Belief in Magic and Witchcraft as “Logical and Common-sense”“If, as eminent p
Belief in Magic and Witchcraft as “Logical and Common-sense”“If, as eminent psychical researchers now postulate (and as many of them believe), there are active and intelligent disembodied beings able to act psychically upon embodied men in much the same way that embodied men are known ordinarily to act psychically upon one another, then there is every logical and common-sense reason for extending this psychical hypothesis so as to include the ancient, medieval, and modern theory of magic and witchcraft.”-W. Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (1911)I’ve said it before, but with this quote I feel that I have to say it again. This was part of an Oxford doctoral thesis awarded in 1909. What happened in the last century? -- source link
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