The makings of the magical mind: The nature and function of sympathetic magical thinking.

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Paranormal beliefs: their dimensionality and correlates (2006, background): “…visitations (Rice, 2003; The National Science Foundation, 2002), astrological forecasts follow the news broadcasts in many countries, such as Italy and Spain, and even some university students suppose that if one ingests a boar one assumes some of its properties (Nemeroff & Rozin, 2000).”
Everyday magical powers: the role of apparent mental causation in the overestimation of personal influence. (2006, background): “Magical Thinking in Everyday Life Belief in the ability to influence events at a distance with no known physical explanation has been termed magical thinking (e.g., Eckblad & Chapman, 1983; Nemeroff & Rozin, 2000; Woolley, 1997; Zusne & Jones, 1989).”
Negativity Bias, Negativity Dominance, and Contagion (2001, unknown): “The basic idea is that when entities contact, "essence" passes between them and leaves a permanent trace ("once in contact, always in contact"; reviewed in Rozin & Nemeroff, 1990; Nemeroff & Rozin, 2000).”