If you thought you were outside the realm of magic, think again.
There has been "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" on television, for instance, with magic books central to some of the plots. When the program was popular, Owen Davies used to get e-mails from teenage girls asking about specifics of casting spells. "They had seen my personal website," writes Davies, "presenting my historical studies on witchcraft and magic and assumed I was a practitioner."
Who knows if some of those inquiries were from
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