Magnetism only feels like magic, because we don't have biological sensors for it
Think about it. Isn't light+eyes and ears+sound just the same in terms of their "influence at a distance"? We don't feel that as abnormal or magic - simply because we've sensors for them and are used to it. But physically speaking light and magnetism are based on electromagnetic forces.
My daughter and her friends are all into ICP and all I can think of is the fact that they're too stupid to understand magnetism and think that no one else understands it either.