But because science then, as even now sometimes, was thought by the ignorant to be somehow closely associated with all the powers of evil, it does not follow that then or now the true affinity of science must be with the devil.
Magic and religion, according to the view I would support, belong to the same department of human experience--one of the two great departments, the two worlds, one might almost call them, into which human experience, throughout its whole history, has been divided.
Together they belong to the supernormal world, the _x_-region of experience, the region of mental twilight.
Magic I take to include all bad ways, and religion all good ways, of dealing with the supernormal--bad and good, of course, not as we may happen to judge them, but as the society concerned judges them.
Sometimes, indeed, the people themselves hardly know where to draw the line between the two; and, in that case, the anthropologist cannot well do it for them.

But every primitive society thinks witchcraft bad.

Witchcraft consists in leaguing oneself with supernormal powers of evil in order to effect selfish and anti-social ends.

Witchcraft, then, is genuine magic--black magic of the devil's colour.

On the other hand, every primitive society also distinguishes certain salutary ways of dealing with supernormal powers.