  | MAGIC | | I. | SYMPATHETIC MAGIC. | | A. Contagious Magic. | | Hair, nail-pairings, etc. (3), scalp-lock (4), saliva (5), luck-ball (5), footprints (6), clothes (7), rag bushes and pin-wells (8), personal ‘ornaments’ (9), food (10), cannibalism (10), sympathetic relations between persons (11), couvade (13). | | B. Homoeopathic Magic. | | Plants (15), rain-making (16), wind-making (18), increase of plants (18), and of animals (19), luring animals to be caught (19), human effigies to injure or kill people (20). | | II. | MAGICAL POWER OF NAMES AND WORDS. | | Objection to names being mentioned of people, fairies, and animals (22), names of power (24), satire (26), geis (27), tabu (28). | | III. | TALISMANS AND AMULETS. | | Stones and metals (30), colour (31), bones, teeth, claws, etc. (32), lucky pig (33), amulets against the evil eye (33), luck-bone (39). | | IV. | DIVINATION—(40). | | V. | PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MAGIC. | | A. Public Magic. | | Australian intichiuma totem ceremonies (41), corn-planting dance of the Musquakie (45). | | B. Private Magic. | | Folk-remedies (46), love-charms (47), nefarious magic (48). | | VI. | MAGICIANS. | | Training of sorcerers and societies of magicians (51). | | VII. | PSYCHOLOGY OF MAGICAL PRACTICES. | | Nervous instability (53), suggestion (53), make-believe (55), tabu (55), mana (58), projective will-power or telepathy (60), from spell to prayer (61), the impossible not undertaken (62), loopholes in case of failure (63). | | FETISHISM | | I. | DEFINITION. | | 1. Etymological (66), 2. Historical (66), 3. Dogmatic (67). | | II. | ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS OF FETISHISM. | | May be any object (72), a symbolic charm with sympathetic properties (74), a sign or token representing an ideal notion or being (76), habitation of a spiritual being (
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