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Fertility Magic

Fertility Magic is a ritual practice, classified within the broader category of sympathetic magic, that specifically aims to enhance the reproductive potential of humans, animals, or crops through symbolic actions believed to influence natural fertility processes.

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The Creative Communion: African Folk Models of Fertility and the Regeneration of Life

Roy Willis, Anita Jacobson‐Widding, Walter van Beek · Man · 1992 · 76 citations

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Ecstasy and Possession: The Attraction of Women to the Cult of Dionysus

Ross Shepard Kraemer · Harvard Theological Review · 1979 · 48 citations

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Expressions of fertility in the rock art of Bantu-speaking agriculturists

F. E. Prins, Sian Hall · African Archaeological Review · 1994 · 47 citations

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Threatened wombs: aspects of ancient uterine magic.

Jean‐Jacques Aubert · PubMed · 1989 · 25 citations · Full text

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Fertility Control and the Birth of the Modern European Fairy-Tale Heroine

Ruth B. Bottigheimer · DigitalCommons - WayneState (Wayne State University) · 2000 · 15 citations

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    Ross Shepard Kraemer

    John Brown University, United States

    1 publications · 48 citations

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    Walter van Beek

    African Studies Centre, Netherlands

    1 publications · 76 citations

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  3. AJ
    Anita Jacobson‐Widding

    Japan External Trade Organization, Japan

    1 publications · 76 citations

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  4. JA
    Jean‐Jacques Aubert

    University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    1 publications · 25 citations

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  5. FE
    F. E. Prins

    University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    1 publications · 47 citations

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  1. Stockton University

    Galloway, United States

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    1 publications

    48 citations

  2. Japan External Trade Organization

    Tokyo, Japan

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    76 citations

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  1. PubMed

    Repository · 1 publications · 25 citations

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  2. Man

    1 publications · 76 citations

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  3. African Archaeological Review

    1 publications · 47 citations

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  4. Harvard Theological Review

    HTR · 1 publications · 48 citations

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  5. DigitalCommons - WayneState (Wayne State University)

    Repository · 1 publications · 15 citations

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