馃嚜馃嚫 Magic in Spain
75 entries from Spain, best known first, across 38 places of magic.
Places of magic in Spain
Logro帽o 3Santiago de Compostela 3Zugarramurdi 3Anboto 1Aragon 1Aralar Range 1Arratzaren valley 1Asturias 1Ataun 1Basque Country 1Bletisama 1Burgos 1Canary Islands 1Cancho Roano 1Cueva del Tibicena 1Gorbea 1Irati Forest 1Madrid 1Mas Castellar de Pont贸s 1Murcia 1Museum of the History of Tenerife 1Numantia 1Pyrenees 1San Crist贸bal de La Laguna 1Seville 1Toledo 1Valencia 1V茅lez Blanco 1Zeanuri 1CataloniaGranadaLake of BanyolesLa VeraMallorcaN谩jeraNavarreSalamancaSan Pedro Manrique
PurposeProtectionHealingSeeing and foretellingLuck and prosperityLove and attractionCursing and harmCleansing and purificationSpeaking with spirits and the deadChange and initiationBinding and oathsPower and authorityWonder and entertainment
WhoShamansFolk healersPriests and ritual specialistsWitches, sorcerers and cunning folkDiviners and readersMediums and the possessedCeremonial magicians and alchemistsHouseholds and ordinary peopleStage magiciansScholars and sceptics
BeliefHindu and TantricBuddhistJainMuslim and SufiJewishChristianSikhZoroastrianShinto and TaoistIndigenous and shamanicAfrican and Afro-diasporicPagan and NeopaganEsoteric and occultFolk and village customSecular and stageOther traditions
馃嚠馃嚦 India and 5 moreAstrology
A divinatory practice that reads human fate through the positions of celestial bodies.Belief 路 Seeing and foretelling 路 Luck and prosperity Living
馃嚠馃嚤 Israel and 4 moreIsaac Luria讬执爪职讞指拽 讘谉 砖诇诪讛 讗砖讻谞讝讬 诇讜旨专职讬指讗
A sixteenth-century rabbi who founded modern Kabbalah through oral teachings in Safed.Text 路 Speaking with spirits and the dead 路 Change and initiation Living
馃嚠馃嚤 Israel and 5 moreTetragrammaton讬讛讜讛
The four-letter name of God in the Hebrew Bible, written as YHWH.Belief 路 Speaking with spirits and the dead Living
馃嚜馃嚫 Spain and 5 moreIbn Arabi賲丨賷賷 丕賱丿賷賳 兀亘賵 毓亘丿 丕賱賱賴 賲丨賲丿 亘賳 毓賱賷 亘賳 毓乇亘賷 丕賱丨丕鬲賲賷 丕賱胤丕卅賷
A medieval Andalusian mystic and philosopher whose teachings shaped Sufi metaphysics across the Islamic world.Text 路 Speaking with spirits and the dead 路 Change and initiation Living
馃嚜馃嚫 SpainFolklore of Spain
The oral traditions, legends, and folktales of the Iberian PeninsulaTradition 路 Wonder and entertainment Living
馃嚝馃嚪 France and 5 moreKabbalah拽址讘指旨诇指讛
An esoteric school of thought within Judaism focused on the hidden meanings of scripture and the divine.Tradition 路 Speaking with spirits and the dead 路 Change and initiation Living
馃嚞馃嚪 Greece and 5 moreBay Laurel未维蠁谓畏
An aromatic Mediterranean plant used in cooking and as a symbol of victory and purification.Substance 路 Protection 路 Cleansing and purification Living
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Tetragrammaton: Lakisletter.gif : derivative work: Filii Henoch ( talk ), Public domain, source
- Astrology: Wilfredor, CC0, source
- Isaac Luria: Louski1, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bay Laurel: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 us, source
- Ibn Arabi: Omar.Hafez, CC0, source
- Folklore of Spain: Mikipons, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kabbalah: Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla, Paulus Riccius, Leonhard Beck, Public domain, source