Prince of Spires
Istar
Skip.Knox has taught me to ask "which ancient world?" when statements like this are madeMagic in the ancient world was forbidden.
I visited Yper (in Belgium) last year, and there I was told that the cloth weavers guild (which was the largest and most powerful guild in the city) was considered to have magic for a large part of their existence, which explained how they got their high quality cloth. And they even had a ritual where they threw 3 black cats off their belltower every three years to protect them against black magic.In the Middle Ages, magic covers a wide range of practices, but by 1100 or so the usual stance was that magic did not exist.
Not sure how much of that was a real belief or not (though the throwing of cats part at least is well documented...).