Folk Magic, Ceremonial Magic,Sympathetic Magic, and Natural Magic.

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Some Types of Magic

There are different types of magic, some common ones are:

• Folk Magic. Includes old superstitions and folk practices and continues to have power today. Examples include tossing salt over your shoulder or burying a statue of St. Joseph upside down in your yard to speed the sale of your house.
  
• Ceremonial Magic. Entails performing rituals using specific props and speaking elaborate words. This is also known as High Magic.
  
• Sympathetic Magic. The use of objects that represent your desired outcome. As part of a spell casting, you might, for example, turn on your shower to make it rain.
  
• Natural Magic. The use of herbs, crystals and candles to direct energy. This type of magic incorporates the Sun, Moon and planets.

Fundamental to the philosophy of these types of magic is the concept that anything occurring naturally on Earth – human, plant, animal, stone, metal or element – is alive according to magical definition. Anything that radiates magical power in any degree is perceived to be alive.

The manner in which different entities are alive, however, is not identical. A stone, for example, is alive in a different way than an animal. Those things that lack life – plastic bottles and mass-produced goods, for example – contain no power, and so are of little value in the practice of magic."

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