Believe in magic or not, just look around and you'll see how many totems civilian people had set around the world. And after that all mocking talks about magic and people's beliefs would be honestly admitted ridiculous. Just look at all our monuments, steles and memorials… If we believe that flowers, toys and other memory things can really calm our grief or save our memory that is help us, how can we say that totems, idols and other religious power places which so many people consider magical are just a frivolous fantasy. 

Just look at these photos below and think about how much work, energy and soul were invested just in simple wooden totems. Wasn't it magic?