Much has been written on the fact of corporate personhood, and how this status takes away the legal rights of actual humans. Here is another way of looking at corporate personhood as a kind of magical creation of an artificial being or summoning of a demon. This analogy emphasizes the fact that the act of giving corporations human legal rights is done through the various texts of laws and court decisions. These texts can be seen as a type of incantation that is divorced from material reality.