HUMA 1900 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Christian Discourses, Eastern Canada, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
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Supernatural belief & the vampire of oral tradition. Superstition: a statement of one or more conditions and one or more results with some of the conditions signs and others causes. Ex: if a black cat crosses your path (cause) you will have bad luck (result) Post hoc erg propter hoc: after this therefore because of this. Ex: you fail a test; you blame it on using the wrong pen. Two unrelated events are linked by false causality. Cognitive level: how a person is able to understand and comprehend the belief. Affective level: the texts that distribute the belief. Expressive level: how a person rejects or accepts the belief. Sympathetic magic: based on the notion that the world and the animate and inanimate objects within are interconnected (law of sympathy) Homeopathic magic (law of similarity): like causes like. Contagious magic (law of contact): contact establishes magical connection. Reports of vampire epidemics first found in eastern.
