“For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.”

— James Frazer , book The Golden Bough

Source: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 3, Sympathetic Magic.

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Scottish social anthropologist 1854–1941

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