Questions tagged [magic]
For questions referring to powers obtained by supernatural or spiritual means outside of science or technology. Can also be used to signify that the question contains magical elements when asking in relation to an identification question: [story-identification], [episode-identification], [character-identification] and [object-identification].
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Looking for a short story where there are murders taking place with magic
I remember that the story had to do with murders happening with magic. One was a puzzle maker another was a doll maker. Investigator is a woman and gets a lead where she needs to find a specific toy ...
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Young adult fantasy book about a girl who accidentally kills her boyfriend and decides to attend an academy for witches or magic
I recently saw an ad on Facebook for a book about a young girl who accidentally kills her boyfriend. She decides to attend an academy for witches or magic (I can't remember which). She is forced to ...
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Young adult or middle grade fantasy book from the 90s-2000s about a girl in a town or village who thinks she doesn't have magic
I'm looking for a young adult or middle grade fantasy book from the 90s-2000s.
A girl is in a town or village and she thinks she doesn't have magic. An eccentric or someone unexpected tells her she ...
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Manhwa about a saintess with disciples that had to physically obey her every command
A year ago, I read a manhwa but can't remember the name.
It was about a saintess, except no one knew she was the saintess as there was a fake saintess. I remember that the saintess had disciples that ...
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Science fantasy book regarding a student that learns everything but when tested he always fails [duplicate]
The book (or series) revolves around a young man that diligently studies under successive masters to no avail. When he has to demonstrate his skill it fails each time resulting in him moving to the ...
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Where does “anything that can be made by magic can be unmade by magic” come from?
I am trying to find the source of this quote which I remember reading somewhere, but am running into a brick wall. (Note that the phrasing might not be exact, any quote with the general gist of the ...
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Story about a soldier displaced into a fantasy world with elves and dragons
I hardly remember, but if I do recall correctly... In the beginning of the story a man, a soldier, is in a war and enters some sort of time warp by mistake. He ends up in some sort of fantasy world ...
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Anime about a dark-haired main character with chains around his heart and magical beasts inside him, set on a platform island in Japan
I remember very little of this anime, but I will share what I do know. The main character was a guy who had chains around his heart. There were magical beasts inside him.
I saw this ages ago, I'm ...
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Manga where the MC is summoned by a goddess and, as soon as he arrives, he defeats a dragon; he later arrives at a village and meets a former friend
The main character (MC) is overpowered and, throughout the manga, women who knew him from the other world come to this world to see him (they are heroes). He gets a mansion from an old queen and a ...
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Isekai manga where the mc has a writing skill
I'm looking for an isekai manga where the Main Character (MC) has some type or writing skill (kanji I think or the other Japanese writing) I don't remember if he was transportated with other people ...
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Manhwa where a witch accidently wakes up a crown prince
I'm looking for a manhwa where a witch accidently wakes up a crown prince. The crown prince had some issues with waking up or something that anyone couldn't wake him up (I read it months ago) but ...
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What was this book (time-travelling kids, an old house, a wizard, turning into animals...)
Vague-memory request time:
When I was a kid (around 1992-1996 era)...
...I remember reading a series of books (perhaps a trilogy, possibly more)...
...about these kids (3 kids, perhaps? I'm sure they ...
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In "Chosen One Protective Service", does everyone get the diagetic interface into rune magic that Rusty does?
In Andrew Seiple's Who Chooses the Chosen, first book of his Chosen One Protection Services, Rusty experiences his rune powers as a text interface of symbols that he sees in his mind's eye with exact ...
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What is the earliest instance of magic smelling like ozone?
Aside from being set in pretty cynical universes, both Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher saga and Sandy Mitchell's Ciaphas Cain stories don't have a lot in common, aside from one thing that's nearly ...
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Manga/Manhwa about a female magician who gives up her magic to birth a child with the emperor
I forgot the title of this manhwa. It's about a female lead who gives up her magic so she can have a child. She is married to the emperor, but he only married her because she was powerful. After she ...
