According to druid and neopaganist Isaac Bonewits, thaumaturgy is “the use of magic for nonreligious purposes; the art and science of ‘wonder working’; using magic to actually change things in the physical world”.
The origin of the word comes from the greek “thaûma érgon” which could be roughly translated as miracle or marvellous work. Although it sounds like a lighter use of magic, for kind purposes, we see an obscure atmosphere around the practice and believe that the so-called thaumaturges or miracle-workers are defined with much darker shapes.
