Editing Sympathetic magic (section)

==Correspondence==
[[Correspondence (theology)|Correspondence]] is based on the idea that one can influence something based on its relationship or resemblance to another thing. Many popular beliefs regarding properties of plants, fruits, and vegetables have evolved in the [[traditional medicine|folk-medicine]] of different societies owing to sympathetic magic. This include beliefs that certain herbs with [[yellow]] sap can cure [[jaundice]], that [[walnut]]s could strengthen the brain because of the nuts' resemblance to brain, that [[red beet]] juice is good for the blood, that phallic-shaped roots will cure [[male impotence]], etc;<ref>{{Cite book | last = Harrison| first = Regina | title = Signs, songs, and memory in the Andes: translating Quechua language and culture| publisher = [[University of Texas Press]]| year = 1989| page = [https://archive.org/details/signssongsmemory0000harr/page/178 178]| url = https://archive.org/details/signssongsmemory0000harr | url-access = registration| isbn = 978-0-292-77627-2}}</ref> many of these fall under the [[Doctrine of Signatures]].

Many traditional societies believed that an effect on one object can cause an analogous effect on another object, without an apparent causal link between the two objects. For instance, many folktales feature a villain whose "life" exists in another object, and who can only be killed if that other object is destroyed, as in the [[Russian folktale]] of [[Koschei the Deathless]]. For literary versions, see [[horcrux|horcruxes]] in the [[Harry Potter]] books; the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] term [[lich]] has become common in recent [[fantasy literature]]. [[Mircea Eliade]] wrote that in [[Uganda]], a [[barren woman]] is thought to cause a barren garden, and her husband can seek a divorce on purely economic grounds.<ref name= " Haper & Row - 1976 - A Mircea Eliade Reader - ">{{cite book | author-link = Mircea Eliade | first = Mircea | last = Eliade |title=Myths, Rites, Symbols: A Mircea Eliade Reader|editor1-first =Wendell C | editor1-last = Beane | editor2-first = William G | editor2-last = Doty|publisher=[[Harper & Row]]|location= [[New York City|New York]]| year=1976|page =385|isbn=978-0-06-090510-1|oclc= 2136392}}</ref>

Many societies have been documented as believing that, instead of requiring an image of an individual, influence can be exerted using something that they have touched or used.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Rehabilitation interventions: Ideas based on a South Pacific example|author-last=Gregory|author-first=R. J.| journal=Disability and Rehabilitation|volume=18|issue=1|date=1996|doi=10.3109/09638289609167089|page=48|pmid=8932745}}</ref> Consequently, the inhabitants of [[Tanna (island)|Tanna, Vanuatu]], in the 1970s were cautious when throwing away food or losing a fingernail, as they believed these small scraps of personal items could be used to cast a spell causing fevers. Similarly, an 18th-century compendium of Russian [[Folk Orthodoxy|folk magic]] describes how someone could be influenced through sprinkling cursed salt on a path frequently used by the victim,<ref>{{cite journal|title=Witchcraft and Medicine in Pre-Petrine Russia|author-last=Zguta|author-first=Russell|journal=The Russian Review|volume=37|issue=4|date=1978|page=446|doi=10.2307/128509 |jstor=128509}}</ref> while a 15th-century [[Hwi-bin Kim|crown princess of Joseon Korea]] is recorded as having cut her husband's lovers' shoes into pieces and burnt them.<ref>{{cite book|title=世宗實錄 |trans-title=[[Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty|Veritable Records of Sejong]]|date=1454|url=http://sillok.history.go.kr/search/inspectionMonthList.do?id=kda|volume=45}}</ref>