sympathetic magic

English

Noun

sympathetic magic (uncountable)

  1. (anthropology) A type of magic based on imitation or correspondence; magic in which items of the same form are connected over distance.
    Synonym: homeopathic magic
    • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 53:
      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.
    • 1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 91:
      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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