Comparative mythology corpus

Imitative Sympathetic Magic

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

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TraditionSourcePassageConfidenceEvidenceRecord
Comparative The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) PREFACE. / J. G. FRAZER. / CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY.; lines 442-515 high Frazer defines a principle of sympathetic magic: an effect may be produced by imitating it; one example is making and destroying an image of a person to harm or kill that person. record