Talk:Gretel/@comment-3467648-20130628231445/@comment-6192846-20130629004223

Based on what Gammon and Ma say in the booklets, as well as the Sins being labeled as magic with Demons at their source, the Original Sin seems to be Eve's corrupted magic from her evil intentions which her entire body embodied after her death as she burned. Depending on what you consider "tangible", I think it would be more appropriate to say they had great skill with manipulating and splitting magic or magical energy rather than touching something "intangible".

Personally, I think the Series is too steeped in folklore and metaphor to derive too much than the basic idea right now.