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the minds of peoples that have made some advance be- 

 yond the lowest savagery by a belief in personal spirits 

 or ghosts. The basis of magic is the "mana," already 



mentioned. 



izer reduces the fundamental principles of magic 

 to two: first, that liU produces like, or that an 

 effect resembles its cause ; and second, that things v. 

 have once been in contact, iut have ceased to be BO, 

 >iitinn<> to act on each other as if the contact still per- 

 sisted. The savage inf. is from the first of these prin- 

 ciples that he can produce any desired effect by in 



ni the second principle he concludes that 

 he can influence at pleasure and at any distance, any per- 

 son of whom, or any tiling of which he possesses a 

 particle. Magic of the first sort I has called "imi- 



tative magic," and magic of the second kind he has called 

 "sympathetic magic." I'.ut inasmuch as the efficacy of 

 nitative magic depends upon a certain physical in- 

 e or sympathy, both kinds of magic may be con- 

 'iitly called sympathetic niOL 



most familiar application of imitative magic based 

 upon the principle that like produces like, is the attempt 

 to injure or destroy an enemy by mutilating or destroy- 

 ing an image of him, in the belief that, just as the 

 image is hurt, so does the man suffer and die when the 

 image perishes. 4 * The Ojebway Indian d* ->ii -inir to work 

 evil to his enemy, makes a little wooden image of him 

 and runs a needle into its head or heart, or he shoots an 

 arrow into it, for he believes that by so doing his foe 

 will at the same instant be seized with a sharp pain in 

 the corresponding part of his body. A Malay charm 

 which enables Q mother person is to take 



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