Some people refuse to visit the town, calling its residents sorcerers.
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Every year, hundreds of suspected witches and sorcerers are killed in PNG.
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Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom sends you on spell-casting scavenger hunt.
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Will young women be contacted by evil sorcerers via Candy Crush invite?
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Mysticism and hexes and sorcerers are the stuff of daily life here.
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Instead of epic battles with evil sorcerers, we have epically bad Tinder dates.
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Sorcerers can bend reality because of this clear-cut, if extremely esoteric reason.
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And then I like sorcerers because I get to use magic and be creative.
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Miller offers a more prosaic reason for why witches and sorcerers might be broke.
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Saudi citizens are encouraged to report suspected witches and sorcerers anonymously, to a hotline.
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To buy a textbook that teaches that it's a child's religious duty to kill "sorcerers"?
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These tricksters, transformers, shamans, and sorcerers construct a language of concealment and revelation, embodying dualistic forces.
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Together they adventure in a Norse-inspired world full of monsters, undead creatures, and dark sorcerers.
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There's political intrigue, an Illuminati-like mystical sex cult, and mysterious evil sorcerers pulling the strings.
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Unfortunately, there are plenty of sorcerers — and their own hired muscle — who are trying to stop them.
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You can get access to the interactive game Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom with your admission ticket.
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This too has grown more common: Ms Kakebeeke says accused sorcerers used to be dispatched quietly, at night.
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His path crossed Buddhists and crusading warriors, the Bedouin and Venetian sailors, ambassadors, monks, sorcerers, and snake charmers.
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Be careful though — according to local mystery and folklore, Squijor is a place of magic, witch doctors and sorcerers!
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The show wickedly mixed contemporary art with magical charms, sorcerers' amulets, witchy spell thingies, and other knotty cultural objects.
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There were occasional prostitution cases, and the force sometimes caught sorcerers — who can be beheaded if convicted in court.
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"The other part of the family destroys and is friends with sorcerers," Ms. Karimova wrote in a post on Instagram.
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As other factions of the court pursue him for a valuable talisman he carries, he encounters dragons, gods, sorcerers, and more.
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He tells Pangborn he has come to the conclusion that sorcerers, like Pangborn, steal magic and power that belong to them.
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The problem, Mordo says, is that there are "too many sorcerers" in this world — and thus he seeks to eliminate them.
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While searching for her and for a cure, he also has to protect her from other sorcerers looking to kill her.
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The term "magus" (plural magi) was generally applied to dream interpreters, astrologers, or sorcerers from the area of Persia (modern Iran).
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The sorcerers conduct their battles in some sort of mirror-universe, which allows them to manipulate reality in some pretty freaky ways.
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The proposed law could mean less money for the country's white sorcerers: men and women who use white magic to counter santet spells.
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It would be a few years before some conservative Christian parents wondered whether reading Harry Potter could turn their kids into evil sorcerers.
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As self-reflexive as it is, "The Sorcerers" (available on DVD from Warner Archive) has been compared to Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom" (1960).
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When a heated competition outs Danny as a fake, she learns that he and his mentor Max (Frank Langella) are not magicians, but sorcerers.
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Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom is an interactive scavenger hunt where guests can search for enchanted items and Disney villains hidden throughout the park.
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Mordo, at the end of Doctor Strange, is disenchanted by the idea of magic and sorcerers, and during his visit with Pangborn, he seems anxious.
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Locals do not believe that sorcerers or witches are inherently malign: many claim—or believe in—magical healing powers, and the ability to bring favourable weather.
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Now collected into a single volume, the story follows spies and sorcerers in 1970s Prague, holding the balance of the East and West in their hands.
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Classic Strange villains include fellow sorcerers like Baron Mordo (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor in the film), demons like Dormammu, and the Lord of Chaos, Shuma-Gorath.
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Shaver referred to these hollow-earth dwellers as the 'Deros', a race of twisted and deformed sorcerers hell-bent on meddling in human affairs above ground.
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The Soviets, supposed to be enslaved automatons, had emerged as sorcerers who conquered the mysteries of the booster rocket while American scientists were still firing duds.
