Sentences with phrase «imitative magic»

A preacher of integrity will avoid the practice of imitative magic, manufacturing tears, laughter, and other emotional signs in order to generate these among his hearers.

A good example of imitative magic is seen in the case of Moses» putting a brass serpent on a pole so that the people being bitten by serpents could be healed by looking up at it.

Prayers for rain, as well as imitative magic to produce it, were and are a commonplace in primitive faiths.