Quiz: What's the word for this?

by DavidO

Posted: 15 years ago 26 replies

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Here's a challenge for all you armchair academics. It may seem trivial but I'm trying to write an article and a lack of the right word is driving me crazy!

I've tried Googling but I can't come up with the right word string to trigger a correct response.

What is the belief called when a literal cause and effect for something is assumed? For example, by eating part of a lion you will acquire its ferocity. Or eating a bull's testicles will make you really macho. It's a primitive sort of belief system.

I know there's a word for this. I'm thinking pantheism but I've checked and that's not right.

No prize but self-satisfaction for the one who comes up with the answer!

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Killer Joe 15 years ago

Superstition.

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Roger Mayne 15 years ago

Is it myth?
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DavidO 15 years ago

It's both superstition and myth. I'm thinking of a more technical word but superstition can work in a pinch.
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- Richie Bigrac 15 years ago
  
  Assimilation?
  
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  Sean A McAlister 15 years ago
  
  Inherently
  Intrinsically
  
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  DavidO 15 years ago
  
  Assimilation is the right physical process but I'm thinking of the metaphysical... the belief that you assume the spirit or other characteristics of what you eat: a lion, for instance.
  
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  Peter Bestel 15 years ago
  
  How about "Sympathetic magic".
  
  Don't know whether it would, 'trigger the correct response' but some believe it's what's behind the notions of aphrodisiacs and the like.
  
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Lloyd Buchinski 15 years ago

I can't think of anything better than assumption. I remember about
grade 5 the teacher mentioning some civilization where it was thought
that eating your enemies muscles would make you stronger. I thought
that it was similar to today when people think eating cow muscles will
do the same, ignoring that the cows themselves and elephants are
both vegetarians.
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- Alexa Smith Banned 15 years ago
  
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  Ricter 15 years ago
  
  It's related to animism, but I think I recall a more precise term. Looking for it, but there is (LOL) a lot of commercial crap to wade through on the internet.
  
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stevecl 15 years ago

would it be traits
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DavidO 15 years ago

You're right, Alexa, there's a very specific term. However, both sympathetic magic or magical assimilation, as suggested, could work very well. I can work with this. Thanks everyone!
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Essence 15 years ago

The specific word you're looking for is "animism".
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GrantFreeman 15 years ago

anthropophagy
exophagy
voodooism

Not much help here. I saw cannibalism too but I'm sure that's not what you're looking for.

Paul Myers would be someone to ask about finding the right word.

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getsmartt

15 years ago

Animism is a little broad, it just basically says that everything has a soul.
But, that being said, the best I can come up with is

Omophagia Meaning "Eating-into-the Belly," a Greek ritual of holy communion by eating the flesh of sacrificial victims, human or animal. (see Sacrifice) This custom goes back to primitive tradition when worshippers would tear apart the victims with their hands and teeth as supposedly happened in the earliest cults of Dionysus, Opheus, Ziagreus, and other gods torn apart in their myths. "The communicants rushed madly upon the sacrificial animal, tore it to pieces and ate it raw, believing that the god was resident in the offering...It was believed thus there took place an identification with the god himself, together with a participation in his substance and qualities."

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Zachary R. Skinner 15 years ago

carnivorous spirituality
voracious virility

Not sure if thats what you're looking for but those sure do sound neat.
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- blokh 15 years ago
  
  Misconception - Since it is a belief, and not a fact that has been proven!
  
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rosetrees 15 years ago

contagion?
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Premium Web Content 15 years ago

Attribution? Transference? Homeopoetic understanding?

Now, I'm bothered too.
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- Lance K 15 years ago
  
  How about "Morph"?
  
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  TE2 15 years ago
  
  Snake-Oil
  
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rosetrees 15 years ago

Not the answer to the question, but a "believer"?
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Monetize 15 years ago

Is it osmosis?
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- TJ Kazunga 15 years ago
  
  what about "totemic"
  
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  Ricter 15 years ago
  
  Still looking. I think I might now email an old college buddy who's a professor of anthropology. Good chance to get caught up.
  
  Fascinating little journey. Necessary beliefs here are animism and sympathetic magic. It's interesting the obvious connections with The Secret, and all that business, which appears to be a form of sympathetic magic. Have to think about that.
  
  There's a temptation to coin a word with Latin or Greek roots, like "animasynthesis", lol.
  
  Thanks to the OP for a fun exercise!
  
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