015

I shove my filthy hands into the soil and claw out roots and weeds, savouring the mess. A waft of mulch, half-dead weeds, decomposed worms and God knows what sweetens the air. Soon this muddle will be in order: scooped out flowerbeds surrounded by clipped squares of lawn which I will lay down on this […]

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Semantic sorcery: Using words to bewitch, conjure and transfigure

by Candice Holdsworth 17 April 201423 April 2014

For 21 years the writer Alan Moore has been a practicing magician. He says in this interview  that on his fortieth birthday, “rather than bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a mid-life crisis, I decided it might be more interesting to terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be […]

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Cinematic African magic: Cisse’s ‘Yeelen’ at iMPAC short-film festival

by Bert Olivier 7 October 2013

In a discussion of African beliefs in magic, Ryszard Kapuscinski (in The Shadow of the Sun, 2002) describes the strange nocturnal behaviour of a group of men, carrying someone on a stretcher on the outskirts of a village where he and his guide were spending the night, dashing furtively from shrub to shrub instead of […]

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