How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"No doctors, only in Harenton, just like it is now. But there was the Mound. I was over there that day with her. We'd just got back here, Jones and I, and she was my neighbor. I liked her. I'd heard the tales of their power, but I paid no attention. Until farmer come running up all covered with blood. The child, so white and blood so much on his leg, you couldn't see it. And she—"
"Who?" M.C. said.
"Viola Killburn," Banina said. "Why, she simply took the child and arranged him on the ground. He appeared death-still. She didn't touch the wound gushing blood all over. But move her hand over it like searching for something above it in the air. All of a sudden, the hand stop and tremble like over a hump and then move slowly the length of the wound curve.
"Vi had her eyes on that wound in the strangest look I never will ever forget. Only her lips move. Secret prayers of the Bible, they say, but I don't know," Banina said. "I know this. The blood gushing away that child's lifetime clotted all in a minute. The wound ceased to flow. It turned gray and darker. It heal." (7.53-56)
If that's not magic, then we don't know what is. How does this fit into your general assessment of magic in the book? Does it throw a wrench in your thinking or does it support your hunch that magic is real?