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40 Cards in this Set
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antipathia |
network of hostilities between things in the natural world |
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contagious magic |
magic based on direct contact between victim and material used in spell |
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Doctrine of Signatures |
theory that all natural things bear signs indicating their properties and uses |
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emanationism |
claim (based on corpuscular theory) that objects emit streams of atoms that bear influence |
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metaphor |
assertion of identity based on similarity |
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metonym |
assertion of identity based on link between part and whole |
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Omnipotence of Thought |
(psychological) claim that "primitives," children, and the mentally ill believe that ideas = real things |
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sympathetic magic |
magic based on likeness of victim to material used in spell |
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sympathia |
network of affinities between things in the natural world |
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dirt |
whatever exists outside categorical organization |
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interstice |
boundary between one category and another |
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Structuralism |
theory that brain structures experience in terms of binary oppositions |
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taboo |
negative emotional value assigned to dirt |
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deixis (=referential language) |
direct, one-for-one relation between word and thing |
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emotive language |
utterances that vent emotions |
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Ephesian characters |
visual signs credited with magical power |
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magic square |
arrangement of letters in a grid in which each row and file spell the same word |
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performative language |
utterances that ipso facto change reality |
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pterugma |
voces magicae areranged in the shape of a wing |
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palindrome |
series of letters/words that reads the same forwards and backwards |
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voces magicae |
non-referential utterances used in magical formulas |
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agathodaimôn |
kindly, cooperative, "guardian" divinity |
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anagôgê |
ascent of the soul towards god |
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empsykhôsis |
implantation of divinity into material container (e.g. statue) |
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kakodaimôn |
malevolent divinity |
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pneumata akatharta |
"unclean spirits," demons that possess individuals |
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symbola |
signs, tokens in the world of divine/magical powers |
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syncretism |
blending and amalgamation of different religions and systems of belief |
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theurgy |
"spiritual" magic that aims at knowledge of god |
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augury |
divination on the basis of the behavior of birds |
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haruspicy |
divination on the basis of observation of entrails (esp. liver) of sacrificial animals |
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klêdôn |
significant coincidence |
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manteia |
divination |
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nekromancy |
divination on the basis of interrogation of corpses |
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templum |
division of sky into quadrants for purpose of divination |
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teratomancy |
divination based on unusual events |
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oneiros |
significant dream |
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enupnion |
ordinary, insignificant dream |
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horama |
direct (often prophetic or admonitory) dream vision |
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oneirokritês |
dream interpreter |
