Magic as a Form of Entertainment

Introduction

Magic is an art based on the belief in the existence of supernatural beings or powers and natural laws hidden to act on the material world through specific rituals. The mode of knowledge of magic and how it implements opposed to scientific reasoning. In early days, magic was forbidden and was considered as a sin. People were not able to comprehend how magic works, which is the reason they used to banish or punish the people who did magic. The changes in scientific knowledge, which provide explanations to phenomena such as lightning, the movements of planets, or chemical reactions, have progressively reduced the belief in magic. However, in present day, Magic is known as the form of entertainment.

History of Magic

The magic is a set of rituals whose aim is to control the attributes of the universal spirit , supernatural entities. The knowledge of magic allows direct communication ( evocation ) or indirectly ( invocation ) with one or more deities or forces that have powers over the laws of nature. The spirits summoned during the ritual are required to meet the demands of the magician, as long as it knows their name or their attributes, or, equivalently, are represented the lines that describe them. The lines are equivalent in this case the statement of names, pronounce his name or 'write' are one and the same thing and therefore have the same effect (Taylor, 34). Basically, magic is the practice in the transaction between humans and these powers to dominate in their favor.

The practice of magic is not without an attitude that permeates the mind and transcends all areas of life of the individual practice. The earliest written sources of magic go back to the time of the Mesopotamian, Sumerian and Egyptian civilizations. From the Stone Age relics were like cave paintings, artifacts or stone circles, the megalithic cultures discovered the magic as a tool for implementation. Similarly, far-reaching the magical- mythological traditions have arisen in particular the Nordic-European, Roman, and Greek and Hebrew cultures. A first peak of rational discussion began with magical practices in ancient Greece. The Federation of the Pythagoreans was preparing the ground for this. Thinkers like Plato and Aristotle subjected theory, and ancient Greek theology to the ethics into philosophical contemplation. In medieval literature and the magic comes from several places. "Silk" is the expression for Norron magic. This includes the magic attack on one person and fortune telling. The term is subject to certain mythological ideas about reason and it is integrated into a larger religious system, which was widespread in the sub-arctic cultures (King, 67). Therefore, the magic of Seiðkona (Sorceress) and seiðrmenn (magician) and the Siberian shamanism is closely related.

Astrology was also considered as the form of magic. The astrology was the Christians' art throughout the Middle Ages. It flourished in the High Middle Ages, when Arabic and Greek works on astronomy and astrology were generally available. During the Renaissance, the court astrologers practiced a great effect on the ...