While it's OK to think that there's pixie-dust driven featuers inside of perl, it's not a good idea to call them magic, since that really does overlap with a feature explicitly called magic. It'd be like thinking of a feature as filehandle or hash, say, which wasn't perl's actual filehandle or hash feature.

Perl's magic feature's definitely less often directly used than many things, but it does exist, so it's best to restrict what you label as magic to what actually is magic. Less confusion in the long run there.