sympathetic magic

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

The principle of similarity, also known as the " association of ideas ", which falls under the category of sympathetic magic, is the thought that if a certain result follows a certain action, then that action must be responsible for the result.

Based on sympathetic magic, one might interpret these series of events differently.

This corresponds to James Frazer's theory of sympathetic magic.

Through analogy and through the belief that one can control or aid the powers of nature by the practice of magic, particularly sympathetic magic, sexuality might characterize part of the cult of the Baʿals and ʿAshtarts.

Some purported aphrodisiacs gain their reputation from the principles of sympathetic magic, for example oysters, due to their shape.

This is an example of sympathetic magic.

There is, for instance, what anthropology describes as ' sympathetic magic '— the attempt to influence the powers of nature by an imitation of the process which it is desired that they should perform.

In a form of sympathetic magic, many built life-size replicas of aeroplanes out of straw and cut new military-style landing strips out of the jungle, hoping to attract more aeroplanes.

In their seminal works The Golden Bough and Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, Frazer and Harrison argued that all myths are echoes of rituals, and that all rituals have as their primordial purpose the manipulation of natural phenomena by means of sympathetic magic.

Concepts analogous to mana in various other cultures include the power of magic, sympathetic magic and of seeking the intervention of a specific supernatural being, whether deity, saint or deceased ancestor.

As with ' cave pictures ... show animals at the point of mating ... served magic fertility rites ', such rites are ' a form of sympathetic magic ' in which the forces of nature are to be influenced by the example acted out in the ritual.

The intention is that whatever actions are performed upon the effigy will be transferred to the subject based in sympathetic magic.

This was a kind of sympathetic magic ; one manufactured a powder using appropriate astrological techniques, and daubed it, not on the injured part, but on whatever had caused the injury.

Beyond these patches of evidence-based application, people used other methods, such as occultism ; the " doctrine of signatures " — essentially, the application of sympathetic magic to pharmacology — held that nature had hidden clues to medically effective drugs in their resemblances to the human body and its parts.

On this theory, the royal forester would have organised sympathetic magic rituals to ensure a plentiful catch each year, a tradition that survived into Christian times and gradually came to be seen as affirming the villagers ' hunting rights.

He saw the figurines as sexless, unless they had unmistakable features like sex organs, breasts and beards, and he resolutely refused to see them as representations of deities, instead characterizing them as amulets of sympathetic magic, or even children's toys.

Both Robigus and robigo are also found as Rubig -, which following the etymology-by-association of antiquity was thought to be connected to the color red ( ruber ) as a form of homeopathic or sympathetic magic.

Visser 1913: 117 ) describes using panlong dragons in sympathetic magic for rainfall, " where a mirror, adorned on the backside with a " coiled dragon ", p ' an lung, 盤龍, is said to have been worshipped ( rather used in a magical way ) in order to cause rain.

" The Classic of the Great Wilderness: The East " ( 14, 大荒東經 ) mentions Yinglong killing both Chi You " Jest Much " and Kua Fu " Boast Father ", and describes using Yinglong images in sympathetic magic for rainmaking.

In the times of sympathetic magic, the spotted oval leaves of P. officinalis were thought to symbolize diseased, ulcerated lungs, and so were used to treat pulmonary infections.

A museum curator has suggested that these substances were used as " sympathetic magic " and that the animal bone could symbolize animal strength to help the child cope with pain.

It has been variously proposed that it began as a religious sacrifice, as a rite of passage marking a boy's entrance into adulthood, as a form of sympathetic magic to ensure virility or fertility, as a means of enhancing sexual pleasure, as an aid to hygiene where regular bathing was impractical, as a means of marking those of higher social status, as a means of humiliating enemies and slaves by symbolic castration, as a means of differentiating a circumcising group from their non-circumcising neighbors, as a means of discouraging masturbation or other socially proscribed sexual behaviors, as a means of removing " excess " pleasure, as a means of increasing a man's attractiveness to women, as a demonstration of one's ability to endure pain, or as a male counterpart to menstruation or the breaking of the hymen, or to copy the rare natural occurrence of a missing foreskin of an important leader, and as a display of disgust of the smegma produced by the foreskin.

According to biblical scholars, this ritual derives from the same origin as the ritual described in Deuteronomy for a group of people to atone for murder by an unknown perpetrator, according to which a heifer is killed at a stream, and hands are washed over it ; biblical scholars believe that these are both ultimately cases of sympathetic magic, and similar rituals existed in Greek and Roman mythology.

This grouping has been interpreted as a symbolic representation of early Roman society, wherein Jupiter, standing in for the ritual and augural authority of the Flamen Dialis ( high priest of Jupiter ) and the chief priestly colleges, represents the priestly class, Mars, with his warrior and agricultural functions, represents the power of the king and young nobles to bring prosperity and victory through sympathetic magic with rituals like the October Horse and the Lupercalia, and Quirinus, with his source as the deified form of Rome's founder Romulus and his derivation from co-viri (" men together ") representing the combined military and economic strength of the Roman people.