Usually means: Imitative or contagious magical connections.
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  1. sympathetic magic: Merriam-Webster
  2. sympathetic magic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sympathetic magic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sympathetic magic: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. sympathetic magic: Dictionary.com
  6. Sympathetic magic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. sympathetic magic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. sympathetic magic: Wiktionary

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  1. sympathetic magic: The Skeptic's Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sympathetic magic)

▸ noun:  (anthropology) A type of magic based on imitation or correspondence.

Similar:
magic, magicology, image magic, metamagic, mimeticism, magical thinking, magicianship, charmwork, sorcery, spellcraft, more...

Opposite:
antipathetic magic, unsympathetic magic

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Similar:
magic, magicology, image magic, metamagic, mimeticism, magical thinking, magicianship, charmwork, sorcery, spellcraft, more...

Opposite:
antipathetic magic, unsympathetic magic



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