O universo da feitiçaria, magia e variantes

Abstract

The following text presents a criticism of terms and concepts from the history of witchcraft, which recognizes not only “magic”, “sorcery”, “witchcraft”. To understand magical acts it is necessary to make a few basic distinctions, as it is known that there will be as many practices as there are cultural systems, and according to the various singularities of the collective mind. Besides, new paths are presented to the contemporary historicist, who privileges the studies of symbolisms, mental representations, magic, myth and kinship, and is thus led to be cautious in relation to general classification systems or anthropological syntheses, before any conceptual undertaking.