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means The practice of working magic — spells, charms, and sorcery — traditionally attributed to those who've made a pact with dark or supernatural forces.

from From Old English wiccecræft, a compound of wicce ('witch,' the feminine form, with wicca as the masculine) and cræft ('craft, skill, power' — the same root that gives us 'craft' as in carpentry or 'aircraft'). The deeper root of wicce is debated: it may connect to a Germanic root meaning 'to bend' or 'to work magic,' but scholars stop short of certainty there. What's solid is the architecture of the word itself — it names magic not as mystery but as a skill, a cræft, practiced and honed like any trade.