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Researchers study the reactions of animals observing humans performing magic tricks in order to better understand animal cognition. Using these studies, evolutionary psychologists aim to gain insights into the evolution of perception and attention by comparing responses of different species, including humans.

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Animal perception of magic

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Researchers study the reactions of animals observing humans performing magic tricks in order to better understand animal cognition. Using these studies...

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Depth perception

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Depth perception happens primarily due to stereopsis and accommodation of the eye. Depth sensation is the corresponding term for non-human animals, since...

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Sympathetic magic

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magic, also known as imitative magic, is a type of magic based on imitation or correspondence. James George Frazer coined the term "sympathetic magic"...

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Psilocybin mushroom

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Psilocybin mushrooms, commonly known as magic mushrooms or shrooms, are a polyphyletic informal group of fungi that contain psilocybin, which turns into...

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List of occult terms

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extra-sensory perception and parapsychology. The occult (from the Latin word occultus "clandestine, hidden, secret") is "knowledge of the hidden". In...

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David Abram

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tradition of phenomenology with environmental and ecological issues. He is the author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology (2010) and The Spell of the Sensuous:...

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Pet psychic

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extrasensory perception. It is the opinion of scientific skeptics that people believe in such abilities due to cognitive biases and the use of various techniques...

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Clairvoyance

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past events, and remote viewing, the perception of contemporary events happening outside the range of normal perception. Throughout history, there have been...

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History of magic

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Western magicians, the goal of magic is deemed to be personal spiritual development. The perception of magic as a form of self-development is central...

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Ars Magica

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for any liquid, with the exception of blood (which requires Animal or Corpus magic to affect); non-liquid forms of water will involve requisites (see...

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Renaissance magic

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Renaissance magic, a time marked by a blending of mystical and scientific ideas, as well as a redefinition of the perception of magic. This era saw magic evolve...

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Witchcraft

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the use of alleged supernatural powers of magic. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft. Traditionally, "witchcraft" means the use of magic or supernatural...

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Arthur Schopenhauer

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praised animal magnetism as evidence for the reality of magic in his On the Will in Nature, and went so far as to accept the division of magic into left-hand...

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List of cryptids

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Cryptids are animals that cryptozoologists believe may exist somewhere in the wild, but whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated by science...

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Chupacabra

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folklore of parts of the Americas. The name comes from the animal's reported vampirism—the chupacabra is said to attack and drink the blood of livestock...

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Anthropomorphism

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empathetically with hunted animals and better predict their movements. In religion and mythology, anthropomorphism is the perception of a divine being or beings...

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Wicca

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Wiccan Rede is a popular expression of Wiccan morality, often with respect to the ritual practice of magic. Scholars of religious studies classify Wicca...

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Nagual

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nighttime aspect of the tonalli, 'the things of the day'. Practitioners of powerful magic were normally born on days related to animals with a strong or...

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Horse symbolism

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symbolic perceptions of the horse. The horse may have occupied a key symbolic position from the very beginning, since it is the most represented animal in prehistoric...

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Yellow Magic Orchestra

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The band was named "Harry Hosono and the Yellow Magic Band" as a satire of the idyllic perception of pacific and Hawaiian music America had been obsessed...

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Witchcraft in the Middle East

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The practice of witchcraft in the Middle East has a long history. In ancient Judaism, there existed a complex relationship with magic and witchcraft, with...

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Illusory motion

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one of the most popularly known illusory motions. Akiyoshi Kitaoka Illusions of self-motion Goldstein, E. Bruce (2010). Sensation and perception (8th ed...

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Cleve Backster

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in 1973 and his paper was entitled "Evidence of Primary Perception at a Cellular Level in Plant and Animal Life". After 1973, he further experimented on...

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Invisibility

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can be classified as "invisible" to a person, animal, instrument, etc. In research on sensorial perception it has been shown that invisibility is perceived...

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Doris Day

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3, 2017. "The Films of Doris Day: recordings". Dorisday.net. Gourley, Catherine (2008). Gidgets and Women Warriors: Perceptions of Women in the 1950s and...

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Outline of thought

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the cognitive faculties of consciousness, perception, thinking, judgement, and memory. Having a mind is a characteristic of living creatures. Activities...

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