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*** It doesn't follow that because Aang can bend the elements this woman is a fortune teller.
**** No, but Sokka had pretty much said "magic doesn't exist." Given time, he could refine the argument though.
***** Given that Sokka's sister has had magical powers for Sokka's entire life, he cannot possibly deny the existence of the supernatural. On the other hand, just because schools of magic exist for manipulating elemental forces or talking to spirits, that does not necessarily mean they also exist for seeing the future. So yes, it would seem to be bad phrasing on Sokka's part, not bad logic.
* The ''[[South Park]]'' episode "The Biggest Douche In The Universe" had Stan say at the end that John Edward was a fraud and there were plenty of things in the real world that people could be fascinated by. It's a sort of strange message seeing as how the exact same episode featured Kenny's ghost being taken out of Cartman's body. An even weirder example is the episode "Dead Celebrities" where the Ghost Hunters come to look for ghosts and look like complete idiots for believing in ghosts, despite that fact that ghosts existing is the premise of the entire episode.
* An episode of ''[[Fillmore]]'' involves a crime that takes place during the magic act at the school talent show. While working on the case, Fillmore tries to figure how the trick at the finale was done but kid who did the trick keeps shaking his head no. At the end it's implied he really did do the trick through magic.
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