University Now Studying Magic

A UNIVERSITY IS NOW STUDYING MAGIC… SERIOUSLY 🜃https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tf4/1/16/2728.png

At University of Exeter, a new postgraduate degree is opening a door that has quietly existed for centuries—just not always inside academic walls.

An MA in Magic and Occult Sciences.

But not in the way headlines might suggest.

This isn’t about teaching spells or rituals for practice—
it’s about studying the role of magic, mysticism, and esoteric traditions across history, culture, and human belief.

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🜂 WHAT THIS REALLY IS

The program draws from disciplines like:

• history
• philosophy
• sociology
• religious studies
• archaeology

To explore how systems like astrology, folk magic, and occult traditions have shaped:

– medicine
– science
– gender dynamics
– colonial history
– and the way humans understand the unseen

Would you find this interesting? Wish they had this when I was younger.

I wonder the percentage/ratio of goth, dressed in all black and black makeup versus the preppy/normal look among participants/students..... 😀.. i would find it interesting from the philosophical side and as a control group of how certain topics are discussed and by what genre of people. but i also took a study once in mortuary sciences and that didnt work out at all as i had thought.......

I would take a class or two. Would I get a degree in magic ? No

Debi said:

Would you find this interesting? Wish they had this when I was younger.

I knew a few goth girls back in high school so i'd check it out if they attended, though if 'magic wands' were handed out to the class, i'm out lol.

Selectric said:

I knew a few goth girls back in high school so i'd check it out if they attended, though if 'magic wands' were handed out to the class, i'm out lol.

yup, thats how it always starts.... cute goth girl with a button nose, and a few too many facial piercings, but hey, whatever, shes cute....next thing i know im in a mortuary sciences class seeing a side of her that, well, was truly quite frightening...... the dream died quickly....sigh......... Dont do it man......lol

Paulm said:

yup, thats how it always starts.... cute goth girl with a button nose, and a few too many facial piercings, but hey, whatever, shes cute....next thing i know im in a mortuary sciences class seeing a side of her that, well, was truly quite frightening...... the dream died quickly....sigh......... Dont do it man......lol

Haha! Yep, trouble, trouble and more trouble lol. The mortuary class experience sounds a tad disturbing. Just never know, right?

Paulm said:

cute goth girl

The one goth girl i knew is where i got the ouija board i used a long time ago. Never used one again.

Selectric said:

The one goth girl i knew is where i got the ouija board i used a long time ago. Never used one again.

yeah, those things are dangerous, unpredictable, possibly evil, and usually only lead to trouble that can attach to you........................ but then, the ouija boards are dangerous too, but at least it has an easy "GOOD BYE"