...just something I found on the web, from a person who is writing a book.

“I’m writing a book on magic,” I explain, and I am asked, “real magic?”

By real magic people mean miracles, thaumaturical acts, and supernatural powers.

‘No,” I answer: ”Conjuring tricks, not real magic.” 

Real magic, in other words, refers to magic that is not real, while the magic that is real and can actually be done isn’t real magic.