PREFATORY NOTE
It is by no means easy to do justice to such a large, comprehensive, and at the same time vague subject as magic in the small compass of a Primer, and part of even that small space had to be devoted to another subject. For sins of omission I must claim this excuse; for sins of commission I claim the indulgence of the reader.
A. C. H.
CONTENTS
| [MAGIC] | |
| I. | SYMPATHETIC MAGIC. |
| A. Contagious Magic. | |
| Hair, nail-pairings, etc. ([3]), scalp-lock ([4]), saliva ([5]), luck-ball ([5]), footprints ([6]), clothes ([7]), rag bushes and pin-wells ([8]), personal ‘ornaments’ ([9]), food ([10]), cannibalism ([10]), sympathetic relations between persons ([11]), couvade ([13]). | |
| B. Homœopathic Magic. | |
| Plants ([15]), rain-making ([16]), wind-making ([18]), increase of plants ([18]), and of animals ([19]), luring animals to be caught ([19]), human effigies to injure or kill people ([20]). | |
| II. | MAGICAL POWER OF NAMES AND WORDS. |
| Objection to names being mentioned of people, fairies, and animals ([22]), names of power ([24]), satire ([26]), geis ([27]), tabu ([28]). | |
| III. | TALISMANS AND AMULETS. |
| Stones and metals ([30]), colour ([31]), bones, teeth, claws, etc. ([32]), lucky pig ([33]), amulets against the evil eye ([33]), luck-bone ([39]). | |
| IV. | DIVINATION—([40]). |
| V. | PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MAGIC. |
| A. Public Magic. | |
| Australian intichiuma totem ceremonies ([41]), corn-planting dance of the Musquakie ([45]). | |
| B. Private Magic. | |
| Folk-remedies ([46]), love-charms ([47]), nefarious magic ([48]). | |
| VI. | MAGICIANS. |
| Training of sorcerers and societies of magicians ([51]). | |
| VII. | PSYCHOLOGY OF MAGICAL PRACTICES. |
| Nervous instability ([53]), suggestion ([53]), make-believe ([55]), tabu ([55]), mana ([58]), projective will-power or telepathy ([60]), from spell to prayer ([61]), the impossible not undertaken ([62]), loopholes in case of failure ([63]). | |
| [FETISHISM] | |
| I. | DEFINITION. |
| 1. Etymological ([66]), 2. Historical ([66]), 3. Dogmatic ([67]). | |
| II. | ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS OF FETISHISM. |
| May be any object ([72]), a symbolic charm with sympathetic properties ([74]), a sign or token representing an ideal notion or being ([76]), habitation of a spiritual being ([77]), vehicle for communication of a spirit ([79]), instrument by which spirit acts ([80]), possesses personality and will ([83]), may act by own will or by foreign spirit ([84]), spirit and material object can be dissociated ([87]), worshipped, sacrificed to, talked with ([89]), petted and ill-treated ([90]). | |
| III. | FETISHISM AS A FORM OF RELIGIOUS WORSHIP—([91]). |