28 



INTRODUCTION 



joiie un role considerable et s'associe a toiites les formes de 

 ractivite." i 



Magic, especially imitative magic, according to Frazer and 

 others, plays a great part in the measures taken by the rude 

 hunter or fisherman to secure an abundant supply of food. 

 On the principle that like pro- 

 duces like, many things are done 

 by him or for him by his friends 

 in deliberate imitation of the result 

 sought. 



Confirmatory evidence from 

 races, past and present the world 

 over, stands ready to call. The 

 Point Barrow Eskimos, when 

 following the whale, always carry 

 a whale-shaped amulet of stone or 

 wood. The North African fisher- 

 man of the present day, in 

 obedience to an ancient Moslem 

 work on Magic, fashions a tin 

 image of the fish which he de- 

 sires, inscribes it with four mystic 

 letters, and fastens it to his fine. 



If at the due season fish fail 

 to appear, the Nootka wizard con- 

 structs of wood 2 a fish swimming, 

 and launches it in the direction 

 whence the schools generally arrive. 

 This simulacrum, plus incantations, 

 compels the laggards in no time. 3 

 In Cambodia, if a netsman be 

 unsuccessful, he strips naked and withdraws a short dis- 

 tance : then strolHng up to the net, as if he saw it not, he 

 lets himself be caught in the meshes, whereupon he calls 



^ Acad, des Sciences, Paris, seance du 22 juin, 1903. 



2 The pictured hook is of special interest. The head, considered by 

 Krause that of a wizard, was intended to endow the hook with an extra 

 power of magic. 



* F. Boaz, 0th Report on N.W. Tribes of Canada, p. 45. 



an alaskan hook with a 



wizard's head. 

 From E. Krause's Verge- 



schichtliche Fischereiger'die, 



fig. 345. 



