[HPforGrownups] ancient magic

[Kendra Grant-Bingham]

No: HPFGUIDX 37220

>~~~~~Grey Wolf wrote:~~~~~
>_ancient_ magic implies that it was used a long time ago (druids, 
>anyone?)~~~~~
>
If you want to get technical, magic goes back to the "First People". Magic 
has been around as long as intelligent people. (although intelligence can 
have many many definitions *S*) If we are to believe any of the 
pre-history theories out there, then we have to know that there were 
Shaman and  "magic men and women" and all manner of "witchdoctor" types 
from the time men could speak and understand each other. In my opinion, 
(well, it's not totally how I see things, but partially so) men began to 
believe in magic when there was something they could not explain, so it 
became "Magic" or "the will of the gods". With evolution came more 
knowledge, and with knowledge (of the scientific kind) magic was poo-pooed 
and pushed to the "back of the bus" so to speak. But, there are still some 
of us who believe that magic exists, and there are some of us who have not 
only witnessed magic but performed it.*S* Some magic IS alchemic but there 
are still things out there that defy explaination, scientific or otherwise.

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Kendra Grant-Bingham
~~~~~Phoenix Moonshadow Wych~~~~~
"Gryffindor House ...where Friendship and Bravery count."

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