And I think the key term is USED to. And they stopped doing so over 200 years ago, because they discovered that there's no such thing as magic except in the minds of ignorant, superstitious nut jobs.

literal people are scary, man, literal people scare me
out there trying to rid the world of its poetry while getting it wrong fundamentally down at the church of "look,it sez right here, see!" Ani Difranco