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‘What is the cause of my illusion of seeing spirits in the triangle of art? ...’

‘... I am not concerned to deny the objective reality of all ‘magical’ phenomena; if they are illusions, they are at least as real as many unquestioned facts about daily life ...’

The Lesser Key of Solomon – Goetia – The Book of Evil Spirits. Translated from ancient manuscripts in the British Museum. Edited by Dr. L. W de Laurence.

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"Now, what kind of fog moves against the wind?” Stevie Wayne, The Fog, dir. John Carpenter (1980)

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"I was born with a disfigurement where my head is made of the same material as the sun, which makes it impossible for you to look directly at me. It has always been this way.”

The Thief, Upstream Colour, 2013

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This is inhuman – it doesn't make sense

Dutch, Predator, 1987

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Predator, dir. John McTiernan, 1987

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Silver city with the golden sands. Aberdeen's buildings incorporate locally quarried grey granite, which can sparkle like silver due to its high mica contents.

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Opening scene to Rebecca, dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1940

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John Pfahl, Altered Landscapes: Triangle (Bemuda), 1975

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Oceans cover 70% of the Earth’s surface and in places are over seven miles deep. They provide over half of the oxygen that we breath and are home to more species and animals than are found on land. In spite of their importance, we still have better maps of the surface of the Moon and Venus than our own sea floor.

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Gradually, the gallery was infiltrated with consciousness. It's walls became ground, its floor a pedestal, its corners vortices, its ceiling a frozen sky. The white cube became art-in-potency, its enclosed space an alchemical medium.

Inside the White Cube, Brian O'Doherty, 1976–86

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"What you came for, a touch of magic in this world obsessed with science."

Lisle Von Rhuman, Death Becomes Her, 1992

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Phlebotinum noun an impossible or imaginary device which is used to move forward the plot of a TV show, book or film, especially in science fiction and fantasy It's science, it's magic, it's strange things unknown to science or magic. The reader does not know how Phlebotinum would work and the creators hope he or she doesn't care.

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... The weird studies of Harley Warren were well known to me, and to some extent shared by me. Of his vast collection of strange, rare books on forbidden subjects I have read all that are written in the languages of which I am master; but these are few compared with those in languages I cannot understand ... and the fiend-inspired book which brought on the end – the book which he carried in his pocket out of the world – was written in characters whose like I never saw elsewhere. Warren would never tell me just what was in that book ... H P Lovecraft, The Statement of Randolph Carter

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You'll be born again into an untroubled world. Free from anxiety, fear, hate ... Your minds and memories will be completely absorbed, everything remains intact ... don't be trapped by old concepts, you're evolving into a new race

David, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

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Francisco Goya's 'Los Caprichos: Linda maestra!' ('The Follies: Beautiful Teacher!') – witches heading to a Sabbath

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Ether bearing spirits from other worlds

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Opening scene of Powell & Pressburger's A Matter of Life & Death