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	Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic. § 1. The Principles of Magic. Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough
		In short, magic is a spurious system of natural law as well as a fallacious guide of conduct; it is a false science as well as an abortive art.
		Homoeopathic magic is founded on the association of ideas by similarity: contagious magic is founded on the association of ideas by contiguity.
		Homoeopathic magic commits the mistake of assuming that things which resemble each other are the same: contagious magic commits the mistake of assuming that things which have once been in contact with each other are always in contact.
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	Magical thinking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to Frazer, magical thinking depends on two laws: the law of similarity (an effect resembles its cause), and the law of contagion (things which were once in physical contact maintain a connection even after physical contact has been broken).
		Magical thinking is often intensified in mental illnesses such as obsessive-compulsive disorder or clinical depression.
		Magical thinking is especially common in children, which is consistent with the explanation that it represents the uncritical recognition of patterns, since critical thinking develops later than the ability to recognize patterns.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magical_thinking (2164 words)

	Magic (paranormal) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		These magical forces are said to exist in addition to and alongside the four known forces of nature: (A solemn and dignified feeling) gravity, (The branch of physics concerned with electromagnetic phenomena) electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force.
		Magical beliefs and practices are common in many (A particular society at a particular time and place) cultures and (A strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny) religions.
		When these religions' views of magic were later applied to the beliefs of other religions, this had the effect of vilifying tribal (In societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds; practices sorcery for healing or divination) shamans and other practitioners of magic.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/magic_(paranormal).htm (4648 words)

	Magic (paranormal)
		Magic (also called magick to distinguish it from stage magic) is a way of influencing the world through supernatural, mystical, or paranormal means.
		The motivation of much scientific enquiry is similar to the motivation of magic; that it is possible to discover the underlying reality behind mundane reality, and that that reality may have laws and princples which may be discovered and controlled.
		The basic mechanism of magical practices is the spell, a spoken or written formula which is used in conjunction with a particular set of ingredients.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/magic__paranormal_.html (3037 words)

	Sympathetic Magic
		All sympathetic magic is based upon two principles: first, "likes produce likes," or that an effect resembles it cause; and, second, that things having been in contact with each other continue to react upon one and another at a distant even after they have been severed or disconnected.
		In summary, sympathetic magic is the belief that what a magician does to a physical object that belonged to a person, or to a representation of the person will similarly effect that person.
		Sympathetic magic seems not to be limited just to the occult sciences; one sees individuals praying the Catholic rosary for sick people just as one sees Witches using their cords to heal the sick.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/s/sympathetic_magic.html (975 words)

	Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic. § 3. Contagious Magic. Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough
		The other great branch of sympathetic magic, which I have called Contagious Magic, proceeds upon the notion that things which have once been conjoined must remain ever afterwards, even when quite dissevered from each other, in such a sympathetic relation that whatever is done to the one must similarly affect the other.
		A curious application of the doctrine of contagious magic is the relation commonly believed to exist between a wounded man and the agent of the wound, so that whatever is subsequently done by or to the agent must correspondingly affect the patient either for good or evil.
		The sympathetic connexion supposed to exist between a man and the weapon which has wounded him is probably founded on the notion that the blood on the weapon continues to feel with the blood in his body.
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	sympathetic magic
		Sympathetic magic is the basis for most forms of divination.
		Sympathetic magic is the basis for psychometry, the claim of psychic detectives that touching an item belonging to a victim gives magical contact with the victim.
		Beyerstein also explains many notions of graphologists as little more than sympathetic magic, e.g., the notion that leaving wide spaces between letters indicates a proneness to isolation and loneliness because the wide spaces indicate someone who does not mix easily and is uncomfortable with closeness.
	skepdic.com /sympathetic.html (400 words)

	Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic. § 4. The Magician’s Progress. Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The examples by which I have illustrated them have been drawn for the most part from what may be called private magic, that is from magical rites and incantations practised for the benefit or the injury of individuals.
		For when the welfare of the tribe is supposed to depend on the performance of these magical rites, the magician rises into a position of much influence and repute, and may readily acquire the rank and authority of a chief or king.
		So far, therefore, as the public profession of magic has been one of the roads by which the ablest men have passed to supreme power, it has contributed to emancipate mankind from the thraldom of tradition and to elevate them into a larger, freer life, with a broader outlook on the world.
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	Encyclopedia: Sympathetic magic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In an age where the existence of magical forces is no longer taken for granted, believers in magic are likely to be asked, "How does magic work?"
		The basic mechanism of magical practices is the spell, a spoken or written ritualistic formula that might be used in conjunction with a particular set of ingredients.
		However, in most instances, the failure of a spell to bring about the desired effect can be attributed to the failure of the person executing the spell to follow the magic formula exactly.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sympathetic-magic (3196 words)

