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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024conta′gious mag′ic, - Anthropologymagic that attempts to affect a person through something once connected with him or her, as a shirt once worn by the person or a footprint left in the sand;
a branch of sympathetic magic based on the belief that things once in contact are in some way permanently so, however separated physically they may subsequently become. Cf. imitative magic.
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