Sympathetic magic, also known as imitative magic, is a type of magic based on imitation or correspondence. == Similarity and contagion == James George Frazer coined the term "sympathetic magic" in The Golden Bough (1889); Richard Andree, however, anticipated Frazer, writing of sympathy-enchantment (German: Sympathie-Zauber) in his 1878 Ethnographische Parallelen und Vergleiche.
Sympathetic magic, also known as imitative magic, is a type of magic based on imitation or correspondence. == Similarity and contagion == James George Frazer coined the term "sympathetic magic" in The Golden Bough (1889); Richard Andree, however, anticipated Frazer, writing of sympathy-enchantment (German: Sympathie-Zauber) in his 1878 Ethnographische Parallelen und Vergleiche.
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