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MAGIC CIRCLE 🇨🇦

The Tamworth Central ON 🇨🇦 fork of Crafting Magic features a series of sites – “magic circles” – wherein magic may be crafted.

Each sect will choose one magic circle to perform within – 23-24th July 2025

Once a magic circle has been selecrted, you cult can then – in character – craft magic (link to final page).

What is a Magic Circle?

First coined by the Dutch historian Johann Huizinga (1955), the magic circle delineates the boundaries of the game from reality. Within it, unique rules apply that allow the game to take place.

Crichton, J. A. (2019). “The Magic Circle: Gaming and Postmodernity.” Jung Journal 13(4): 35-52:  37.

LARP itself produces a ritually enacted space in which players are bound for the duration of the event.

Buckley, C. G. (2020). Encountering Weird Objects: Lovecraft, LARP, and Speculative Philosophy. Diseases of the Head: Essays on the Horrors of Speculative Philosophy. M. Rosen. New York, Punctum Books: 382.

Within these spaces, the rules apply; outside they do not. The magic circle, however, is a psychological space first and a physical space second.

Crichton, J. A. (2019). “The Magic Circle: Gaming and Postmodernity.” Jung Journal 13(4): 35-52: 38

 

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