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" Law of Contact or Contagion. From the first of these principles, namely the Law of Similarity, the magician infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it: from the second he infers that whatever he does to a material object will... "
The American Journal of Sociology - Page 787
edited by - 1910
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Lectures on the Early History of the Kingship

James George Frazer - Anthropology - 1905 - 360 pages
...without special reference to the exercise of that art by the early king. The principles of thought on which magic is based appear to resolve themselves...Charms based on the Law of Similarity may be called Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic. Charms based on the Law of Contact or Contagion may be called Contagious...
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The American Historical Review, Volume 11

John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1906 - 1070 pages
...infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it " ; from the law of contact " he concludes that whatever he does to a material object...contact, whether it formed part of his body or not" (p. 38). "Sympathetic magic" thus has two branches : " homoeopathic magic " and " contagious magic...
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Publication of the American Sociological Society, Volumes 4-6

American Sociological Association - Sociology - 1910 - 622 pages
...words, deeds, customs, and institutions which testify to man's belief in the superhuman, and serve to bring him into relation with it." The difference...Law of Contact or Contagion may be called Contagious Magic.* A common example of homeopathic magic is the burning or spearing of the effigy or likeness...
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A Psychological Study of Religion: Its Origin, Function, and Future

James Henry Leuba - Psychology, Religious - 1912 - 404 pages
...infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it; from the second he infers that whatever he does to a material object will affect...with whom the object was once in contact, whether it forms part of its body or not. Charms based on the Law of Similarity may be called Homoeopathic or...
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A Psychological Study of Religion: Its Origin, Function, and Future

James Henry Leuba - Psychology, Religious - 1912 - 414 pages
...infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it; from the second he infers that whatever he does to a material object will affect...with whom the object was once in contact, whether it forms part of its body or not. Charms based on the Law of Similarity may be called Homoeopathic or...
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A Psychological Study of Religion: Its Origin, Function, and Future

James Henry Leuba - Psychology, Religious - 1912 - 410 pages
...will affect equally the person with whom the object was once in contact, whether it forms part of its body or not. Charms based on the Law of Similarity may be called Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic. Charms based on the Law of Contact or Contagion may be called Contagious...
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American Anthropologist, Volume 14

Anthropology - 1912 - 856 pages
...International Congress of the History of Religions, pp. 71-78.) 352 AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST [N. s., 14, 1912 equally the person with whom the object was once in contact, whether it forms part of its body or not. Charms based on the Law of Similarity may be called Homoeopathic or...
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The Open Court, Volume 34

Paul Carus - Religion - 1920 - 884 pages
...severed. This may be called the law of contact or the law of contagion. From this law the magician infers that whatever he does to a material object will affect...part of his body or not. Charms based on the law of contact have been called contagious magic. These principles which the magician applies in his art are...
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An Encyclopaedia of Religions

Maurice Arthur Canney - Religion - 1921 - 416 pages
...infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it"; from the second "he infers that whatever he does to a material object will affect...Charms based on the Law of Similarity may be called Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic. Charms based on the Law of Contact or Contagion may be called Contagious...
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Aspects of Ancient Indian Polity

Narendra Nath Law - Administrative law - 1921 - 258 pages
...law of contact, that whatever he does to a material object affects equally the person with whom it was once in contact, whether it formed part of his body or not. In practice, the two principles are often combined.1 5. From another point of view, sympathetic magic...
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