# The Golden Bough  ## Metadata - Author: [[James George Frazer]] - Full Title: The Golden Bough - Category: #books ## Highlights - IF we analyse the principles of thought on which magic is based, they will probably be found to resolve themselves into two: first, that like produces like, or that an effect resembles its cause; and, second, that things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. The former principle may be called the Law of Similarity, the latter the Law of Contact or Contagion. ([Location 272](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00PUXEZRQ&location=272))