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Magic

"It's not the Force, it's magic!"

Magic was a catchall term referring to any of a number of supernatural techniques outside of conventional Force powers.

1 Overview
2 Behind the scenes
3 See also
4 Appearances
- 4.1 Non-canon appearances
5 Sources
- 5.1 In other languages

OverviewEdit

The exact nature of magic remains in dispute among philosophers, as does its relationship to the Force proper. It is possible that all "magic" traditions were simply different methods of accessing the same Force, or were emanations of different aspects of it. More so than the Force, magic potency could be trapped in artifacts or locations—but again, this may be just due to different methods of accessing and using the Force.

The term was also sometimes mistakenly used by primitives or less-informed people to refer to the Force powers of mainstream Jedi and Sith, who were likely to be called "wizards" and their abilities attributed to "magic." The Rakata for example referred to Revan's powers as magic, much to the dismay of Revan, who tried to explain the difference to them. Han Solo also referred to Obi-Wan Kenobi's powers as "magic."

Derivatives of the word "magic" and words such as "witch" are terms describing dark side users or powers (Witches of Dathomir, Sith Magic, Sith Alchemy, Morag identified as "Witch," Emperor's Mage) which had almost exclusively negative connotations.

Finally, it referred to the non-supernatural stage trickery of entertainers like Wim Magwit.

Behind the scenesEdit

Fans generally attribute textual references to "magic" (and for that matter, supernatural phenomena attributed to religions) as simply different interpretations of the Force. The exclusive use of real life occult terms (witch, mage, prophet, warlock, alchemy, cult) to refer to Sith organizations or entities, creates a parallel between an orthodox religion (the Jedi) and a cult (the dark side).
In Star Wars RPG Force powers have the role of magic spells of traditional fantasy RPGs. The Force repository is comparable to the "mana pool" of fantasy games.
A connection of fantasy magic and the Force has been "attempted" during an April Fools' joke which wanted the midichlorians originate from the "planet Andowyne," the fantasy world of Willow.