thaumaturgy

• “Two brothers and the girl they both adore for different reasons collect on their mystical inheritance -- the knowledge of the reality-bending art called "thaumaturgy" -- just in time to save the world.”

  Archive 2006-09-03

• “He deals with miracles as Renan deals with them, believing that credence in "thaumaturgy" will drop off from the human mind as credence in witchcraft has done -- that”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873

• “At the mid-day halting-ground we saw a stone-mother nursing a rock-child, which might still be utilized in lands where "thaumaturgy" is not yet obsolete.”

  The Land of Midian — Volume 1

• “There are a lot of ways of showing magic in fantasy, ranging from the point-and-zap thaumaturgy that seems to be the general procedure for Harry Potter to the uncanny, archetypal forces at work of Last Call.”

  I put on my robe and wizard hat «

• “Bruno doesn't know why he learns so quickly - "My father never quite lost his touch of aboriginal uncouthness" - but under the tutelage of an autistic janitor and a very liberal-minded cognitive psychologist named Lydia Littlemore, he emerges from his "prelapsarian nudity" and enters the world of conscious thought, "the awesome thaumaturgy of mere language.”

  The Washington Post: Review of Benjamin Hale's 'Evolution of Bruno Littlemore': Aping human love

• “This comment was originally posted on Twitter thaumaturgy said at 4pm on Nov 16th # |”

  The death of the URL | FactoryCity

• “It was also where the darkest of thaumaturgy often found a home, which was why Tranq had sent her.”

  Petrol Queen snippet

• “Did you mink you were the only ones who could make use of combat thaumaturgy?”

  Fictionaut: The Lives of Felix Gunderson

• “It doesn't understand sorcery, it doesn't understand spellsinging, it does not comprehend even the rudiments of thaumaturgy, and therefore cannot be affected by mem.”

  Fictionaut: The Lives of Felix Gunderson

• “It was thaumaturgy in Philadelphia as the New York Giants pulled off an unforgettable comeback win over their despised and frankly despicable rivals, the Philadelphia Eagles.”

  Midterm Roundup

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