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Gavin, Richard / Cram, Patricia / Schulke, Daniel
The incantation is one of the most ancient and best-known techniques of verbal magic, utilizing vocal modulation and the complex poetics of the word to conjure spirits or occult power. Other literary forms, such as the epic, koan, psalm and cipher may also participate in the arcana and power accessed by the arts of the occult. Yet fiction, largely considered entertainment -or in its 'higher' forms, philosophy- seldom transcends its secular ass...