principle that any two objects that were once in contact will maintain an invisible connection unless it is deliberately broken ― purported ability to receive mental images of a past event by touching an object associated with the event Sigil – magical symbol, often representing a deity, a spirit, or the desired outcome of the spell References Bibliography (reprint of the 1954 Phaidon Verlag edition) Thackeray, J.F. 2005. The wounded roan: a contribution to the relation of hunting and trance in southern African rock art. Antiquity 79:5-18. Thackeray, J.F. 2005. Eland, hunters and concepts of ‘sympathetic control’ expressed in southern African rock art. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 15,1:27-34. Thackeray, J.F. & Le Quellec, J.-L. 2007. A symbolically wounded therianthrope at Melikane Rock Shelter, Lesotho. http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/thackeray1/index.html Thackeray, J.F. 2013. The principle of “sympathetic magic” in the context of hunting, trance and southern African rock art. The Digging Stick 30 (1), 1-4. External links . . . Anthropology Anthropology of religion Magic (supernatural) Talismans