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Manhwa with a female lead who is a shape shifter with ice powers, the male lead has fire powers
There is a female lead who is a shape shifter with ice powers. She had a younger sibling. She lives in a forest. There is male lead with fire powers. The female lead saves her little sister and that ...
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fantasy book from 2012/13, young girl with powers from poorest part of kingdom, pursued by a captain
Okay, so I read this book when I was still in primary school which was almost 10 years ago, it is a fantasy book my memory of the plot is quite foggy at this point but from what I remember the ...
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Manhwa where the female lead is a regressor with hidden healing powers
I don't fully remember the plot, but I remember a certain scene. Basically, the female lead is a regressor and has hidden healing powers. I also think she is a princess and is currently engaged to a ...
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Book series where the main character has to murder his own family to control the magic on a newly discovered world [duplicate]
This is an older fantasy series, I read it a long time ago and for the life of me can't remember the title.
The magic system is a mist that can create anything from the thoughts of the people in it. ...
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Manhwa about a noble girl who was framed by another girl [duplicate]
The girl is then reincarnated and she then has to prove herself by showing some magic with water. She was executed in the public in her early life as she was not able to prove herself.
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Very old fantasy adventure movie where the princess is captured by evil, for evil, and turned evil
Yeah, just a little generic, which is why I can't remember the title myself. I think it's from the 50s or so.
I can remember a trio of hags attack a ship and capture the princess, taking her to the ...
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Fantasy manga in which a noble lady is in a coma and her parents hire a magician who transfers a different soul into her body
The plot is that the female lead is in a coma, then the parents hire a magician, but the magician transfers a different soul into her body because that's the only option left.
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Manhwa with a saintess who died and reincarnated into a little girl
I forgot the name of this manhwa I was reading. It starts off with the female lead who is now a little girl and she meets with a man (some kind of priest or something) who was brought by her parents ...
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Fantasy manhwa where the female lead is a demon that was summoned by a human for revenge
The female lead has blonde hair and red eyes. She's a demon who was summoned by a pregnant and injured woman who was being chased by the father of the child. As the woman was dying she summoned a ...
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Dark, cynical video game taking place in the medieval ages
I saw this video game years ago (less than 10 but it may have been older than that) but never got its name. It was an RPG. The enemies looked like half-melted mutated animals but the protagonists were ...
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Young Adult Novel In which character has the ability to cause chain reactions of violence
The story in question has the protagonist(?) Start a chain reaction in a neighborhood that leads to the whole area devolving into anarchy with people killing each other. This character may or may not ...
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Book about mage/wizard boy
Read this around 2010-2012 but not sure how old the book is.
It kept switching to a different time every once in a while. Boy travels and enters a school for boys to become a mage/wizard. There was a ...
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Fantasy book series that begins with mages arriving at a small village and taking a young woman against her will to be trained
Trying to remember fantasy series that begins with mages arriving at a small village and taking a young woman against her will to be trained. She is reluctantly accompanied by her male friend who is a ...
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Fantasy YA trilogy printed in one book from the 90s with a purple cover and castle on the front
I'm looking for a book I believe I read in middle school, which would have been 1999-2002.
I wish I could recall anything about the characters other than I'm fairly certain it's told from a female POV....
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Witch paints uncle/father he disappears, traps him in painting YA book read 40 years ago
Trying to find fantasy book I read as a child, was a bit scary, sort of mild YA horror. Main thing I remember was these children had an aunt or stepmother or governess who was some kind of witch. The ...
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Fantasy book series about a lord (and maybe a lady) who rules over a world where it's eternally spring, summer, fall, etc
I am trying to recall a series of books I think I read in the 90s--fantasy novels about a lord (and maybe a lady) who rules over a world where it's eternally spring, summer, fall, etc. I believe ...
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Searching for a 90s Anime with a Dark-to-Light Princess Twist
When I was about 5 years old, I watched a show that I've often thought about and tried to remember, but I've never been able to identify it. Please bear with my ambiguous and fleeting memories.
The ...
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Magic/fae book series about a girl who finds a stone/rock and comes to some realization about its magic
There were at least 3 books. I believe told from different perspectives. There was a scene where someone is attending a girls boarding school, and the headmistress has one of the magic stones in her ...
