Is Alchemy a Kind of Magic?

practising alchemy was dangerous, especially if word got out you were good at it. There are lots of stories about how alchemists were locked up by vindictive rulers who wanted to extract their secrets. The only thing worse being a successful alchemistBeing a fraud. Alchemical charlatans playing the noble courts of europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth century for all they were worth. If they were exposed as frauds, they would typically be executed, and often in quite nasty ways.