Week 1: Introduction to
History of Magic

Course Professor :
Professor Jæcob Balog

 
 
 


 
 
 


 
 
 


 
 
 


 
 
 


 
 
 


 
 
 


 
 
 


 
 
 


 
 
 

LESSON NUMBER	TOPIC	SP. ASSIGNMENTS
Lesson 1	Introduction to   History of Magic	-none-
Lesson 2	Magical Beginnings	quiz
Lesson 3	The Americas	essay OR quiz
Lesson 4	Asia Pt.1 Early   Civilizations	quiz
Lesson 5	Asia Pt.2 Steppes and   China	MIDTERM EXAM
Lesson 6	Africa	-none-
Lesson 7	Ancient Europe	quiz
Lesson 8	Religion and Magic	project
Lesson 9	Famous Wizards and   Review	FINAL EXAM

Why is History
important?:

- We are living and
making it all the time.

- We need to know it to
survive.

- In the wizarding
society, if we didn’t study history, we wouldn’t know that there was a statute
set forth to separate us from the muggles or why various laws are formed.

- Wars might break out
every second and we wouldn’t know why.

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Week 2 : Magical
Beginnings

Wizards can be traced
back to the very beginnings of mankind, even during the time of the
Neanderthals.

- Rock paintings of
people in loincloths brandishing one regular arm and one long, oddly-shaped
arm.

- Australian wizards
have studied their Aboriginal ancestors and their acquisition of what looks
suspiciously like a wizard’s wand.

- Professor Milano
Sundarian of the Australian Academy for Magic has always believed that magic
was first born in the Australian outbacks.

- In the 17th century,
up north in the mountains of the Himalayas, a team of European wizards set up a
campsite, initially to observe the habitat of the Yeti, and discovered remains
of an ancient tunnel that led deep into the mountain, where it is believed that
Himalayan wizards had set up a community before abandoning it for unknown
causes. The tunnels date back to the time of the Ice Age.

There are three possible
theories of how magic started off:

• The Theory of Uno Mas


• The Theory of Hocus Pocus


• The Migration Theory

The Theory of Uno Mas : All magic began from ONE person.

- It is the most popular
theory.

- The first wizard : Uno
Mas (not his real name).

- Ancient Aramaic for The
First Magi

- The theory was
officially presented by William Marangue in “The Theory of Uno Mas””.

- Uno lived in the time
of reptiles and before cavemen. He is believed to be the father of all wizards
and witches.

- It also states that
Uno created the first wand, making himself the literal father of magic.

The Migration Theory : Magical and Muggle lived side by sides for
years of migration.

- It is believed that
wizards and witches didn’t know that they had magic.

- When the Descent of
Blizz hit, the magical beings left the muggles to create their own group of
settlers. They founded many of the wizarding cities we know today.

- Following tracks of
unknown people in 1535, Ho Mao Tseng (explorer and famous wizard
historian) found that the trails lead into non-existence and believed that most
likely they have died in the avalanche.

- In 1800’s (1803 and
1832), a group of Gringotts Curse Breakers unearthed spells,
jewelry, clothing, tools and relics of a group of early magical people.

- These early magical
people were migrating west towards France during the Descent of Blizz.

- The migration theory
claims to be the first theory to state the Natural Progression of Magic.
However, this was borrowed from The Theory of Hocus Pocus.

The Theory of Hocus
Pocus : Magic came out of
thin air, naturally.

- It focuses more on the
first known uses of magic instead of who first used magic.

- Women were able to use
magic as a form of persuasion and that came a “Natural Progression” of
magical tendencies.

- Evidence supporting
this theory is stored at Brussels Museum of Ancient Magical History and
is kept by Professor Hugo Bjorken (the Senior Curator and Magical
Anthropologist).

- It is the Birch
Bark Manuscript containing writings that support this theory.

Definition of Natural
Progression: Nature’s tendency to force habits upon men who react differently
than wizards.

Overall:

- This theory tries to
explain why we are the way we are and where we came from.

- All theories have its
goods and bads.

- Dr. Josiah Loppetstrongly disagrees with Theory of Uno Mas and wrote a book “The
Anti-Uno Mas Theory”.

- "Those who
support the claims of Uno Mas agree that we lived among the dinosaurs which
just isn't true. Besides that the claim we are all, very closely then, related
should worry even the most liberal of conservatives" (Loppet, 124).
Whereas the Theory of Uno Mas is most widely accepted among individuals,
scholars tend to believe that the Hocus Pocus theory is more suited in reality.

- Dr. Loppet agrees with
Hocus Pocus and Great Migration theories.

- He worked with
Professor Bjorken to retrieve Manuscripts from the Alps.

