I mean anything like cursed or lucky objects, ghosts, etc?

Figured it’s the spooky season and I don’t know too many people irl to talk to about the supernatural without discovering q-level brainworms.

I’ll comment in the thread with my answer.

  • Magician [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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    I think the distinction comes in the form of how one defends their supernatural belief.

    I believe on some tiny level that magic is real, but I would never attribute something as magic in serious conversation. I’ll immediately do my best to find a rational explanation, and even if I have no better explanation, I would never suggest it was supernatural.

    I’ll call it creepy or weird. I’ll say I don’t know what happened. Like I won’t talk about my beliefs on the afterlife because I don’t want to convince anybody.

    I think supernatural as a term flattens our understanding of the abstract, surreal, or hypothetical. It becomes a tool to stop questioning.