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  Magic in Ancient Greece: The History and Legacy of the Religious Rituals Practiced by the Greeks , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 78min

  Magic today is the stuff of fairy tales and illusionists, something to titillate and perplex perhaps. But the prospect of taking magic seriously - despite the best efforts of occult movements in recent years, from the O.T.O. to the Chaos magicians in the 1980s - is still a very difficult pill for most people to swallow in the 21st century. This is not to disparage nor denigrate the efforts made by illusionists such as Penn & Teller or Derren Brown, who openly declare that what they do is to perform tricks, utilizing psychology and misdirection in order to entertain a willing crowd. These "magical practitioners" are artists well deserving of the name. In this case, taking magic seriously meant to actually believe in magic and take it at its word, outlined best in Owen Davies' summary of the anthropologist Max Weber's thoughts on the matter: "[Magic] promised to give humans control over a natural world governed by spirits." This view of Weber's could be (and has been) seen as some kind of definition of what "magic" is, or at least what it was to the ancient Greeks. Many scholars have tried and failed to isolate a clear definition of what "magic" is or was. Magic - as opposed to religion, personal or otherwise - is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down. In ancient Greece, "magic was not distinct from religion, rather an unwelcome, improper expression of it." In other words, it's important not to think of it as a different definition of magic but to instead understand how the ancient Greeks believed certain aspects of magic functioned in their world. Since there are no surviving accounts of any full, contemporary hypothesis of what magic was, creating a picture of their belief in magic requires exploring what cultural factors shaped their beliefs. Often, the best surviving evidence of those beliefs comes from magic's biggest critics. Most sources hail from the Archaic and Classical Periods of ancient Greece. It is in the Archaic Perio ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ken Teutsch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/074165/bk_acx0_074165_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Extremely Rough Erotica , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 85min, (USK 18)

  Extremely rough erotica stories can shock you just as much as they titillate, and here at Naughty Daydreams Press, we know they’re not for everybody. If you’re one of those listeners who can understand the difference between fantasy and reality, you’re going to love this collection! Right Here and Right Now: A Rough and Reluctant Blackmail Sex Erotic Short by Veronica HalsteadHillary’s day isn’t going well at all. Her next door neighbor sees her having sex with her carpenter, and she’s so flustered she doesn’t get a chance to tell her carpenter no, and she has her first anal sex, and it’s very rough and very hard! She’s barely recovering when the neighbor names his price for silence. He gets a blowjob or her husband finds out about the affair. She’s got no choice, and she ends up on her knees, but the neighbor isn’t interested in what she can give but what he can take from this cheating slut wife. Hillary has her first deep throat, and by deep, we mean all the way in!Kidnapped and Hogtied (A rough bondage sex short) by Tracy BondTaylor was simply trying to get work done. She didn’t expect her master to arrive at her office, force her to leave, put a hood over her head, and take her to some sort of a garage. She especially didn’t expect to be naked on a concrete floor and bound so she couldn’t move at all! She’s utterly helpless and at Aaron’s mercy and she can’t imagine anything she’d rather be doing.Something Borrowed, Something Bruised: A Bridal Gangbang Short by Stacy ReinhardtThe blushing bride is willing to do her duty to her family by agreeing to an arranged marriage, but that doesn’t mean she can’t have one last fun night with her girlfriends. The fun night goes crazy though, and instead of getting drunk and maybe having a nice one night stand, she had three girls get her excited just in time for three men to come in and take every on ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angie Hall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/224887/bk_acx0_224887_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Oakland Noir: The Akashic Noir Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 482min

  Brand-new stories by: Nick Petrulakis, Kim Addonizio, Keenan Norris, Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder, Katie Gilmartin, Dorothy Lazard, Harry Louis Williams II, Carolyn Alexander, Phil Canalin, Judy Juanita, Jamie DeWolf, Nayomi Munaweera, Mahmud Rahman, Tom McElravey, Joe Loya, and Eddie Muller. In the wake of San Francisco Noir, Los Angeles Noir, and Orange County Noir - all popular volumes in the Akashic Noir Series - comes the latest California installment, Oakland Noir. Masterfully curated by Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller, the "Czar of Noir", this volume will shock, titillate, provoke, and entertain. The diverse cast of talented contributors will not disappoint. From the introduction: Jerry Thompson: "Discovering the wang-dang-doodle jams of the Pointer Sisters shifted my entire focus. Stunning black women were scatting and bebopping all the way into my soul. I think what we've put together in Oakland Noir is a volume where this city is a character in every story. He's a slick brother strutting over a bacon-grease bass line and tambourine duet. She's a white chick with a bucket of hot muffins heading to farmer and flea markets, to sell crafts and get hooked up with some fine kat with dreadlocks and a criminal record. And it's in the faces of young fearless muthaf - kers pounding keyboards and snapping fingers, lips, Snapchats, and Facebook timelines. It's the core of not only Black Lives Matter but all lives matter. We are the children of fantasy and of the funk." Eddie Muller: "These days, writers and [listeners] aren't denying the darker parts of our existence as much as they used to, especially in crime fiction. Some writers just do it for fun because it's become the fashionable way to get published. You know, 'gritty violence' and all that bullshit. The genuine darkness in noir stories comes from two places - the cruelty of the world's innate indifference and the cruelty that people foster within th ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Traber Burns, Keith Szarabajka, Adenrele Ojo, Hillary Huber, Carrington MacDuffie, Kirby Heyborne, Priya Ayyar, Scott Brick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009840/bk_blak_009840_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Orchestermusik,Vol.2

  "He's not a composer for whom depths are there to be plumbed. Rather, he's a spinner of tunes and character, served up in ingratiating orchestrations that exist to please and titillate. It's nearly..." (MusicWeb International, October 2020)

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