you need to have a mechanical, secular understanding of science, which is a fairly new concept. Unfortunately, by the time that kind of awareness developed, magic had become a "thing of Satan" in Western culture, so I suspect (though I have no proof) that you would find a huge time gap where "arcane" magic disappeared from popular awareness until very recently, well within the last century, when it began making a comeback.
However, as mentioned, that concept of magic as merely channeling the power of evil spirits and pagan gods, is largely a misinterpretation of how ancient cultures thought of magic. It was often very similar to religion, in the sense that it had the same kinds of rites and writings, which is probably why it became so easyof the spiritual world. In fact, in the Norse' minds, it was the other way around: the power of the gods like Odin and Frigga came from their use of magic -- the same kind of magic that mortals used. Of course, Odin was far more powerful than any human, but the women (it was mostly woman -- magic use was considered a primarily feminine pursuit) would gather together in large groups, often entire villages, to provide their spiritual essence to power magic.
As with the Greeks, seidr magic was closely associated with religion, though they were separate things. The mediums that practiced seidr used it to send their spirit throughout the Nine Realms of Norse mythology. They used their magic for more mudane uses, both good (predicting weather,