When many people have a hard time admitting something can do *any* harm, there's almost always a group who can't admit that the thing can do *any* good. Both are fixated on the thing being overall-good-valence or overall-bad-valence.
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Charles Taylor argues the opposite (making “magic” one single thing, to be purged, was the weird modern innovation that secularized us)
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definitely not Church prescribed /bad/ magic ie magic not done by their priests Older idea tho, the story of Julnar the Seaborn in Arabian Nights has magicians who are good or bad depending on whether they worship Allah Similar in Grimm'shttps://www.amazon.com/dp/0140137440/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_6yg8Cb3KKQXCJ …
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proscribed whatever v funny to me that I feel the need to correct esoteric spelling errors while deliberately inserting common ones
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i don't think it's ENTIRELY batshit in the weak sense of magic being more neutral historically without a clear "BLACK MAGIC" or "HOLY MAGIC" division. but i definitely bet people saw certain magic ACTS as having been good or bad, rather than the magic itself
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hard to know what sources would get to the fact of the matter - anthropology? primary sources in history? most of the people involved in magic in the relevant times probably aren't literate
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