When I first started dating my wife she asked me, "Is magic real?" I was about to quickly answer "no" but I gave it some thought and stopped myself. I then told her, "Magic is real if the person is a magician. Most people claiming to perform magic are merely illusionists though." Magic is the power of projection and must be cooperative. The magician is the dominant one psychologically over the subject. The more faith you have in the magician the more the magic is real.
In a very casual manner I told my cousin, "You will find your mother's third husband at the bottom of a staircase with his head put on backwards." Things happened almost exactly that way and my very Catholic cousin acted weird toward me at the funeral. His faith in good vs evil is too strong. It was no magic. My aunt's 3rd husband was an Irishman who drank too much and I noticed a certain amount of loose carpeting upstairs around where he often guzzled the Chivas Regal. He did fall the stairs while he was drunk but he lived 10 additional days. Several months before he died he was on the way to my house but got stuck in traffic. I told him to turn around and go home. He was within 2 blocks of his house before getting hit with a UPS truck. Again, I did nothing. It's safe to assume I wasn't crazy about the guy or I woulda mentioned the carpeting to someone.