The Languages of Magic

A guide to magic as communication

FOREWORD

THE ART OF METACOMMUNICATION
By Stephen E. Flowers, Ph. D.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PRELUDE
THE MAGIC IS IN THE COMMUNICATION

1 WHAT DO LANGUAGE AND SEMIOTICS
HAVE TO DO WITH MAGIC ?

2 A SURVEY OF DIFFERENT MODELS OF MAGIC

3 A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEMIOTICS

4 VIEWING MAGIC THROUGH LINGUISTICS AND
THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE

5 LANGUAGE, MYTH, AND MAGIC

INTERLUDE
THE METHODOLOGY FOR THE CASE STUDIES

6 CASE STUDY I
MEDITERRANEAN MAGIC IN ANTIQUITY

7 CASE STUDY I I
RUNES AND SEMIURGY

8 CASE STUDY I I I
MODERN APPROACHES TO SEMIURGY

CONCLUSION

AFTERWORD
THE WORDS AIM THE ARROW
By Don Webb

APPENDIX A
WHY DO MAGICIANS WRITE FICTION?
By Don Webb

APPENDIX B
MAGIA LOCI
By Brenda Yagmin

GLOSSARY

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX