"The Golden Bough" Quotes
A study of mythology and religion, exploring the common themes and rituals across different cultures.
mythology | 880 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Magic is the bastard sister of science.
The man who believes that the practice of magic will bring him good luck is by no means the fool that he is often thought to be.
The belief in magic and religion is a survival from an earlier stage of human knowledge.
The magician is not a priest, but a seer; he does not propitiate the gods, but compels them.
The magical control of the weather is a popular branch of sorcery.
The theory of sympathetic magic is that like produces like.
The doctrine of signatures is a particular case of the general theory of sympathetic magic.
The magician is a dealer in spiritual contraband.
The magician is in truth a power, but a power that is generated within the mind and acts only on the mind.
The use of images in magic is practically inexhaustible.
