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1. Frazer claims that there are basically two kinds of magic. What are they?
2. Among the South Slavs, how might a young woman secure the fidelity of her beau by using his footprint?
3. Which of the following is part of a Hindu ritual to treat jaundice?
4. According to Frazer, the practice commonly called the "voodoo doll" is not unique to voodoo practice at all. Which of these cultures uses representations of people in ways strikingly similar to the voodoo doll?
5. Which of these rituals was used to assure a happy afterlife in the funerary rituals of the folk native to the Darling River region of Australia?
6. Frazer reports of a ritual in the Kei Islands where women fill baskets with fruits and stones then annoint the baskets with oil while reciting an incantation. What effect is this ritual supposed to have?
7. Frazer outlines a Galelareese spell that a young man may use to make sure his sweetheart's family stays sleeping while he woos her. How is this accomplished?
8. According to North American Blackfoot belief, what benefit does taking a human skull along on a hunting expedition confer?
9. There is a spell used by South Slavic women where they wash coins that have covered a dead man's eyes in water or wine; this drink is later given to their husbands. What is the effect of this necromancy?
10. Despite his insistence that magic and religion are fundamentally separate things, Frazer does admit of several magical rituals which seem to fuse with religion. One of these is the legendary black mass, which condemns the object thereof to a slow death. Frazer does not use the term "black" to describe this ritual, however. What Saint is this mass named for?
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