An estimated 120,000 followers discarded traditional ritual and magic objects, were baptized, adopted the sabbath, built churches, and waited in anticipation for the white teachers who, as Harris promised, would come to teach them the Bible.
Her clay figures made a splash on the international scene in 2009, when she represented New Zealand at the Venice Biennale, suggesting a shift away from her interest in magic objects and folk beliefs towards doomed ideals and utopian dreams.
The 2016 edition is titled Magic Object, taking its inspiration from the Wunderkammer – a German word for a cabinet of curiosities.
If there is one story where Ocampo's obsessions intersect, where, in Klingenberg's description, "several of Ocampo's fantastic themes, the magic object, the prediction of the future, the idea of transformation or reincarnation, as well as the theme of the double, come together", it is in The House Made of Sugar (1959).
Is there an arch-nemesis still on the loose, or a magic object that hasn't yet been found?
If you would like to have magic, then you could try to have a magic object of some-sort instead.
In the summer of 2012 I was trying to understand how he created such perfect magic geometrical objects, where the sum of all numbers along all edges is the same.
Using magic, people, objects, and actions were equated with counterparts in the divine realm and thus were believed to affect events among the gods.
Tricks, magic, body, object, etc. Animal performances (pets only, and only welfare-compliant things).
The show's season finale saw Emma finally discover there's no place like home, but not before taking a powerful dark-magic-infused object with her when she travelled through time.
Her work is concerned with the magic in ordinary objects, but also the aesthetics of conservation and collection, as many of her images of objects from natural-history museums demonstrate.
