 By saying that magic was inherently non-social, Mauss had been influenced by the traditional Christian understandings of the concept.Mauss deliberately rejected the intellectualist approach promoted by Frazer, believing that it was inappropriate to restrict the term "magic" to sympathetic magic, as Frazer had done.He expressed the view that "there are not only magical rites which are not sympathetic, but neither is sympathy a prerogative of magic, since there are sympathetic practices in religion".