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Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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My research into shamanism and its attendant symbols and mythology, some of it included of my 2006 book Healing Songs, convinced me that women played the decisive role in the formation and dissemination of magic and ritual in early human societies—a role that was later suppressed and displaced, in the West, by an Orphic-Pythagorean worldview. In a pecul…

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