James Frazer claimed all magic runs on two laws: things that resemble each other are connected, and things that have touched each other stay connected. Plot nine real practices on those two axes — several of them from traditions that would never call themselves magical. Then switch to Witchcraft and walk Evans-Pritchard's collapsing granary, the example that showed witchcraft is not a rival to physics but an answer to a question physics never asks: why these people, why now?
Frazer's two laws
Frazer's two laws — tap one to re-read the field by it