Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist James George Frazer died #OTD in 1941.
He is best known for his influential work "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion," which explores the similarities among magical and religious beliefs across diverse cultures. Frazer proposed that human belief progressed through three stages: primitive magic, replaced by religion, and finally replaced by science.
@gutenberg_org Golden Bough is a fascinating book. It was there that I learned what magic is, and how it is an evolutionary gift from our ancestors.
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