Magic

One topic I have found interesting is magic. Many items can be used during it and seemingly anything, as I have come across, could be used. I have heard of cat hair, frogs, and blood being used but not all magic uses such items. Pins can be used, but not to draw blood or cause harm. Human hair can also be used, but to protect. This is what I find most interesting about magic, the use of items as it can be used to harm or to benefit but it all boils down to what the intent is.


I have heard of people giving magic shades, or colours, to which I am talking about black, white and grey magic, but many people say that magic doesn’t have a colour. Black magic giving the obvious image of it being bad or harmful with the use of such things as voodoo dolls, yet the use of voodoo dolls could be used to protect another person one way or another. White magic is said to benefit oneself or others while grey magic neither to benefit or harm, yet any items that one could be associated with white or grey magic like items associated to black magic could be used for another kind of magic. Due to how an item can be used for white, grey or black magic, even other categories of magic such as rain or sun magic, I came to view magic simply as magic that is either beneficial or non-beneficial.

Intent has to be what, to me, the most important thing in magic. To help or to harm, to do neither or nothing, it is all about what you intent to do with magic. But one should know what oneself is getting into and what they are doing when using magic in itself. There have been stories of people using magic as a threat and even using it to harm others which is truly saddening to hear of, but it is better to know that there is such people in the world then to know not of such things.

Magic has its uses and should be used carefully with wisdom. It is something with great power.