What's the ETYMOLOGY of MAGIC?

Where does the term 'magic' come from and what was the original meaning of magic? The history of the term magic in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE.

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REFERENCES

Bremmer, J. N. (1999) ‘The Birth of the Term “Magic”’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, vol. 126, pp. 1–12.

Collins, D. (2008) Magic in the Ancient Greek World, John Wiley & Sons.

Hoad, T. F. H. F. (2003) ‘Magic’, in Hoad, T. F. (ed), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, Oxford University Press [Online].

00:00 Introduction: Origin of the term

00:51 First occurrence in classical period

01:51 Persian magos vs Greek góês

04:11 Crossing over to Latin

04:19 Via French to English

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