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Magick Matters
"Curated by James Machin, the author of Palgrave Gothic's Weird Fiction in Britain, 1880 – 1939, who details the background of these stories in the Weird tradition, identifying their use of peculiarly British preoccupations in supernatural short fiction. Immense church effigies walk at night, man find a prehistoric tribe in the Scottish Highlands, canoeing on a haunted river—these are some examples of Weird stories that are uniquely British in style and content.
Authors include Edith Nesbit (“Man-Size in a Marble”), John Buchan (“No-Man’s Land”), Algernon Blackwood (“The Willows”), E.F. Benson (“Caterpillars”), John Metcalfe (“The Bad Lands”), Eleanor Scott (“Randalls Round”), L.A. Lewis (“Lost Keep”), Arthur Machen (“N”), and Mary Butts “Mappa Mundi”).
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"The dose makes the poison," says an old adage, reminding us that substances have the potential to heal or to harm, depending on their use. Although Western medicine treats tobacco as a harmful addictive drug, it is considered medicinal by indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest. In its unadulterated form, it holds a central place in their repertoire of traditional medicines. Along with ayahuasca, tobacco forms a part of treatments designed to heal the body, stimulate the mind, and inspire the soul with visions. In Plant Teachers, anthropologist Jeremy Narby and traditional healer Rafael Chanchari Pizuri hold a cross-cultural dialogue that explores the similarities between ayahuasca and tobacco, the role of these plants in...>>
