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contagious magic
noun
- magic that attempts to affect a person through something once connected with them, such as a shirt once worn by the person or a footprint left in the sand; a branch of sympathetic magic based on the belief that things once in contact are in some way permanently so, however separated physically they may subsequently become. Compare imitative magic.
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The examples from this last group illustrate Frazers distinction between contagious magic and imitative magic.
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According to Frazer this may be practised by itself, whereas contagious magic as a rule presupposes the imitative.
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