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Animatism
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Beliefs in generalized supernatural powers like mana that reside in things
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Animism
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A very general term covering all sorts of beliefs in spirits, ghosts, and more diffuse supernatural powers
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Anxiety Theory of Magic
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In those areas where there is much uncertainty and even danger, people will use magic to reduce anxiety
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Augury
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A ritual procedure for learning about past, present, or future
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Law of Contagion
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Magical belief that objects once in contact can still affect each other
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Law of Opposites
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A principle of magic that opposites have a certain connection and can affect each other
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Law of Similarity
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The principle, common in magic, that similar things have a certain connection, and acts done to one will have an effect on its likeness
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Liminal Period
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A time, in rites of passage, between leaving the old state and entering the new one, when the initiate is in a sort of symbolic and spiritual "betwixt and between".
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Magic
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Manipulating the supernatural world through speech and ritual acts
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Mana
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The supernaturally derived force or power of a particularly important or noble person
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Mascots
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What U.S. schools, colleges, and professional sports teams call their totems
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Monotheism
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A religious system based on belief in a single high god
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New Age Witches
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Late-20th-century European and North American practitioners of benevolent magic
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Polytheism
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Belief in more than one god
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Religion
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A system of beliefs and ritual ways of relating to supernatural beings and forces through beseeching prayers rather than through the formulaic demands of magic
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