imo yes but thats subjective.
If you are religious you pray to something higher that it may shift fate a bit in your favour, make you bear your sins and being an icon of morality for you to relie on.
Magic used to be interwoven with that but even the roman intellectuals who were a very superstituous people themselves often argued whether stuff like oracles and direct questioning of the gods via the means of casting lots wouldnt be a bit too vain to assume having an impact. In the end, you expect something to happen because you demand it, why should the demand be met?
That comes from a time were we didnt know that much about the world and could fill the unknown with much more paranormal then there is to it. Whatever lower spiritism there is with which you seek to conjure ghosts to do stuff or do a ritual to influence someone else or see in the future it usually often only descends into vodoo niggery were communities get poisoned by paranoia that someone else might cast a lot against you or bogged down in loosing the trust in their own abilities as everthing must or can be divinated.
So..
For what purpose?