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ACFM Trip 27: Magic

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Is There Any Evidence for Witchcraft?

There are periodic revivals of interest in things like astrology or alchemy, etc. This belief that there must have been something like that which explain witchcraft and there's no evidence for any of that. There is some sort of cultural, there are some cultural historians who see it in those terms. They think that actually the invention of things like cinema and sound recording and telegraphy and telephony are so kind of uncanny. If you can believe television, you can believe anything because he was of the generation who saw television for the first time. That makes sense. It's really only in the modern period, it's really only from the late 19th century.

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