It may also be used to drive away evil by creating a representation of that evil and then doing something to it to destroy or send it away. Sympathetic magic is based on the principle of "like producing like." For instance, in voodoo this would take the form of a voodoo doll representing someone whom the user wishes to harm by placing pins into the doll with the expectation of causing pain and/or death to that person. Thaumaturgy is associated with miracle working that rises above the laws governing the physical nature of reality and is most notably found in such practices as giving blessings, performing magical healing, and in curses designed to bring harm to another. Magic is practiced in many different forms including thaumaturgy, sympathetic magic, and divination. Over the thousands of years that magic has been evolving it has taken on many different forms, including shamanistic magic, which involves leaving the body and communing with otherworldly spirits and teachers tribal magic, which is practiced by more primitive cultures to influence spirits associated with the tribal group and to counter evil sorcery directed at them voodoo, a mix of West African religions, Christianity, and local beliefs present in the West Indies at the time of the slave trade witchcraft, originated as a synthesis of various folk religious practices and mythologies from the Middle Ages and Satanism, the worship of the devil. In the process of exploring and explaining their world, people began to evolve a primitive science, which would eventually lead to a greater understanding of astronomy, medicine, chemistry, and other natural sciences. Efforts to explain the world's mysteries, and to find ways to control at least some of them, gave rise to many magical practices and rituals to manipulate the weather, the movement of animals, fertility, illness, death, and other seemingly uncontrollable forces. These must have seemed mysterious and controlled by unknown, powerful forces. The world, the sky, the stars and planets, birth, illness, and death were but a few of the many things that puzzled early humans. It evolved out of a need to explain and control an environment that was often hostile and deadly. Magic has probably been practiced since the beginning of recorded history.
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