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The concept of magical thinking is perhaps best exemplified by what we commonly call superstition, as described by Scientific American: A statement about the yin and yang of magical thinking is frequently shared online, attributed to either author Lewis Carroll (the pen name of Charles Dodgson) or the most famous of his literary works, Alice in Wonderland (i.e., Alice's Adventures in Wonderland): However, the phrase Everyone wants a magical solution for their problem, and everyone refuses to believe in magic does not appear in any of Carroll/Dodgson's published works (either literary or non-fiction) or papers, nor was it contemporaneously recorded as something he once said. This quote actually stemmed from a Carroll-inspired character who appeared in a modern television series. Once Upon a Time, which originally aired on ABC from 2011 to 2018, was a fantasy series about a young woman [who] is drawn to a small Maine town and discovers that it's filled with elements of the fairy tale world. One of the characters who popped up in that series, Jefferson, was clearly based on Carroll's famous Mad Hatter (from his Alice books), and in the episode Hat Trick (S1E17, original airdate March 25, 2012), Jefferson delivered the line in question during a debate with Emma Swan about the difference between reality and imagination:
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