- Much debate between
Professor Bjorken and Madam Lilith Greenswald of the Museum of Alps
History over who gets the manuscript.

- Dr Bjorken won
them.

Week 3 : The Americans
(North and Central America)

Clovis Culture:

- In 1933 Muggle
archaeologists named the people who first came to America the
"Clovis".

- Magical historians (Utoipius
Black) had deemed these people the Kaia-Vaha.

- In 1935 at a
large wizarding history conference in Vienna, wizard-kind named these
people "The Clovis".

- This was an attempt to
bond Muggles and magical kind in our recordings of history and to minimize the
confusion in the future.

- Uses bones and ivory
for tools (use every part of the animal, eg woolly mammoths)

“The Va Oua” drawn by magical historians.

- Drawing of the Clovis
working in a cave and moving stones.

- First we can see two
birds that strongly resemble phoenixes. That's because they are phoenixes.

- It is believed by some
that the Clovis, who would have originated somewhere in modern day India or
Egypt brought these birds with them for their healing powers.

- Laying out stone work
shows early form of protective enchantment that they would use to ward off bad
spirits.

- Muggle and magical
kind live side by side and the latter was held in high esteem.

- Wizard-kind was
helpful to muggles.

- Wizard-kind hunt megafauna
(to hunt ferocious beasts)

- They would share their
big game with muggles, allowing them to survive in times, otherwise they
would’ve died.

- The Clovis were
present all throughout the Americas but died out during what was known as The
Mass Cooling. This was a climatic change that killed off many Muggle Clovis
people. While witches and wizards could use warming charms, many muggles
died of hypothermia.

- Magical historians
believe that the decline was due to a combination of a decreased availability
of megafauna, or big game, such as mastodons in the Americas, and a massive
climatic cooling that made it difficult for the non-magic peoples to survive.

- When the Clovis people
died out, some of their culture lived on in other primitive American peoples,
but it was not until the 1930s that Muggles finally gave a name to this first
culture that migrated across two vast continents.

Olmec People:

- First use of hierarchy:
witches and wizards made up the first two "classes" of society: the rulers
and the shamans. This was just above the Muggle priests, while
artisans, laborers, and farmers were even further beneath them.

- It was believed in
this time that rulers were representatives of the gods, so when a young wizard
showed their power, it seemed natural that they would be one of the next
rulers.

- The Olmec was the
first major civilisation in Mexico.

- The Olmec peoples
lived in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, where now are the
modern-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco.

- The civilisation
thrived during what is called the Mesoamerican Formative period, from about
1,500 B.C.E. to 400 B.C.E.

- From as early as 2,500
B.C.E., pre-Olmec civilisations had thrived in this area, but the Olmec did not
really come into their own until 1,600 B.C.E. to 1,500 B.C.E.

- When young people
accidentally showed their magic, it was seen as a direct act by the gods
to acknowledge them as the next ruler : widely believed to be divine
intervention.

- The witches and
wizards of the Olmec had a love of jade, obsidian, and magnetite luxury goods.

- Used to enhance their
power with the help of natural substances.

- Creation of Olmec
People (Muggle-Magic Collaboration) :

 > The
Great Pyramid (located in the pre-Columbian
(or pre-historical American), archaeological site of La Venta, in
Tobasco Mexico)

 >
Artifacts of the Olmec people are their Colossal Heads(La Venta, or at
the Villahermosa Magical Excavation Museum).

So What happened to
Olmec People?

- Between 400 B.C.E. and
350 B.C.E., the Olmec civilisation faded.

- Due to environmental
reasons, but many magical historians are of the belief that the magic and
non-magic peoples of the Olmec ceased to exist together as peacefully as they
had before.

- Non-magic peoples
choosing to branch out and live separate from the ruling and shaman classes

- But they were
over-reliant on magical help in ever aspect of lifes, they found themselves
woefully unprepared.

- The magic peoples,
likely insulted by the insinuation that their peers no longer wanted their
help, had moved on by the time that the Muggles changed their minds, and the
Olmec society fell apart, their decline sped up by the environmental changes
that Muggle science says is the main reason behind the Olmec decline.

Maya People:

- Mesoamerican people

- Around same time as
Olmec.

- Lived in Central
America and Southern region (modern day Mexico)

- Early (2,000 BCE to
1,000 BCE) and Middle (1,000 BCE to 400 BCE) Pre-classical Maya

- First people to form
village-oriented lifestyles.

- Used jade and obsidian
for first form of divination

- Magical Historian Professor
Anne Barkum believed that Maya were the first diviners.

- Integrated with
magical kind as well.

- had writing system,
language and entire sociology.