	In the Stars
		In Sympathetic Magic, Wilson attempts what Michael Frayn (Copenhagen) and Tom Stoppard (Arcadia) have done with great success — to incorporate into a play epic themes of science and the universe.
		Magic is the story of Ian Anderson, a young astrophysicist with nearly everything going for him.
		The least satisfying aspect of Magic is the treatment of the religious and scientific ideas, which regularly come and go nowhere.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/013102/ae.th.stages2.shtml (417 words)

	Magic Iconism
		It is the reader who activates the spell which transforms the mirror into a halo or mandorla (or perhaps a laurel wreath)--which in turn transforms the name inside into the poet's living presence.
		Apollinaire invokes an ancient sort of sympathetic magic, which works by metonymic transfer, to present himself "vivant et vrai" to the reader.
		But the crucial points are these: through magic, iconism connects the poem to the world of nature, while at the same time creating a defamiliarizing tension between icon and symbol.
	faculty.gvsu.edu /websterm/Coeur.htm (866 words)

	Magic A Brief History
		The belief in Magic, I believe, is as old as the world itself, as old as the first human, to ever wonder at the existence of the stars and believed in something beyond, himself.
		To me, LOVE is Magic, the real magic, caring about someone, the treat without the tricks, the star we humans look for in our universe from the very time we are born.
		Sympathetic is the kind of magic, that uses an object to represent the thing or person whose future, or destiny, you are trying to control.
	sunniebunniezz.com /magic/magichistory.htm (682 words)

	Cairn Hill - Sympathetic Magic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		According to the Sympathetic Mage, each object in the universe is bound to each other object by three ties: the tie of relationship, the tie of similarity, and the tie of experience.
		It is the most complex and ill-understood of all the ties, and the one most needed for the more powerful Sympathetic spells.
		To affect an object, a Sympathetic Mage finds another, more accessible object, to which it is bound, and then modifies that object in a prescribed way.
	cairnhill.sourceforge.net /magic/sympathetic (351 words)

	Single-Minded: An Independent Journal of Fact and Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sympathetic magic is far from confined to so-called primitive cultures.
		Most forms of sympathetic magic are harmless artifacts of ancient belief systems, but some forms are destructive nonsense.
		Just as there will always be people who believe in sympathetic magic, so too there will always be people who believe that man's needs must come first, that exploiting resources is an inalianable right.
	www.singmind.com /singleminded/200205/magic.htm (628 words)

	Sympathetic - balkanalysis.com - Will Sympathetic Testimonies Help Milosevic? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pain should not be reported as independent of sympathetic function until the criteria for a complete sympathetic block have been established and satisfied.
		The sympathetic nerves are a chain of nerves that run on the front side of the
		The pain that results from Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy is chronic, often burning, and constant.
	gou123.com /q/sympathetic.html (251 words)

	Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic. § 2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic. Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden ...
		One of the great merits of homoeopathic magic is that it enables the cure to be performed on the person of the doctor instead of on that of his victim, who is thus relieved of all trouble and inconvenience, while he sees his medical man writhe in anguish before him.
		On the principle of homoeopathic magic, inanimate things, as well as plants and animals, may diffuse blessing or bane around them, according to their own intrinsic nature and the skill of the wizard to tap or dam, as the case may be, the stream of weal or woe.
		But while a general magical efficacy may be supposed to reside in all stones by reason of their common properties of weight and solidity, special magical virtues are attributed to particular stones, or kinds of stone, in accordance with their individual or specific qualities of shape and colour.
	www.publicappeal.org /library/unicorn/Frazer/6.html (11492 words)

	Cargo cult - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unfortunately, the experiment failed, and the population grew in the households using the abacus.
		The women believed the abacuses were magical, and that they would be protected from pregnancy by moving a white bead into the place of the red bead before intercourse.
		Some Amazonian Indians have carved wood mockups of cassette players (gabarora from Portuguese gravadora or Spanish grabadora) that they use to communicate with spirits.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cargo_cult (715 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Sympathetic Magic
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		Lanford Wilson's "Sympathetic Magic" is set in San Francisco, obsessed with the cosmos and at home in neither.
		After the anthropologist discusses "sympathetic magic" --- tribal rituals in which the sound of rain, for example, is mimicked in order to bring about actual rain --- it's only a matter of time before Barbara tells Ian, "We act out good partnerships...
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117341353?categoryid=33&cs=1 (624 words)