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Book about a girl with an acorn in her eye and with that eye she can see magic in the earth
Not sure when the book came out.
It's about a girl with an acorn in her eye, but she doesn't know that until later in the book when it comes out and with that eye she can see magic in the earth. The ...
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Book about a girl with powers and her cat familiar, looking for her missing mom
I'm not sure if this the right place, but I've been trying to find this book that I read in middle school.
I remember it starts with the girl, her witch mom, and the (talking?) cat at home before the ...
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Manga about modern-day high school student who meets a girl with a sword who wears bunny ears and claims to be his fiancée
I read this manga a few years ago.
It's set in the modern day and it's about a high school student who meets a girl with a sword who wears bunny ears and claims to be his fiancée. She says that he is ...
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Book about a boy traveling to another world through a bag
Looking for a book where the main character, a boy, has a satchel/book bag made of leather maybe, and travels to another world through it. Also another entrance to the world is through this old man's ...
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Manhwa where the female lead is reincarnated as a holy spirit; spirits are ranked by numbers based on their strength, and she is the weakest
I'm not sure if this was all in my head, but I remember a manhwa with the following plot:
The female lead reincarnated as a holy spirit or something like that. These spirits are ranked by numbers ...
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Manga or manhwa where the demon lord or king is killed by the hero and goes back in time
In the beginning, the demon lord is bleeding and the hero party surrounds him and he gets stabbed by the hero and goes back in time where he is a noble and lives with his brother, father and stepmom, ...
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Manga where the Main Character has no magic but joins the magic academy using science "magic"
The main character is banished from his family for failing to join the academy at a certain age, whereas his younger sister is a magical genius, especially at fire magic, and is going to the magic ...
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Fantasy book(s) with magic powers gained from rose gold rings
So I don't have many memories from this book, and I've looked over the internet quite a few times before trying here.
The core information:
There's not a lot of magic holders in the story, and it's ...
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Manga with a female main character who is bethrothed to a prince who can't use magic
It's a manga (not a manhua/manhwa) where the main character (MC) is female. I'm not sure if it's a reincarnation manga, but I think it is, since I know the MC quickly becomes powerful in using magic ...
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Pre-90's (?) Sinbad-like fantasy movie with an invisible monster in a Roman-like arena
I'm looking for an old fantasy movie, but I need help because I don't know the title, cast names or year of release.
Here's what I remember:
I thought it was one of the Sinbad movies, but I already ...
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Webnovel in which the main character is transferred to another world as the daughter of a Duke with two sons and magical powers
I already read the webnovel until a certain point, so the story will include points from later chapters.
The main character (MC) was from the real world and loved to read many books. Then she was ...
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Fantasy series about twin boys from the 80's. One is stolen at birth by evil forces
I am looking for a book/series written in the 1980's about twin boys. One is stolen at birth by evil monster demons and is raised by them to be evil. I believe I remember that the land in this book ...
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Animated show where a girl is kidnapped by some creature after a fight with her parents
I was a kid when I saw this animated show so I don't remember it in great detail. What I can remember is that there was a girl, I think she was a child, who had a fight with her parents. After that, ...
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Do Dementors Have Magic?
Are Dementors magical creatures with inherent magical powers?
Or do their powers of despair, depression, cold, and hopelessness come from their eternally soulless existence?
Do we ever see Dementors ...
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Manga where the main character saves a village, gets killed by a church, and reincarnates into a human boy
So basically the main character just appears (not even he knows what or who he is) and goes to a village, but they catch him messing with his blood and call him a vampire and this is where he gets the ...
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YA book series about an orphan girl with violet eyes who finds out she has powers
I read this series probably 10 years ago. It has been driving me insane ever since wanting to reread it now.
It was about a girl with violet eyes whose parents had died. She thinks she's an ordinary ...
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90s or 2000s book about a young girl who somehow found she could access a magical realm
So this is a long shot, as I unfortunately don't remember many details, but I am trying to find a book I read about 20 years ago when I was a kid. I read it in my local library (in the UK) so it would ...
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