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Even though it is illegal to practice black magic, authorities do little to stop families consulting sorcerers who perform ritual sacrifices to 'cure' their relatives of homosexuality.
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In the meantime you can enjoy their latest single, in which our heroines use peppy J-pop and metal to defeat a trio of corpse-bride sorcerers.
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In search of a cure for his hands, Strange travels to Tibet and meets The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton), one of the most powerful sorcerers on Earth.
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For Dr. Strange's occult adventures and battles in alternate dimensions, Mr. Ditko created foreboding expanses of abstract shapes and patterns, ruled by evil sorcerers and supernatural entities.
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As one of the most powerful sorcerers in the MCU, Doctor Strange has the Virgo-esque ability to create world-saving strategies within a matter of seconds.
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Yenn ascended from Aretuza before Geralt travels to Blaviken in Episode 1, she did not leave the Brotherhood of Sorcerers until after the events of Episode 3.
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When presidents or candidates speak in public nowadays, however, voters focus on the makeup artists and sorcerers lurking behind the curtain, murmuring stage directions and working the teleprompter.
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The first seven minutes of Doctor Strange, Marvel's first cinematic foray into its magical universe full of sorcerers, relics, and dark dimensions, are a punch in the mouth.
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Suharto, prominent politicians, top businessmen have all been rumored to seek the help of shamans and witch doctors—often rewarding the sorcerers with substantial payments for services rendered.
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Shi'i clerics found the sorcerers' use of the Islamic notions of the "world of the unseen" (Gheyb) and of genies (Jinn) as a threat to their spiritual hegemony.
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In a rusted-out post-apocalyptic city called the Hole, people live in fear of sorcerers who come to their dimension to test out their powers on humans.
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The other argument is that Agrahab isn't a real-life place...but it's also set in a world of sorcerers and magic lamps so does it have to be?
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There is a whole class of celebrity sorcerers in Indonesia—men with names like Ki Gendeng Pamungkas, Ki Kusomo, and Ki Narto, a self-proclaimed expert of the metaphysical.
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It's about small groups of medieval fantasy soldiers fighting desperately to stay alive while facing down hordes of undead and evil sorcerers, with damned few heroes to lead them.
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The bad ones are regarded as sorcerers and the good ones are responsible for keeping the peace in society and they are often doctors, astrologists, midwives and traditional Malagasy healers.
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It reminded her of the time she processed the stories of Ursula K. Le Guin and how wizards and sorcerers had names for every drop of water in the ocean!
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Better written than directed, "The Sorcerers" is at once an evocation of psychedelic fascism and a Freudian comedy with a hapless protagonist subject to subliminal prompts from two parental figures.
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Human rights groups have denounced him for threatening to behead gay people, ordering so-called sorcerers to be hunted and killed, and arresting and prosecuting journalists and supporters of the opposition.
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One of their numbers had been taken into the Lady's Tower and returned unchanged, earning him a certain amount of attention from a group of sorcerers called The Ten Who Were Taken.
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But I guess if a purple-skinned bringer of doom and destruction, literal gods, sorcerers, and a talking raccoon can all coexist in the Marvel Universe, so can the Hulk's indestructible stretchy pants.
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The hardware is from "Flash Gordon" out of "2001: A Space Odyssey," the chivalry is from Robin Hood, the heroes are from Westerns and the villains are a cross between Nazis and sorcerers.
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While AQAP has resorted to killing suspected "sorcerers," and carried out stonings of at least one man and woman accused of adultery, residents and the group's online media suggest such incidents are rare.
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He has been denounced by human rights groups for threatening to behead gay people, ordering so-called sorcerers to be hunted and killed, and arresting and prosecuting journalists and supporters of the opposition.
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Meanwhile, Yennefer becomes involved with the Council of Sorcerers, which wields immense power and sway over the various kingdoms of the Continent, and she finds herself in the midst of some major conflicts.
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That show impressed with its wide-ranging display of compositional imbroglios — wickedly mixing post-Surrealist-tinged contemporary art with magical charms, sorcerers' amulets, witchy spell thingies and other knotty and nutty quasi-cultural objects.
