Last lecture Todays class

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Last lecture Todays class

• Talismans and amulets
• Stones, mirrors
• Dolls and effigy
• Sacrificed for crops
• Crosses and icons
• How icons are used
• Relics
• Material not in Ryan ritual towels and Easter
  eggs

• Animism
• Videos about icon and water materia magica
• Easter egg video
• Material magica
• Magic texts and text amulets
• Number magic

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Survey results 1. At what age do children start
celebrating Valentines Day? Kindergarten 88
1st grade 8 Middle school 4 They dont
do this in school anymore 0 2. At age do
children stop giving cards to everyone in the
class? 1st grade 0 5th grade 42 6th
grade 58 they dont give cards at any
age 0 3. At what age do people start
sending cards only to a few special
someones? Pre-teen 24 Teen 44 High-s
chool 28 College 4 4. Is it
acceptable for women to send cards to
men? Yes 100 No 0
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5. Is it acceptable to send cards to more than
one person? Yes 100 No 0 6. What do
you do for Valentines Day now that you are in
college? Send a card 17 Give
chocolate 4 Give flowers 4 Go to
dinner 8 Other (this can mean more than one
of the above) 67 7. If you are in a
relationship, who takes the initiative on
Valentines Day? Man 42 Woman 0 Either
58 8. Not in a relationship, who takes
the initiative on Valentines Day? Man 32 Wo
man 0 Either 68. 9. Woman in a
relationship can take her boyfriend out to
dinner? Yes 88 No 12
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10. On Valentines Day, is it acceptable for a
woman in a relationship to send her boyfriend a
card? Yes 100 No 0 11. On
Valentines Day, is it acceptable for a woman in
a relationship to buy her boyfriend flowers? Yes
60 No 40 12. On Valentines Day,
is it acceptable for a woman in a relationship to
buy her boyfriend underwear? Yes 88 No
12 13. On Valentines Day, a woman who is not
in a relationship, may send the man she is
interested in flowers? Yes 56 No 44
14. On Valentines Day, a woman who is not in a
relationship, may send the man she is interested
in a card Yes 96 No 4
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15. On Valentines Day, a woman who is not in a
relationship, may take the man she is interested
in to dinner? Yes 92 No 8 16. My
parents still celebrate Valentines
Day Yes 80 No 20 18. Parents should
give cards to children for Valentines Day Yes
88 No 12 19. Children should give
cards to parents for Valentines Day Yes
64 No 36 20. You can make someone
love you by giving him or her chocolate Yes 2
4 No 76
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21. You can make someone love you by giving him
or her flowers Yes 24 No 76 22.
You can make someone love you by burning a love
candle with a piece of your intendeds clothing
or hair attached Yes 16 No 84 23.
You can dissuade a person you want to break up
with by burning a love candle with a piece of
that persons clothing or hair attached Yes 8
No 92 24. You can make someone love you
by showing him or her a really good time on
Valentines Day. Yes 44 No 56
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Review finding a cause, responsible party

• Treating icon as a living thing giving it
  presents, punishing it
• Animism
• American animism examples
• Finding cause and/or guilty party and the issue
  of control, esp. in areas where control is hard
  to come by
• Film Little Murders terror of randomness