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Definition of sympathetic magic in English: sympathetic magicnoun mass nounPrimitive or magical ritual using objects or actions resembling or symbolically associated with the event or person over which influence is sought. 感应巫术（使用与事件或人相联系的物体或行为来影响他们的原始或神秘仪式） Example sentencesExamples - While modern photography has encouraged a good majority to record important events in their lives through individual and family portraits, the fear lingers that a printed image is susceptible to sympathetic magic.
- The second reason has to do with the belief that through sympathetic magic, a naturalistic portrait could be transformed into a surrogate for the human body and then manipulated for positive or negative ends.
- It is also possible that this practice is related to superstitions based on sympathetic magic.
- When we practice sympathetic magic, the principle of ‘like attracts like’ is the foundation we build on to get results.
- This merely underscores the contention that sympathetic magic is the real rationale behind graphology, for the essence of magical thinking is that causes resemble their effects and are therefore interchangeable.
- Particularly useful are the examples given of folk rituals used for curing and divination, which are not only listed but often discussed in detail in the context of the concepts of transference or sympathetic magic.
- Empty words that everyone seemed to believe would magically draw profits, sympathetic magic from chanting corporate shamans.
- All assignment of metaphysical properties to foods is arbitrary, but may be based on sympathetic magic.
- All such forms of divination seem to be based on sympathetic magic and cold reading.
- In the laws of sympathetic magic, garnets, whose rich dark red resembles venous blood, relate to bleeding and wounds, blood bonds and disorders, and blood itself; people have used red stones to treat blood diseases.
- For instance, sympathetic magic or theurgic magic could be thought of as analogous to painting and sculpture, what you do remains the same, but the materials you use and the style you adopt can differ greatly.
- Barry Beyerstein believes that sympathetic magic is the basis for many New Age notions such as ‘resonance,’ the idea that if things can be mentally associated they can magically influence each other.
- Ideas with little scientific backing, such as those of sympathetic magic, are popular among ‘alternative’ practitioners and their clients.
- Reversing the sympathetic magic of primitive beliefs like voodoo, we gamble that like repels like, that the tragic won't need to happen because it has already played out in the pit of our deepest anxiety.
- The Mother gives birth and through sympathetic magic brings fertility to the crops and the tribe.
- Quackery usually involves integrating metaphysics and such things as sympathetic magic or spiritualism with healing.
- In most circles, this kind of thinking is called sympathetic magic.
- This 400-year project, and her work as a whole, is perhaps a form of prophecy, or an omen, or a piece of sympathetic magic.
- Protection against such potential sources of harm was sought through sympathetic magic.
- Why anyone's fate would be mysteriously contained in playing cards is a mystery; although, sympathetic magic seems to play a role.
Synonyms sorcery, witchcraft, wizardry, necromancy, enchantment, spellworking, incantation, the supernatural, occultism, the occult, black magic, the black arts, devilry, divination, malediction, voodoo, hoodoo, white magic, witching, witchery
Definition of sympathetic magic in US English: sympathetic magicnoun Primitive or magical ritual using objects or actions resembling or symbolically associated with the event or person over which influence is sought. 感应巫术（使用与事件或人相联系的物体或行为来影响他们的原始或神秘仪式） Example sentencesExamples - Why anyone's fate would be mysteriously contained in playing cards is a mystery; although, sympathetic magic seems to play a role.
- Reversing the sympathetic magic of primitive beliefs like voodoo, we gamble that like repels like, that the tragic won't need to happen because it has already played out in the pit of our deepest anxiety.
- Quackery usually involves integrating metaphysics and such things as sympathetic magic or spiritualism with healing.
- All such forms of divination seem to be based on sympathetic magic and cold reading.
- For instance, sympathetic magic or theurgic magic could be thought of as analogous to painting and sculpture, what you do remains the same, but the materials you use and the style you adopt can differ greatly.
- Particularly useful are the examples given of folk rituals used for curing and divination, which are not only listed but often discussed in detail in the context of the concepts of transference or sympathetic magic.
- In the laws of sympathetic magic, garnets, whose rich dark red resembles venous blood, relate to bleeding and wounds, blood bonds and disorders, and blood itself; people have used red stones to treat blood diseases.
- The Mother gives birth and through sympathetic magic brings fertility to the crops and the tribe.
- Protection against such potential sources of harm was sought through sympathetic magic.
- All assignment of metaphysical properties to foods is arbitrary, but may be based on sympathetic magic.
- This 400-year project, and her work as a whole, is perhaps a form of prophecy, or an omen, or a piece of sympathetic magic.
- Empty words that everyone seemed to believe would magically draw profits, sympathetic magic from chanting corporate shamans.
- Barry Beyerstein believes that sympathetic magic is the basis for many New Age notions such as ‘resonance,’ the idea that if things can be mentally associated they can magically influence each other.
- Ideas with little scientific backing, such as those of sympathetic magic, are popular among ‘alternative’ practitioners and their clients.
- When we practice sympathetic magic, the principle of ‘like attracts like’ is the foundation we build on to get results.
- The second reason has to do with the belief that through sympathetic magic, a naturalistic portrait could be transformed into a surrogate for the human body and then manipulated for positive or negative ends.
- It is also possible that this practice is related to superstitions based on sympathetic magic.
- In most circles, this kind of thinking is called sympathetic magic.
- This merely underscores the contention that sympathetic magic is the real rationale behind graphology, for the essence of magical thinking is that causes resemble their effects and are therefore interchangeable.
- While modern photography has encouraged a good majority to record important events in their lives through individual and family portraits, the fear lingers that a printed image is susceptible to sympathetic magic.
Synonyms sorcery, witchcraft, wizardry, necromancy, enchantment, spellworking, incantation, the supernatural, occultism, the occult, black magic, the black arts, devilry, divination, malediction, voodoo, hoodoo, white magic, witching, witchery
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