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that's really not how it works though, ask any practitioner

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technically speaking, using the dog's hair (better would be a tooth, or its blood) is invoking sympathetic magic as trope in a story where you make the dog pay a debt - that absolutely is a mechanism that's consistent in a magical worldview

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using ill-understood chains of causality is how we do most things, including ones with explanations in materialistic world views, you don't get down to an atoms-and-forces level of understanding when you lift a cup of coffee to your lips

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"working with ontologically simple primitives" describes most of what we do, it's too wide a definition

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the original author's issue might be, if they work purely in a materialistic framework, all the magical mechanisms "don't exist" so all those ontological primitives are indeed backed by nothing in their POV