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Sympathetic magic, also known as imitative magic, is a type of magic based on imitation or correspondence.
Usage examples of "sympathetic magic".
He controlled dragons for a time, though through sympathetic magic.
But it aligned with Darius' own ability to do sympathetic magic and not emotional magic.
Evidently his sympathetic magic was not well attuned to this Mode.
He started to throw the lint onto the fire, then stopped, remembering his sympathetic magic and what burning the blood might do to Stegoman.
He was half listening to the music (touching the keys of his alto now and again, as if by sympathetic magic to make that natural horn develop the idea differently, some way Sphere thought could be better) and half watching the customers at the tables.
They were sympathetic magic, and that meant he, himself, Smith, was an integral part, not merely the voice-box.