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Hi, everyone. I recognize that the title of this post might sound strange, but it's something I've been thinking about for a while, and wanted to know what others thought.
I was reading on this site, and on other places around the web about how when magic practitioners, or regular people have a strong desire and they pray for it, or cast a spell to make it come to be, it comes in the most unexpected, and sometimes terrible, ways. Myself, I cast a spell to bring new love into my life. Of course, I expected that it would be a person, but what I ended up with was a hobby that is something I'm going to continue for the rest of my life.
So I guess what I'm asking is: does magic have a de facto will of its own? Or could it be considered a deity in and of itself?