MAGIC AND SORCERY

MAGIC AND SORCERY. According to Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss (“Esquisse d’une theorie generale de la magic,” in Mauss’s Sociologie et anthropologie, Paris, 1950, pp. 1-141), magic must be distinguished from religion. While religious rites and prayers are conducted by special clergies for the sake of the community, magic is usually practiced privately for individual

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