Gray magic

According to D. 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.{{cite book |author-link=D. J. Conway |last=Conway |first=D. J. |year=2001 |title=Wicca: The Complete Craft |publisher=Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed |isbn=978-1580910927 |page=43}} Ann Finnin states that many practitioners of gray magic employ the term because of its vagueness, and to avoid having to consider ethical questions.{{cite book |last=Finnin |first=Ann |year=2008 |title=The Forge of Tubal Cain |publisher=Pendraig Publishing |isbn=978-0979616839 |page=100}}

A rather different meaning to the term was given by Robert Cochrane, a British Neopagan 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.{{cite book |author-link=Ronald Hutton |last=Hutton |first=Ronald |year=1999 |title=Triumph of the Moon |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0198207443 |page=315}}

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