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Option 1

Article title: Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
Article Evaluation: Article has a lack of images. Only three sources is not too reliable. The definition for Shamanism is two sentences, could be expanded on, as well as the synopsis too. There is not too much content, and included a ton about the background of the book, but little about the actual book. What it talks about, is neutral though.
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Ellis Davidson, H.R. (1964). Gods and Myths of Northern Europe. London

Penguin.
Hutton, Ronald (2001). Shamans: Siberian Spirituality and the Western Imagination. London and New York: Hambledon and London. ISBN 978-1-85285-324-2.
Price, Neil (2002). The Viking Way: Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandinavia. Uppsala: Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University. ISBN 91-506-1626-9.

Option 2

Article title: Magic (supernatural)
Article Evaluation: Article includes a wide variety of content, the article is as neutral is it can be, adding links to external or internal cites as much as possible. There are over 250 citations, so the sources and citations are good. There is a ton happening in the talk page, making this article a solid source.
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Bailey, Michael D. (2006). "The Meanings of Magic". Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft. 1 (1)

1–23. doi:10.1353/mrw.0.0052.
Bailey, Michael D. (2018). Magic: The Basics. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-80961-1.
Bremmer, Jan N. (2002). "The Birth of the Term Magic". In Jan N. Bremmer; Jan R. Veenstra (eds.). The Metamorphosis of Magic from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. Leuven: Peeters. pp. 1–2. ISBN 9789042912274.
Bogdan, Henrik (2012). "Introduction: Modern Western Magic". Aries. 12 (1): 1–16. doi:10.1163/147783512X614812.
Cunningham, Graham (1999). Religion and Magic: Approaches and Theories. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748610136.
Davies, Owen (2012). Magic: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199588022.
Flint, Valerie I. J. (1991). The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691031651.
Freud, Sigmund; Strachey, James (1950). Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics (Repint ed.). New York: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 978-0393001433.
Gordon, Richard (1999). "Imagining Greek and Roman Magic". In Bengt Ankarloo; Stuart Clark (eds.). The Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe. 2: Ancient Greece and Rome. London: Athlone Press. pp. 159–275. ISBN 978-0485890020.
Graham, Elizabeth (2018). "Do You Believe in Magic?". Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief. 14 (2): 255–257. doi:10.1080/17432200.2018.1443843. S2CID 195037024.
Hanegraaff, Wouter J. (2006). "Magic I: Introduction". In Wouter J. Hanegraaff (ed.). Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism. Brill. pp. 716–719. ISBN 9789004152311.
Hanegraaff, Wouter J. (2006b). "Magic V: 18th-20th Century". In Wouter J. Hanegraaff (ed.). Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism. Brill. pp. 738–744. ISBN 978-9004152311.
Hanegraaff, Wouter (2012). Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521196215.
Hutton, Ronald (2003). Witches, Druids and King Arthur. London and New York: Hambledon and London. ISBN 9781852853976.
Jolly, Karen Louise (1996). Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0807845653.
Kieckhefer, Richard (2000). Magic in the Middle Ages (2nd ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521785761.
Mair, Victor H. (2015). "Old Sinitic *Mᵞag, Old Persian Maguš, and English "Magician"". Early China. 15: 27–47. doi:10.1017/S0362502800004995. ISSN 0362-5028.
Mauss, Marcel; Bain, Robert; Pocock, D. F. (2007). A General Theory of Magic (Reprint ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415253963.
Otto, Berndt-Christian; Stausberg, Michael (2013). Defining Magic: A Reader. Durham: Equinox. ISBN 9781908049803.
Styers, Randall (2004). Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World. London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195169416.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja (1991). Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of Rationality (Reprint ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521376310.
Sasson, Jack M. (1995). Civilizations of the ancient Near East. Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-19722-7.

Option 3

Article title: Demon
Article Evaluation: The article includes a ton of great images, categories in the content, and citations to help prove the validity of the article. It was also pretty unbiased with a strong introductory lead. The talk page also has a lot of conversations about the article being modified.
Sources

Freud, Sigmund (1950). Totem and Taboo:Some Points of Agreement between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics. Translated by Strachey. New York

W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-00143-3.
Wundt, W. (1906). Mythus und Religion, Teil II (Völkerpsychologie, Band II). Leipzig.
Castaneda, Carlos (1998). The Active Side of Infinity. HarperCollins NY ISBN 978-0-06-019220-4
Hughes, Thomas Patrick (1995). Dictionary of Islam. Asian Educational Services. ISBN 978-8-120-60672-2.

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