"It is always society that pays itself in the counterfeit money of its dreams.”

#MarcelMauss #HenriHubert “Mana and Magic”

“The belief of all, faith, is the effect of the need of all, of their unanimous desires. Magical judgment is the object of a social consent, the translation of a social need… It is because the effect desired by all is witnessed by all that the means are acknowledged as apt to produce the effect. It is because they desired the healing of the feverish patients that sprinklings of cold water and sympathetic contact with a frog seemed to the Hindus who called on the Brahmins of the Atharva-veda sufficient antagonists to third- or fourth- degree fever. In short, it is always society that pays itself in the counterfeit money of its dreams.”

#MarcelMauss #HenriHubert “Mana and Magic”