History Main / Magick

*** The PSP port of ''Tacticks'' is actually justified, considering that the entire script is in arcane English.

Magick means, in fact, magic. "Magick" is an archaick spelling, dating back to [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe Early Modern Ænglisc]] where it appeared in the worcks of poets such as Edmund Spenser. Creator/AleisterCrowley revived this spelling to add an air of archaism, distinguishing "[[ThisIsReality actual]] [[WrongContextMagic magic]]" from [[StageMagician stage shows]]. UsefulNotes/{{Wicca}}ns and other Neo-Pagans, influenced by Crowley (to varying degrees), have picked up the Crowleyan spelling. Others use newer idiosyncratick spellings like "magique" and "majik." For whatever reason, this casual approach to spelling seems to have taken off in the mass media, especially things trying to be [[DarkerAndEdgier edgy]]. The constant misspelling of "magic" has been known to drive {{Grammar Nazi}}s up the wall, but it is reckommended you [[MST3KMantra don't worry about it too much]].

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', the writers use the "magick" spelling and turned "technique" into "technick". The script even goes do far as to turn magick into a verb, referring to an enchanted object as a "magicked stone." It was tragick.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', the writers use the "magick" spelling and turned "technique" into "technick". It was tragick.

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* A title of one volume of Creator/DCComics' ''ComicBook/TheBooksOfMagic'' was ''Books Of Magick: Life During Wartime''. WordOfGod has it that this spelling was used to make it clear the series was set in a separate continuity to the ''Books Of Magic'', and not because the writer was a pretentious dumbass.

* Unlike other fantasy genre magic who is filled with shooting lightning from your hands, and casting spells with wands, Magick in the ''Comicbook/{{Hellblazer}}'' mythos (and the whole Vertigo universe) is spontaneous and invisible.. This means that although Magick is powerful, it is not flashy as seen in many fantasy genre.

--> '''Willow:''' Passion and love are more potent magicks than you think.
--> '''Xander:''' You're talking magic with a K, aren't you? Screw magic with a K.
* Comicbook/DoctorStrange occasionally refers to 'magick,' though as Master of the Mystic Arts he can usually go into more details about what he's doing.

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* Experimental filmmaker [[Creator/KennethAnger Kenneth Anger's]] ''Magick Lantern Cycle'', which consists of nine thematically connected short films.

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* [[http://www.imagemagick.org/ ImageMagick.]] (Although this might actually be closer to XtremeKoolLetterz...)
** Knowing the Web, it's more likely an equivalent of WritingAroundTrademarks: the most probable explanation is that the domain names for [=ImageMagic=] were already taken and would've cost considerable sums of money to purchase.

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* In Creator/EstherFriesner's comic fantasy books ''Literature/MajykByAccident'', ''Literature/MajykByHookOrCrook'', and ''Literature/MajykByDesign'', "Majyk" is The Force that makes "Magic" work.

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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. When Willow first goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge in "Tough Love", she breaks open a locked TomeOfEldritchLore titled ''Darkest Magick'' to get the BlackMagic firepower needed to take on a PhysicalGod.

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Note also that one specific spelling, "majic", has entirely different connotations: It's an abbreviation for Majestic 12, [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories an alleged secret organization involved in hiding the existence of aliens]].

* In the ''Literature/DianaTregarde'' novels by Creator/MercedesLackey, the heroine comments on how pretentious a foe who insists on spelling magic with a k is.

* Robert Asprin's ''Literature/MythAdventures'' series started with "magik" but later shifted towards "magic". However, Asprin was also rather lax about keeping the spelling of minor characters' names consistent, so he probably didn't much care.

-->-- '''Chapter 5''', ''Discworld/AHatFullOfSky'' %%Slightly modified to remove in-line dialog tags, though the sentences are the same.