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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2380317" data-attributes="member: 19675">Thanks, KM!Magic items of Greek mythology were more often than not the gifts from the gods.  However, Man discovered secrets that were powerful in their own right...the blood of several different mythological monsters was lethal enough to slay even divine beings.Norse mythology distinguished between the powers that the gods gave, and the magical creations of the Dwarves.  In fact, there were items that Dwarves could create that the Asgardians could not...  And Rune magic was a gift from the gods...but the magic of Gems, Herbs and other materials was uncovered by trial and error research, handed down from practitioner to practitioner.Also, look back to Europe's Middle/Dark/Rennaisance...  Magic of the biblical variety was sticks to snakes, driving out demons and devils, healing...Other magic was dark sorcery, gained by making pacts with evil beings.There was also the magic of Man (alchemy), considered a pale imitation of the powers that god granted, but considered by its practitioners to be a reasoned study... indistinguishable from science (to them, at least).Even in African and other mythologies, there are distinctions between the powers of the gods & spirits and the mystical discoveries of man, like sympathetic magic.</blockquote>