Patrix,
I would not expect this to be a forum where the conventions of "the overwhelming majority" would hold much weight. I am doing my best to reclaim language from its modern corruptions and to give these words back their historical context, so that their origins and thus full meaning will remain intact.
When and why did the conventional understanding of the word change after all? Well I would attribute it directly to the works of the very people I am claiming as "magicians" who saturated the public's ears with phrases like "The Magical World of Walt Disney" with the association that the word "magic" was to have no more significance than a vague feeling that his creations were very special and exciting.
Wouldn't that be rather convenient to their purposes to disarm the public's fear that they might be falling under the influence of magic while simultaneously revealing this to them hidden in plain sight? Haven't we seen this same move played by this same hand over and over again?