Yes, and that also tangles up on the whole issue of "good" magic and "bad" magic. There have been instances in Days Gone Past where some powerful person's will being opposed must have been due to the influence of "bad" magic, because otherwise how could that person's will (which was of course the will of God) possibly be thwarted... which in turn breeds witch-hunts because if bad magic is being done then it stands to reason that a bad person must be performing this.
Hm. The dichotomy seems to be leaning towards the idea that Good Magic = COmes From God (call it miracles, or whatever you want to name it) and can therefore sometimes be assumed to come from a purely divine source without human intervention, and Bad Magic = something done by people with the possible help of something supernatural like demons or fairies or the devil or whatever evil avatar holds sway in a given moment. Which, distilled down, seems to imply that good magic is untouched by human hands...
Oof. This could be a whole different can of worms.
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Date: 2008-04-30 12:15 am (UTC)Hm. The dichotomy seems to be leaning towards the idea that Good Magic = COmes From God (call it miracles, or whatever you want to name it) and can therefore sometimes be assumed to come from a purely divine source without human intervention, and Bad Magic = something done by people with the possible help of something supernatural like demons or fairies or the devil or whatever evil avatar holds sway in a given moment. Which, distilled down, seems to imply that good magic is untouched by human hands...
Oof. This could be a whole different can of worms.