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sympathetic magic

noun

Definitions

  1. A type of magic based on imitation or correspondence

    A type of magic based on imitation or correspondence; magic in which items of the same form are connected over distance.

    • The witch who carried out the baking technique used this form of sympathetic magic to arouse desire in correspondence with the flaming heat of the oven.
    • By what is called “sympathetic magic” by witchcraft historians, she is said to have been able to “kill her victims from a distance”.

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