(urth) S&S vs. SF in BotNS

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

Jerry Friedman wrote:

> To me, goety and theurgy are only one branch of magic.
> Another is the kind that works by sympathy and contagion,
> such as sticking pins in dolls or keeping one's accidental
> cut from being infected by cleaning the knife that caused it.....

Exactly so. The big distinction is between magia, the application of
natural laws like sympathy and contagion; and goetia, dealings with
supernatural powers. Some years ago I wrote a mini essay on this for a
friend who was defending the Harry Potter books for her church:
http://www.molthagen.de/kerstin/buecher/hp_anleit_ddo.html



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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes