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  • He was equally fascinated by Jomon period (ca. 8000-300 B.C.) sacred magico-religious terracotta vessels, and created a series of them by hand in the early 1950s.

    Archaeology as Modern Art? 2009

  • Even the abridged version is packed with examples of fruits and their roles in arcane, magico-religious ceremonies and primitive beliefs.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Even the abridged version is packed with examples of fruits and their roles in arcane, magico-religious ceremonies and primitive beliefs.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Even the abridged version is packed with examples of fruits and their roles in arcane, magico-religious ceremonies and primitive beliefs.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Elemental mercury is put to magico-religious uses, most problematically the sprinkling of the element on floors of homes in Caribbean and Latino communities.

    Global anthropogenic emissions of mercury to the atmosphere 2008

  • Note 5: Even the earliest literature of "magico-religious medicine," from Egypt and Mesopotamia, reveals a large emphasis on child care and a preoccupation with the birth process itself; see Henry E. Sigerist, Primitive and Archaic Medicine, vol. 1 of A History of Medicine (Oxford, 1951), 273 and passim.

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Perfume began its life as a magico-religious symbol of transformation once confined to sacred ritual.

    Brand Sense Martin Lindstrom 2005

  • Perfume began its life as a magico-religious symbol of transformation once confined to sacred ritual.

    Brand Sense Martin Lindstrom 2005

  • The magico-religious notion of sanctity, of _mana_, appeared in the idea and notation of time.

    The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont

  • Institutionalized Sex Taboo and the magico-religious belief in Mana.

    Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family Melvin Moses Knight 1934

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