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RE: Burn the Witch!
I believe in magic.
Magic is an artful illusion that cause you to believe something happened that did not really happen.
If the illusion is effective, that is magic. It exists, but it is only an illusion.
To illustrate Scottb's point.
I have read convincing accounts of Australian aboriginal natives who believe in magic that can kill them, and it sometimes does.
As part of their law an offender may be sung to death. The tribe does certain magic chants intended to make the person sicken and die. For those who really believe in the power, it works. There are accounts of native servants living in white man's houses in the nineteenth century dieing like this in spite of good medical treatment.
They even have a law enforcement officer called a "Kaditja Man" he will track and follow an offender until he dies. He uses special body paint and feathered boots so he leaves no tracks, but to the natives he is invisible.
I think lie detectors are modern magic
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