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Gray magic, also calledneutral magic, ismagic that is not performed for specifically beneficial reasons, but is also not focused on completely hostile practices.[1][2] It is seen as falling into a continuum betweenwhite andblack magic.
According toD. J. Conway, practitioners of white magic avoid causing any form of harm, even to enact positive outcomes. Gray magic incorporates all the beneficial purposes of white magic but also works towards ridding the world of evils.[3] Ann Finnin states that many practitioners of gray magic employ the term because of its vagueness, and to avoid having to consider ethical questions.[4]
A rather different meaning to the term was given byRobert Cochrane, a BritishNeopagan witch of the 1960s. For Bowers, it was a technique of baffling, bewildering, and mystifying everyone he met to gain power over them; by doing so, he was always more sure about them than they were about him.[5]
The dictionary definition ofgray magic at Wiktionary
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