Note 100 — Chapter III · ANIMISM, MAGIC AND THE OMNIPOTENCE OF THOUGHT
A. A. (Abraham Arden) Brill translation
The Biblical prohibition against making an image of anything living hardly sprang from any fundamental rejection of plastic art, but was probably meant to deprive magic, which the Hebraic religion proscribed, of one of its instruments. Frazer, l.c., p. 87, note.