My personal definition of it was always art.Art is the last legit form and true heir of metaphysics.Because you somehow get to the one single point where you cannot define or explain any longer, you cannot say exactly what and why, but it does enchant you, it does work, have a strong impact that is magic.creativity, utopy, charme, that-what-is-not.
Do Dragons work? Not if you think of them as nature.But they work.It is foul magic... but still magic.Elves and fairies of course work too, but they are not foul magic but pure magic, they're elves and fairies after all!