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Quotation from The Golden Bough (abridged edition) by James George Frazer
“first, that like produces like, or that an effect resembles its cause; and, second, that things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.”
The Golden Bough (abridged edition), Chapter III, "Sympathetic Magic", section 1 (Project Gutenberg text)
The two principles from which Frazer derives homoeopathic and contagious magic.
Citation: "first, that like produces like, or that an effect resembles its cause; and, second, that things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed." — James George Frazer, The Golden Bough (abridged edition), Chapter III, "Sympathetic Magic", section 1 (Project Gutenberg text). (id frazer-the-golden-bough-q2)
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