	Sympathetic Magic
		Fueled by the infinite power of divine feminine, Sympathetic Magic has continued to march ahead through thick and thin to forge forward with a powerful and fearless new album.
		The band had their roots in Neutron Cafe but as the death of the old inevitably clears the way for the new, so it is here...
		John Blenn of Long Island Entertainment called the band "one of the Island's hardest working groups", and they have risen to the belief that "if things do show any signs of life in the days ahead, it will be because of bands like Sympathetic Magic".
	www.visionentertainment.com /html/sympathetic_magic.html (150 words)

	Sympathetic Magic
		Having place the problem of Palestinian “terrorism” entirely on the person of Yassar Arafat, the Sharon regime, and Israeli bootlicks in the United States, have come to the delusion that in getting rid of Chairman Arafat by way of either his assassination or exile, the problem of Palestinian terror will also be solved.
		In making Arafat into the personification of terror, and endorsing his removal from the scene, his Zionist detractors are reviving a custom of superstitious societies called sympathetic magic.
		These are all examples of sympathetic magic rituals.
	www.vho.org /tr/2002/4/tr12magic.html (1254 words)

	Pagan Forum - sympathetic magic in Gaelic myth? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sympathetic magick is also known as imitative magic.
		There are two types of sympathetic magick, one based on imitation, the other on correspondence.
		The Second Battle Of Magh Tuireadh when Miach is buried and “herbs three hundred and sixty-five, according to the number of his joints and sinews, grew through the grave.
	www.paganforum.com /showthread.php?s=21aaf036d6422ffc4b01cceb5a347e19&t=3262 (346 words)

	Theory of Magic two:
		Sympathetic magic: one is the law of similarity, ie that which
		palm or the use of a pendulum are all offshoots of sympathetic magic:
		Thus remote healing is usually an offshoot of sympathetic magic.
	homepage.eircom.net /~liossa/home/sympathetic.htm (816 words)

	Kalilily Time: Sympathetic Spring Magic.
		Yesterday, on the Spring Equinox, we five women gathered for a pot-luck brunch and some sympathetic magic.
		Or maybe it was just our ritualistic way to manifest our yearnings for warm weather and green shoots and, in general, a world more to our liking.
		Magic is an exhuberant two-and-a-half year old running out to greet his Grammy, who, of course, has brought him a surprise.
	www.kalilily.net /weblog/05/03/21/212441.html (400 words)

	Stage Review: 'Sympathetic Magic' wears off at end (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Greg Johnstone as Andy explains the rotation of galaxy groups to Ola Creston's Sue in Sympathetic Magic.
		Two parallel stories converge in Lanford Wilson's "Sympathetic Magic." In the first, an astrophysicist discovers something in the distant recesses of the universe so breathtaking it threatens to rewrite human understanding of fundamental physics and answer the ultimate eternal questions.
		Was he suggesting that "sympathetic magic" -- acting out our desires in the hope of making them real -- is an alchemy doomed to fail?
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04070/283511.stm (489 words)

	SFA // Sympathetic Magic - Part Eight
		Sympathetic Magic or not, he was in no condition to reach for his bond.
		The Magic in Harry swelled and grew, flooding through Harry as the Killing Curse was cast at him from all sides, the Death Eaters rushing to the defence of their cruel master.
		When Fudge had found out that they were practitioners of Sympathetic Magic, he had been very excited, and started making plans for their state wedding, offering to officiate at the ceremony himself.
	www.noiresensus.com /bookshelf/harrypotter/sympatheticmagic08.html (20952 words)

	Directors in Focus: Sympathetic Magic: The Cinema of Souleymane Cisse
		The Harvard Film Archive is honored to welcome Souleymane Cissé, this year’s recipient of the fifth annual Genevieve McMillan and Reba Stewart Fellowship for Distinguished Filmmaking.
		Set in a small village community in contemporary Africa, Finye centers on a love affair between an army commander’s daughter and the grandson of a tribal chief.
		A spirited, sympathetic portrait of a society in transition, the film defines the director’s central philosophical premise: that the ethnographic approach or seemingly modern view of African culture is no more valid that the traditional metaphysical view.
	www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/01novdec/cisse.html (606 words)

	Sympathetic Magic
		The impact of the advent of photography on this icon’s role with the history of Christianity was both profound and paradoxical.
		But the sympathetic magic of the cave walls is seldom very far away when we physically confront the surface of an Appearance.
		Pat Hoffie is an artist and writer who also works as an academic at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University where she is an Associate Professor and the Convenor of Painting.
	home.iprimus.com.au /painless/space/pathoffie.html (4032 words)

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