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Magic in fiction is the endowment of characters or objects in works of fiction or fantasy with powers that do not naturally occur in the real world. Magic often serves as a plot device and has long been a component of fiction, since writing was invented.
Magic in fiction is the endowment of characters or objects in works of fiction or fantasy with powers that do not naturally occur in the real world. Magic often serves as a plot device and has long been a component of fiction, since writing was invented.
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Magic realism or magical realism is a style or genre of fiction and art that presents a realistic view of the world while incorporating magical elements, often blurring the lines between fantasy and reality.
Figure 1. A number of mentions of an author in the Wikipedia article on magic realism for each language. Four languages do not have any mention of authors. Download. Figure 2. For each author, the number of times they are mentioned across all Wikipedia articles. The authors with more than five mentions are plotted.
- Nature-Based Magic. The first type of magic system is also the most common. Though often parsed out into their own ecosystems, nature-based magic systems are those which manipulate the forces and elements of nature.
- Divination Magic. To put it plainly, divination magic is that which gains the user (or divines) insight into the unknown across time and space, such as the future, past, or across great distances and even dimensions.
- Conjuring Magic. Systems that summon nouns (people, places, or things) to the mage’s location, or into existence, are conjuring magics. From Mage Hand to Find Familiar, conjuration is more than the mere teleportation of objects (though hopping through time and space is hella rad).
- Psychic Magic. Magic of the mind, psychic magic systems harness the spellcaster’s mental abilities to affect worlds within the human, and non-human, psyche.
This category is for stories, characters, concepts and other things related to creative works of fiction. Do not include things related to folklore , mythology and religion . For more information, see Magic in fiction .
A common motif in fiction is that the ability to use magic is innate and often rare, or gained through a large amount of study and practice. [3] : 616 In J. R. R. Tolkien 's Middle-earth , it is mostly limited to non-humans, such as the Istari (more commonly known as wizards), or elves crafting magical items.
