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Princess Foo replied to the topic Is it okay to write about magic? in the forum Research and Worldbuilding 6 years, 8 months ago
@corine Jumping into this discussion, I think the most important thing to avoid potentially encouraging people to sin would be to make it unlike demonic “magic” in this world. Things like blood rituals, human/animal sacrifices, and appealing to a dark patron as the source of the powers. Or, if you have them, you should portray them as wrong.
In this world, we have people claiming to be mediums. You could buy a “spell book” off Amazon that, although I have not actually looked at things like this, I am guessing likely to be interactions with demons. Thats “playing with fire”. Demons and the things they do that look like “magic” should not be messed with.
I think that stories like the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which are about interacting with the devil and gaining power from him, are very harmful and likely to bring people to sin. But something like Harry Potter, which is full of magic but has nothing that easily leads to let-mess-with-demons, is perfectly fine.












