I know too much to not believe in witches and black magic.
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The Greeks wrote extensively about witches and what they did. There's plenty of first-hand accounts in Medieval times as well.
In short, they were people doing involuntary drug experiments on others. In medieval times, groups of them would get together and experiment with various narcotics. Witches and witchcraft was also heavily involved in necrophilia and cannibalism. Of course today, we know what "bath salts" can do to a man.
In the Bible, the word "sorcery" comes from the Greek word we now call "Pharmacy."
My lvl 60 orc in Skyrim is no joke.
Alchemy was actually fairly advanced chemistry. A lot of the concepts translate almost 1-1 with modern chemistry.
The thing is, though, most people in the ancient and medieval world had no access to good information on alchemy. And the texts we do have are obviously not giving the truth in straight terms. They were trying to obscure certain things from the general public and other alchemists.
MOST were simply trying to understand the true nature of the world. They were isolating compounds and creating repeatable results.
You cannot deny the people who wasted their lives trying to find pure essences laid the groundwork for modern chemistry.