Here the putting of fire to the sun-stone is a piece of pure homoeopathic or imitative magic, designed to increase the burning heat of the sun by mimicry.
Here the imitation of childbirth is a piece of homoeopathic or imitative magic designed to facilitate the effect which it simulates.
Again, the common practice of throwing fiery discs, sometimes expressly said to be shaped like suns, into the air at the festivals may well be a piece of imitative magic.
Thus the superstition seems to rest on the common principle of homoeopathic or imitative magic, that an eater infects himself with the qualities of the animal of whose flesh he partakes.
The principle on which it rested was the familiar one of homoeopathic or imitative magic: by mimicking the act of ploughing and the growth of the corn the mummers hoped to ensure the success of the real ploughing, which was soon to take place.
Charms based on the Law of Similarity may be called Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic.
On the principles of homoeopathic or imitative magic, see The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, i.
Such embraces of the divine powers or their human representatives might well be deemed, on the principles of homoeopathic or imitative magic, indispensable to the growth of the crops.
M211 The foregoing customs were originally rites intended to ensure the revival of nature in spring by means of imitative magic.
On the principles of homoeopathic or imitative magic it might be thought that the higher the priests swing the higher will grow the rice.
If that is so, it would seem that the rite is a magical ceremony designed to promote the fertility of the ground by means of homoeopathic or imitative magic.
It is a simple piece of imitative magic, like the leaps and bounds which the peasants of Central Europe often execute for precisely the same purpose.
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