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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 9305700" data-attributes="member: 6796468"><p>That is super cool!</p><p></p><p>I was talking to my husband in the car about this on the way home from watching the new Ghostbusters movie and he coined the term "Anillogic" to describe it.</p><p></p><p>It's not an entirely illogical connection, but it's based on magical thinking. It's -sort of- like Sympathetic magic, and indeed directly representational anillogic magic (Fetishes/dolls/etc) are covered under Sympathetic magic as 'Imitation'.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile there's also "Correspondence" which is particularly important in things like Alchemy and Potioncraft. Lead and Gold weigh about the same amount so there's got to be a way to make Lead into Gold. Similarly the four humors can be manipulated by eating correspondingly colored foods and herbs. Yellow herbs were often used to deal with jaundice, while red beet juice was thought to be good for the blood. And, of course, -any- sufficiently phallic root can be consumed whole or brewed into a tea that will cure impotence!</p><p></p><p>But it's also where the lich's relic came from. The idea that someone's life-force could be externalized and placed into an object that then needed to be destroyed. Like the heartless giant's heart being in an egg in the nest of a duck in the bottom of a well that was in a church on an island very far away.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand pretty much every myth about shadows either has the shadow representing a soul or being a representation of the self that can be manipulated. Romanian folklore includes stories that damaging a person's shadow would see similar injuries inflicted on the owner. Austrian holiday traditions included the idea that if someone cast a shadow without a head they'd be dead before next Christmas. And Peter Schelmihl and other stories spread the idea that people without shadows had no souls, or would sell their souls. (In his story, Pete sold his shadow to the devil but not his soul, people just -thought- he sold his soul)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 9305700, member: 6796468"] That is super cool! I was talking to my husband in the car about this on the way home from watching the new Ghostbusters movie and he coined the term "Anillogic" to describe it. It's not an entirely illogical connection, but it's based on magical thinking. It's -sort of- like Sympathetic magic, and indeed directly representational anillogic magic (Fetishes/dolls/etc) are covered under Sympathetic magic as 'Imitation'. Meanwhile there's also "Correspondence" which is particularly important in things like Alchemy and Potioncraft. Lead and Gold weigh about the same amount so there's got to be a way to make Lead into Gold. Similarly the four humors can be manipulated by eating correspondingly colored foods and herbs. Yellow herbs were often used to deal with jaundice, while red beet juice was thought to be good for the blood. And, of course, -any- sufficiently phallic root can be consumed whole or brewed into a tea that will cure impotence! But it's also where the lich's relic came from. The idea that someone's life-force could be externalized and placed into an object that then needed to be destroyed. Like the heartless giant's heart being in an egg in the nest of a duck in the bottom of a well that was in a church on an island very far away. On the other hand pretty much every myth about shadows either has the shadow representing a soul or being a representation of the self that can be manipulated. Romanian folklore includes stories that damaging a person's shadow would see similar injuries inflicted on the owner. Austrian holiday traditions included the idea that if someone cast a shadow without a head they'd be dead before next Christmas. And Peter Schelmihl and other stories spread the idea that people without shadows had no souls, or would sell their souls. (In his story, Pete sold his shadow to the devil but not his soul, people just -thought- he sold his soul) [/QUOTE]
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