contagious magic

Contagious magic involves the use of physical ingredients which were once in contact with the person or a thing which the practitioner intends to influence.

Frazer further categorized these principles as falling under "sympathetic magic", and "contagious magic."

Above all, functionalism must not be allowed to become a kind of contagious magic characterized, in Frazer's definition, by the confusion of effects with causes.

One common means of categorization distinguishes between contagious magic and sympathetic magic, one or both of which may be employed in any magical work.

Practices based upon the law of similarity may be termed Homeopathic magic: those on the law of contagion, Contagious magic."

There's a kind of "contagious magic" in wearing athletic gear, says Steve Barnett, an anthropologist with the cultural analysis division of Holen North America, a consumer research company in New York City.

It blazed up, and all the students gasped in astonishment, as he transferred the blaze to the kindling, remarking, "Sometimes you have to give the fire your breath to get it going-that's contagious magic also-and with hair long and loose, you risk being burned unless you're careful."

"This particular kind of sorcery is called contagious magic, which means it catches its impetus from the intention of the 'assembly,' the materials we assemble around it, for every material and artifact conveys at least one intention, and for things with multiple intentions, the assembly serves to identify the particular intention that is meant.