> why exactly did people start to believe drawing something or saying something can actually have any magical effect The Golden Bough (a book written by a turn

> why exactly did people start to believe drawing something or saying something can actually have any magical effect The Golden Bough (a book written by a turn-of-the-century anthropologist) considers questions like this[1]. The third chapter of the first volume discusses the principles of "sympathetic" magic being based in the concepts of similarity and contagion. One thinks immediately of voodoo dolls and garlic. It is perhaps surprising that there is a kind of logic at work here! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough