Chapter XVII

, p. 418.

[77] There can be no better expression to denote the mutual relation of all these ideas than that used by Frazer to describe one of the typical forms of magic thought, the 'contagion of ideas.' The subjective, psychological process leads the natives to the belief in magical contagion of things.

[78] It will be noted, that this is the third meaning in which the term pokala is used by the natives. (Cf.