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Maori Magic
The magic practiced by the Maoris of New Zealand.
The Maori priests, or Tohungas, are very like spiritualist mediums in many ways acting as a bridge between this world and the world of the dead.
The Tohungas are usually trained from early childhood, being presented for this training by their parents. Through years of prayer, fasting, chanting, and meditation, they acquire a "power" for prophecy and spirit communication.
Maori magic is almost extinct today. Many Tohunga declined to pass on their oral traditions after the Tohunga Suppression Act of 1907 was enforced in New Zealand. Until the Act was repealed in 1962, much of Maori magic, rituals and traditions had been either corrupted or lost.
See Ancient Maori Cosmologies from the Wairarapa, Beginner's Maori, Fairy Folk Tales of the Maori, Iconography of New Zealand Maori Religion, Land of the Long White Cloud: Maori Myths, Tales and Legends, Magical Arrows: The Maori, the Greeks, and the Folklore of the Universe (New Directions in Anthropological Writing), The Astronomical Knowledge of the Maori, Genuine and Empirical/Bound With 'The Maori Division of Time', The Bone People, Agrippa, Diviner, Divination, Wizard, Pythagoras, Witchcraft, Diviner, Witch, Warlock, Alchemy, Paracelsus, Devil, Kabbalism, Numerology, Alchemy, Magic, Satan, Casting Black Magic Spells, Commanding Spirits, The Tarot Store, The Chakra Store, Divination & Scrying Tools and Supplies, and The Pyramid Collection.
Sources: (1) Spence, Lewis, An Encyclopedia of Occultism, Carol Publishing Group; (2) Pickering, David, Cassell Dictionary of Witchcraft, Cassell Academic; (3) The Encyclopaedia Britannica Eleventh Edition Handy Volume Edition, Oxford University Press.
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