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powers developed by
adepts of
Buddhist meditation as
belonging to the "
thaumaturgical tradition".
These powers,
known as
siddhi or abhijñā, were ascribed...
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miracle worker. This
thaumaturgical power became a
theme of
loyalist propaganda. In
other countries,
attempts to
invoke a
thaumaturgical power remained very...
- "covering long
distances in the
twinkling of an eye") is the name for
thaumaturgical teleportation in the
mystical form of
Islam and
Islamic philosophy....
- with the
intent to cure them of
various diseases and conditions. The
thaumaturgic touch was most
commonly applied to
people suffering from tuberculous...
- who may have
lived in the
second century BC,
identified Pythagoras's
thaumaturgic ideas as a
result of Pherecydes's influence.
Another story,
which may...
- with
other forms of folk religion, has a
focus on the apotropaic, or
thaumaturgical, i.e. it is used to ****ist in
protecting the
individual from sickness...
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produce liquids for
drinking and for
washing that were
believed to have
thaumaturgical properties. The
Asante live in the
Ashanti Region,
specifically in the...
- "the miracle" was "a work of art fit only for a gallery, and not some
thaumaturgical object venerated in a church?"
Michael Daley wrote that the work was...
- use of the
letters by the Jews for the
formation of the Holy Name for
thaumaturgical purposes is
attested by
magic papyri that
quote an "Angelic Book of...
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planetary governments), the
Space Wizard Federation (a
federal group of
thaumaturgical aggressors), and
Changelings (an
extraterrestrial species with the ability...