sympathetic magic
noun1
Anthropology, Human sciences, Sciences A type of magic based on imitation or correspondence; magic in which items of the same form are connected over distance.
- 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.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 53:
- By what is called “sympathetic magic” by witchcraft historians, she is said to have been able to “kill her victims from a distance”.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 91: