Sympathetic Magic: Frazer and Mauss

The intellectual lineage also includes the anthropological tradition. James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough (1890) documented the laws of Sympathetic Magic:

• The Law of Similarity: like produces like
• The Law of Contagion: things once in contact remain connected
• The Law of Opposites: opposite cures opposite

Marcel Mauss refined these into a framework that also mentions Mana, though for Mauss Mana was a concept discovered by explorers in the Pacific, rather than an immanence, as this author has discovered, embedded in all Indo-European linguistic cultures and emanating from the Ancient Ukrainian Yamna who created the ancestor of all living Indo-European languages. It is this author’s expanded and deeper understanding of Mana which he applies to Disinfolklore as the Mana concept. This is explored in depth through Tool 3: Mana in the Meme.

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