title: The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Penguin Psychology)
author:  Bruno Bettelheim 
description: Wicked stepmothers and beautiful princesses ...magic forests and enchanted towers ...little pigs and big bad wolves ...Fairy tales have been an integral part of childhood for hundreds of years. But what do they really mean? In this award-winning work of criticism, renowned psychoanalyst Dr Bruno Bettelheim presents a thought provoking and stimulating exploration of the best-known fairy stories. He reveals the true content of the stories and shows how children can use them to cope with their baffling emotions and anxieties.
zlib_text: The Ainigmatikos
  The Enchiridion of Enchantment
  Shri Gurudev Mahendranath
  
  2
  First Electronic Edition, 2002.
  This edition typeset by Adityanath using the LATEX Documentation System.
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  The Ainigmatikos
  The Enchiridion of Enchantment
  I
  Explained as an encounter with the preposterous, and a practical modus operandi to
  escape and overcome the enigmatic obstacles in our path, and the absurd paradoxes of
  the world and its whims.
  We are now on the threshold of a world and a situation in the future which no
  one dares to predict. Undoubtedly, the material part of all human beings is due for
  some unpleasant adventures, if not extinction. The spiritual part of every individual
  will remain unhurt