![]() ![]() ![]() In equating each of these things with one another, magic/witchcraft with sexual beauty (as opposed to the pure, maidenly beauty of Psyche, whom nobody wants to marry or thereby enter into a sexual relationship with because her beauty is something else altogether), the novel is making a statement either about how women who are sexually beautiful have inexplicable powers- or at least that men believe this to be the case. ![]() It is important to note that all instances of witchcraft in the novel are perpetrated by women who are both sexually active and attractive, and that even in the end, when Isis’s cult is presented in an arguably more positive light, the cult of Osiris is considered to be even more profound than that of Isis. There are a number of unusual dichotomies pertaining to magic in The Golden Ass, such as day/night, male/female, prayer/spell-work, and the split between locations that magic is practiced: either in Greece or abroad. ![]()
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