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A cast of fleshed-out non-player characters also makes the imaginary world feel like a warm and welcoming place to spend time, despite the presence of malevolent sorcerers, bad robots, and evil relics.
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AT A time of political crisis in South Korea, spare a thought for all the upstanding shamans, sorcerers, soothsayers, diviners, astrologers, numerologists, necromancers and fortune-tellers around Asia who risk being tarred by events.
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The notion was a favorite motif of writers throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, from the "lapland sorcerers" of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors (1594) to the "lapland witches" of John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667).
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The novel insists that to live in an age of gods and sorcerers is to know that you, a mere person, might be crushed by indifferent forces at a moment's notice, then quickly forgotten.
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Seeking the rumored Seventh Decimate — which can ostensibly quell the other six, and may turn the war's tide — the heir to the throne embarks on a grueling quest to reach a legendary sorcerers' library.
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This was not a vindication of his style and his philosophy, or the final proof that he can work his magic without an army of sorcerers, as he had at Barcelona and Bayern Munich.
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In the film, the audience learns early on from characters like the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton), Wong (Benedict Wong), and Karl Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) that sorcerers draw power from other dimensions to keep Earth safe.
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Its sprawling cinematic universe currently spans a full decade, 17 films, and 2,000 or so minutes of white men becoming demigods, iron-armored geniuses, incredible hulks, captains of America, spider-men, sorcerers supreme, and star lords.
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There is a long tradition of placing hell in the far north — pre-Christian Norse legends say that "the road to Hell lies downwards and northwards" — and of portraying the people of the north as sorcerers.
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While Kamar-Taj is presented as a diverse community of sorcerers, there's no getting away from it feeling very much like the stereotypical martial-arts dojo we've seen in so many other stories over the years.
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When Doctor Strange, Wong, and the other sorcerers bring hundreds of Marvel characters to join the battle against Thanos and his armies at the movie's end, pay close attention to Hope van Dyne's (Evangeline Lilly) big entrance.
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But where those books invent hidden spaces for their sorcerers, Killjoy's world pushes magic to the edges of society, seen and used only by tiny communities living as far to the edge of mainstream society as possible.
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Critic Matt Lees once said that Dragon's Dogma is "hobbity as all fuck," meaning that its familiar cadence of chosen ones, dragons, dukes, ogres, soldiers, forts, and sorcerers are all part and parcel of the traditional fantasy puzzle.
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The MCU's continuity has gotten more and more convoluted and interconnected over the course of more than a decade of movies, as space aliens mingle with Sorcerers Supreme and cosmic threats alter the future, the past, and time itself.
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When DIY visual effects creator Joey Shanks first saw the trailers for Marvel's very psychedelic superhero film Doctor Strange, he was immediately drawn to the the circular portals of fire that the sorcerers open up to travel between dimensions.
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But the sorcerers of Doctor Strange don't just move through a world of shifting gravitational poles; they're manipulating the environments themselves, hopping from walls to ceilings to bridges constructed out of dissected parts of other buildings as they battle it out.
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Of the 19 people with sickle-cell disease the Thomson Reuters Foundation interviewed for this story, 16 said they were called "sorcerers" and "devils" as children, abandoned by their fathers and subjected to "demystification" rituals that could have killed them.
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Desperate for a solution, he comes across a mystical "healer" in Nepal called the "Ancient One" (Tilda Swinton) who, as it turns out, leads a gaggle of sorcerers keeping the universe safe from "unseen dark forces" led by Mads Mikkelsen.
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Video: Moosha Moosha Mooshme/YouTube MicroRangers drew inspiration from a diverse range of existing gaming platforms—including cooperative board games like Pandemic and the Disney attraction Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom—and was developed with active input from the target audience.
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Before "Witchfinder General," however, Reeves directed, and partly wrote, "The Sorcerers" (1967), a seedy evocation of swinging London complete with Soho clubs and third-rate beat bands; Boris Karloff stars as the inventor of a device for inducing hypnotic trances.
