I don't believe in the least in anything supernatural, but I can quite believe that there are many natural laws of which at present we are entirely ignorant.

I believe the knowledge of them at one time existed, but has been entirely lost, at any rate among Western peoples.

The belief in magic is as old as anything we have knowledge of.

The magicians at the court of Pharaoh threw down their rods and turned them into serpents.

The Witch of Endor called up the spirit of Samuel.