Early Pre-classic
period:

- Mayan began to change
lifestyle from hunter-gatherer nomadic to agricultural village societies.

- Due to magic people in
Mayan culture (found more profitable to plant food than chase it).

- Wizard beings used
their magic to assist in farming and benefitted by getting extra ingredients in
their potions.

- Can’t do properly when
people constantly moving from place to place.

Trades: Between Mayan
and Olmec.

- Both had written system
based on phonetics rather than symbols.

Middle Pre-class period:

- Society more complex
(developed roots in community rather than moving)

- Luxury goods for
elites appear (jade mosaics, obsidian mirrors).

- Divination and
fortune-telling takes place.

- Maya heavily
influenced by Olmec.

Architecture of Mayan:

- Temples and Pyramids
were remodelled every 52 years.

- Magical Historians
believed that the magic-beings initiated the idea because 52 = 5+2=7.

- Seven is an important
number in magic.

Astronomy:

- Influences potions
which Mayans experimented.

- The influence of
ancient witches and wizards gave primitive Muggles insight into the importance
of such cycles.

Week 4 : Early Magical
Communities: Asia

Mesopotamia:

- One of the earliest
civilization.

- “Cradle of
Civilization” or “The Fertile Crescent”

- Green: “The Land
Between Rivers”

- Positioned between the
Tigris and Euphrates.

- Focus on Sumer,
located south of Akkad. (of(first to create potions, and some healing potions
and defensive potions in the world)

- Strong potions were so
wild and potent, when archaeologist found an amulet tained with the magic,
(several thousand years later), they ended up in St. Mungo’s for over three
months.

- People at that time
were very strong and unforgiving.

- Modern say potion is
much more controlled and diluted.

- Magic was an important
factor in Sumerian culture.

- Magic was a sign of
godliness.

- They often worshiped
those they saw using magic as gods, when in reality most of them were wizards
and witches.

- Epic of Gilgamesh was the fifth king of Uruk and is often
described as two-thirds god, one-third man. He was in fact a wizard.

- Archaeologist and
Potioneer Akim Malaam found the remnants of some very weak immortality
potion that is currently being studied by Mr. Malaam at the Iraqi Institute
of Potioneering and Magical Medicine.

- Gilgamesh is also said
to have fought a beast known as the Huwawa (or as your book inaccurately
calls it the Humbaba). This beast can now, with some certainty, be known as the
Hungarian Horntail Primari.

- Ja'mam Biba,
who was a Muggle woman living in Babylon, wrote what is known as the Letter
of Severance (where several of her teeth were pulled from her mouth and her
eyes were gauged out of her head by a man who never touched her).

- This act lead to the
creation of the Hammurabi Code (eye for eye, tooth for tooth)

- At the same time mass
murder of many magical people in Akkad and Babylon was commonplace.
Whereas those to the south revered their magical brothers as seers and mystics
and heroes, those to the north feared and killed them.

Phoenicia:

- Phoenicia is the
culture that came up with the Proto-Canaanite Alphabet.

- Phoenicians used
magical woods in many of their boats, as they were a well known maritime
power, and traders. Their boats were protected by charms and enhanced by
these magical wood (without them knowing).

- In Egypt spells were
found that dated back to Byblos (a Phoenician city), one such spell was
one that read "rir-rir or wal lat ick nur geg".

- This spell's
introduction suggests it would have done something similar to Vipera
Evanesca (snake banishing).

- It is doubtful that
the Phoenicians ever created wands, suggesting that these spells were meant to
be performed wandlessly.

- The spells were
formulated by priests in Byblos, but appeared in Egypt a few decades later,
suggesting interaction between the two magical communities.

Indus River Valley:

- The Indus were a
highly magical group of people (almost 80% of their artifacts hold some sort of
magical powers).

- While at and around
this time we see magic in much more sporadic and wild forms, the magic of those
in this area seemed concentrated and well tuned.

- Professor Quilmane
bought a bracelet enchanted with a primitive cheering charm.

- In this time the caste
system was just starting and those with magical abilities often found
themselves on the top most tiers(A group of magical priests or Brahmin known
as the B'ha-Rahi Brotherhood) .

- These brothers
protected the villagers from the Lahoo Vampires for decades.

Lahsun, a Chieftain of the B'ha-Rahi, most well known
as "The Divine One", is known for his extreme disdain for vampire
kind.

- He fought and killed
many of the vampires and taught the villagers ways to protect themselves,
including the use of garlic, and wooden stakes.

- Lahsun considered
himself to be a god but he was indeed a wizard, and perhaps one of the earliest
great wizards of this area.

 

 

 

 

 

Details are very important for this class. You need to take care to notice what you might think "just little things". MAKE FLASH CARDS