Assignment: Anthropology Research
Length: 1500 words.
Materia Magica are the tools used by our practitioners, priests and shamans. These can include, but are not limited to:
1. Talismans: an item, often hand-held or small, believed to have magical or protective properties, often very personal and can be secular. A "good luck charm"
2. Wands: a magical item used to "activate" the spirit world or power, or mark out a sacred space
3. Amulets: an item, often worn, believed to offer magical protection, often sacred in nature.
4. Cult images: an object of worship or veneration.
5. Apotropaic items: a "frightening" image believed to "scare" away illness-causing spirits
6. Votive Offering: a gift given the spirit world that is destroyed in some way to magically send it there- candles. the cow in the Hmong film.
7. Rattles and musical instruments: used to make rhythmic noise to assist in trancing or having an apotropaic use.
8. Plants: can be used to induce trance and other pharmacopeia, and may have a medicinal impact
Discuss a bit about the differences and similarities between Materia Magica (magical implements) and Materia Medica (medical tools) ... and there they can cross over.
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