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Therapeutics > Complementary Therapies > Spiritual Therapies > Magic

Preferred term

Magic  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • IM; consider also WITCHCRAFT

Scope note

  • Beliefs and practices concerned with producing desired results through supernatural forces or agents as with the manipulation of fetishes or rituals.

In other languages

  • taikuus

    Finnish

  • magia
  • taikominen
  • Magi

    Swedish

  • Trolldom

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008273

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