...principles of sympathetic magic is that any effect may be produced by imitating it. To take a few instances. If it is wished to kill a person an image of him is...and that when it is destroyed he must simultaneously perish. Again, in Morocco a fowl or a pigeon may sometimes be seen with a little red bundle tied to...

...purposes of religion. To illustrate his meaning of the term Sympathetic Magic, the author73 says: " If it is wished to kill a person, an image of him...and that when it is destroyed he must simultaneously perish." The idea herein expressed is as old as the hills, and is practised to-day.74 The ancient Egyptians...

...motive in their practice of magic, in many heathen rites and in magical dances. Dr. Fraser writes: "One of the principles of sympathetic magic is that...and that when it is destroyed he must simultaneously perish. Again, in Morocco, a fowl or a pigeon may sometimes be seen with a little red bundle tied to...

...xxxvii., cli., etc. a Vide Birth, Marriage, Funerals, Medicine. 82 RELATIONS WITH THE SUPERNATURAL CH. m us, convey to the Malays the idea of complete abstinence,...of the Malays. 1 It was on Jugra Hill, according to - Frazer, Golden Bough, vol. i. pp. tradition, that the Princess of Malacca 9-12. fasted to obtain...

...then destroyed; and it is believed that through a certain physical sympathy between the person and the image, the man feels the injuries done to the image...his own body, and that when it is destroyed he must instantaneously perish' (GB1 i. 9). When in the year of the book's publication Hardy read these remarks,...