a plant Origin History i
ntroduces us to an
important variety of magic, one to
put alongside Frazer's double-layered
sympathetic magic of Similarity a
nd Contact. For now we see that cha
Want to learn the history of nting or w
hispering or simply just thinking a th
ing's origin gives
the ritualist p
ower over it. But let us not forget that here too it is necessary to make
al, toneful,
simulacrum, by means of cha
nting over or under one's breat
h the birth-his
tory of the thing in ques
tion. This puts the power
of historicism in a new light. Indeed
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the theme of knowing something's history, in the sense
of its conception and reproduction, i
s basic and ubiquitous to Cuna magic. It is on
e of the meanings of purpa ("soul" and