Subjective Experience and the Practice of Medieval Ritual Magic
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft June 1, 2012 Frank Klaassen
Following the suggested lead of Robert Mathiesen, and relying conceptually on the ethnographic work by Tanya Luhrmann, this article looks at what we know about the practice of modern magic and various forms of psychological or cognitive conditioning, seeking to apply it to an analysis of medieval ritual magic and reports about its operation. Beginning with a classroom experiment on dream...