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The usurpation of Nilfgaard is important because Yenn was likely still a member of the Brotherhood of Sorcerers when King Fergus was usurped; Triss Merigold was a recent Aretuza graduate when Fergus died, and she still recognizes Yenn in Episode 7.
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Should you require a reality check, you can always shift your focus from what's happening on the large upper screen — where a polished narrative unfolds in a series of animated silhouettes — to the industrious group of sorcerers gathered directly below it.
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In one of the southwestern states called Texoma, deadly gunfighter and free agent Lizbeth Rose is confronted by two Russian sorcerers who are certain she can help them find a distant relative who might be the key to saving their exiled emperor.
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This article was originally published on VICE Indonesia Indonesia's House of Representatives (DPR) proposed to outlaw dukun santet, or dark sorcerers, this past November with a highly controversial set of measures that critics call an outright bizarre attempt to legislate the supernatural.
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What ties its wildly diverse elements together is a visual style of burdened entanglement that overloads the specific intentions and functions behind contemporary art, magical charms, sorcerers' amulets, witchy spells, spiritual worldviews, psychic theories, Christian religious beliefs, African community healers, and other indigenous cultural habits.
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Doctor Strange has yet to pick up on its post-credits scene with Baron Mordo looking to slim down the number of sorcerers in the world, and the Guardians teased an adventure to reunite with Gamora (possibly with Thor at their side) at the end of Endgame.
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Mr. Wajda went on to direct more than 22009 theatrical and television films, among them narrowly focused psychological portraits like "Innocent Sorcerers" (22013) and expansive adaptations of historical novels and stories by celebrated Polish writers, like Stefan Zeromski's "The Ashes" (19393) and Stanislaw Wyspianski's "The Wedding" (19619).
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"Prior to 1500, most sorcerers were men because they were seen as powerful agents — think of Merlin — but as the ecclesiastical leaders began to think of a new form of witchcraft, it was the more powerless people whom the devil contacted to do his work," Kenney said.
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"The people who pay the [highest-tier] Sorcerers' packages at the expo are paying $2,500 to get into that event, and to be honest, 90 percent of those folks are there to get the material, hike back to their hotel rooms, and put it up on eBay," says Hill.
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In "Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768" (Harvard University Press, 1990), Mr. Kuhn examined the mass hysteria that broke out over rumors that sorcerers were roaming the country, cutting off men's braids and stealing their souls, and what this revealed about the inner functioning of the state.
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From the kids they play with on Rokely Beach, they grow used to hearing lurid stories of sorcerers and ghosts—even the horrific tale of the head-hunter—and, because the disgraceful misadventures of foreigners are the villagers' entertainment, they absorb the details of intricate scandals as well.
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" Later on in the book, Arya Stark gets a brief explanation about glamor magic too, from her mentor in the Faceless Men: "Mummers change their faces with artifice," the kindly man was saying, "and sorcerers use glamors, weaving light and shadow and desire to make illusions that trick the eye.
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Far from the Hollywood depiction of Nazi sorcerers (Indiana Jones, Wolfenstein 3D, Marvel's Hydra) or Britain's harmless-by-comparison Golden Dawn, Nazi magic and mysticism was something far more insidious: an ideology immune to logical contradiction and capable of shaping a faith-based populism rooted in the idea of a common myth and a shared destiny.
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As Thanos — the most powerful being in existence — touches down on Earth during his quest to find the six Infinity Stones and become even more powerful, the MCU's all-star cast of super soldiers, galactic bounty hunters, sorcerers, gods, Wakandans, and nerds in fancy suits must team up to stop him from wreaking havoc on the universe.
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The interviewer asked Singer about his belief in the supernatural, and Singer responded with this story: For thousands of years, he said, people used to wear woolen clothes, and when they took them off at night they saw sparks, which they must have been afraid to talk about lest they be suspected of being sorcerers and witches.
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One of the many standout works is Norberto Roland's "Incantations in the land of virgins monsters, sorcerers, and angry gods" (1999–2019), composed of assemblages of textiles incorporating patadyongs, a traditional woven textile, often muted in color, and worn by the women in the Visayas region of the Philippines against a backdrop of brightly colored floral mass-produced fabrics from China.
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