When was magic first discovered? Read inside before you answer.?

Question

I don't mean like magic tricks and stuff. I meant like...paranormal magic. Mystical, paranormal or supernatural. Like, how people in the 14th century believed in magic.

I hope I could explain it to you good. Thanks in advance. =)

It's for a Fantasy/Fiction book!

Helped sorta. I need dates. =/ Thanks though.

Thanks guys. I'll just pick a random number of years ago. ^_^

Answer 1

I think sympathy magic is as old as man. We can see hints of this through prehistoric art, etc.

Answer 2

You are speaking of fire, which was the first Magick. Humans had fire, but only from Lightening fires or kept as magick in wooden carriers. Then in trying to make an implement two hard rocks were struck together and a spark started a fire. Then a person had magick implements and a Magickal ability. We are probably speaking of half a million Years ago.

Much of Magick is Natural, but unknown in usage or implements. As an example, Dowsing will someday become a natural science and no longer MagicK..

Sympathetic Magick, one of the oldest still practiced as Magick, may never be explained.

Answer 3

Read the Book of Enoch,when the bad Elohim came down from the heavens they took women from diffrent villages
and taught them witchcraft and how to use make -up
to beautify the face and give head and everything else women do to entice a man , The angels were way smarter than the people in those day man was still primitive.

Answer 4

Look up ancient Egyptian culture and it's civilization. Much of what is now perceived as "magic" or "satanism" comes from the world's misunderstandings of Egypt's religious past and how Judaism and it's ancient peoples criticized this civilizatiion as "evil." Religions, including satanism perceive "magic," or "supernatural" as being of the devil but in REALITY was nothing more than ACTS shown to the ancients by "beings" not of THIS world, call them "Gods" or "aliens" but none the less "beings" who possessed powers we as humans don't have. To "believe" that we are the ONLY beings in existance in this or any universe is like saying there is but one star in the sky of which we all know is false.

Answer 5

The term "magic" is not that old, historically speaking. It basically depends on what exactly you mean by magic. What we might call magic nowadays would probably have been called religion in ancient times. For instance, people in Ancient Egypt would have belived their priests and kings to able to do mystical things, and the Oracles in Ancient Greece/Rome were believed to be able to predict the future. Is this magic? Maybe. But to them it was spiritual.

Answer 6

from wikipedia:

The belief that influence can be taken on supernatural powers, by prayer, sacrifice or invocation goes back to prehistoric religion, and is consequently present from the earliest records of a cultic nature, including the Egyptian pyramid texts and the Indian Vedas, among which the Atharvaveda in particularly addresses magic in the classical sense, and the position of the Vedic Brahmins, like that of any ancient priesthood, can be compared to that of magicians

there is lots more at the link below.

Answer 7

I do not think it was "discovered" but rather known on the inner side of man. The earliest record of magick/shamanism is a couple million years old. It is a whale bone with the cycles of the female mestrual period in relation to the tide and the moon cycles.

Answer 8

I don't believe it ever was discovered. Back when people were still, like, cavemen, they probably had belief in the supernatural, how else could some things be explained? Still today somethings can't be explained, so......

Answer 9

Check Aleister Crowley´s works, specially "Magick Without Tears" and "Magick in Theory and Practice".

Answer 10

Magic was passed down to mortals when Azazel and his underlings came to earth and lusted for the women of Earth