“Gotcha.” For all their preaching about open-mindedness, Catskill had noticed that scientists had an occasional stingy-conservative nature about them. If it looked weird but could be used to benefit ponies in some way, scientists seemed to accept it wholeheartedly, while if it looked weird but was just weird, they rejected it. Then again, a fine example of the latter was the belief that water could remember things that had been dissolved in it. Every now and then, the stingy conservatives proved to be right. But magic circles were in the weirder branches of magic that most ponies didn’t like to look at; Amanita had probably gotten unjustly laughed out of some university and still felt shame at the memory of it.