ABSTRACT
So far we have been considesing cult or tendance addressed to a more or less definite object, whether god, hero, or ghosi, and such magic as centres around the great crises of individual life. It now remains to ask whether, in the general characteristics of Greek magical practices (in which may be included some of their ritual and most of their divination) much of the primitive lurks; and whether among the many tales that they told of gods, men, and the world at large there is to be found any clear trace of the savage mind still fully alive and working in a characteristic manner.
