Do people really believe magic can happen or does it only happen in religion? I mean the type of things people are normally skeptical about.
What is not easily explainable in one generation can end up being more easily explainable in another generation.Anything in the metaphysical or supernatural realm not easily explainable.
The idea of radio waves, sending information through a pure vacuum, sounds magical. Most of modern physics sounds pretty magical- the deeper one gets into the underlying fabric of things, the weirder it seems to be. Most quantum stuff or relativity stuff sounds magical. The Big Bang sounds pretty magical.