Why is magic being practiced?

Answer 1

Well this should be fun now there are a few reasons magic, is being practiced.

Magic a.k.a(EHSI)is a form of clear energy invisible to the naked eye it's like on a hot day if you have good eyes you can look at the ground on a hot summer day and see energy from the ground when its really hot out side so that's the way magic is you can't see it because it is invisible to the naked eye.

Now magic is part of the universe it is a energy that can be used if you are open mined and your will and mind is Strong enough to use it. Magic can be used for a lot of things from love spells to hex spells with magic you can influence life and as well as people and animals and the sky's because the energy of magic doe's not just effect nature, people,animals, but it can effect everything from life to nature and to the sky's above us all and more. Some people practice magic because they may want to improve there life in some way or to improve someone else life or maybe they practice magic to try to gain some kind of power over life as a hole or over someones else's life who knows why people do what they do but true magic is not what most people are practicing but with true magic you have to have these things in mind to use and master the energy of magic which is:the mathematics,the probability, strong belief in magic,and a strong will and mind,The knowledge of what true magic is and about,and also knowing your mental limits and people practice magic for different reasons but it is not true magic.

The same reason people believe in religion sometimes. To make effective knowledge and control of an otherwise unknowable, uncontrollable situation. You could say magic practice points just beyond sciences explanations ;)

Answer 2

Magic was not "invented" so much as "discovered": Early man noticed a correlation between certain events and often erroneously believed that this implied direct causation.

As an example- if you get up in the morning and put your socks on left foot first and happen to have a bad day, you might begin to think that the order of socks caused the bad day.

If this happens more than once, even by chance, the belief starts to solidify and you have the formation of a superstition. You might then go on to believe that putting your right sock on first that it should cause a good day, since experience generally shows that if you do the opposite, the opposite should happen.

Magic, in general, is just an amalgam of superstitions working (so the practitioner hopes) to cause or prevent some event from occurring. Religion is the same idea, but relying on the intervention of spirits, angels, demons, gods, etc.