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white magic

Magic that aims to foster good, either by bringing about positive outcomes or by keeping bad things from happening. Her illness has gotten worse, so I did white magic focused on restoring her health. Can you do some white magic to stop this hurricane?
See also: magic, white
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White Magic Woman is available for purchase online through the author's website, from the publisher, Amazon.com, and other online retailers.
Prosecutors claim a friend of the Frenchman said the defendant had searched the internet for tips on white magic to make the woman want him.
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Important as these rites of white magic were to the healers of Mesopotamia, the only text of this genre to enter the general scribal curriculum as known from the great scribal libraries of the first millennium was Maqlu, "Burning" (p.
-- Master new techniques like the dancer's Steps or use new black and white magic with the wise scholar, further enhancing magical capabilities
(13) In "Prospero's Book" Barbara Mowat astutely analyzes the lure of forbidden conjuration and joins those who question the validity of "white magic" in the Renaissance: can a sacerdotal Christian magus traffic with earth-spirits?
White Magic: Spells to Hold You is a young adult novel about benevolent witchcraft.
Whether the reader is an introverted bookworm like Chrissie or a teen who has been forced to grow up much too quickly, like Yvonne, White Magic certainly contains the spell to hold him/her captivated for 200 pages.
And cheering spectators gathered to watch floats snake through the town centre as part of the Dark Lights White Magic parade.
But he does reveal a timeless secret to successful white magic: ingenuity.
The largest plasma display currently available served as the focal point for the "White Magic" display recently held at New York's Cooper Hewitt Museum.
Storm also shows problematic instances of white magic, especially in In St.
White Magic, Through the Sun Door (Drag City) Mira Bilotte's voice is beautiful and the production is trippy.