Three students wearing light summer robes and typical American hats laugh in scorching heat of the day outside Mesa Academy in the American West. The magic taught here is different than the magic taught at Salem or several other larger American magical institutes. While Greek- and Latin-based spells are taught here just as in most of the English-speaking world, indigenous branches magic that Spanish colonists once sought to purge still thrives. Indigenous potions, divination, history, and spells have been part of the core curriculum at Mesa for centuries. And for good reason: the land of the American West, vast and sparsely populated as it is, mostly remains saturated with the magic pre-colonial people practiced for millennia. The tough-skinned animals and plants that inhabit it have been soaked in Uto-Aztecan languages (and dozens of others) for so long that they resist and at times out-right reject Indo-European-based spells.
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(Peter Lindbergh for Vogue)
