Perhaps the spiritis in the common magic charms originate in the natural world, while the spirits for the animist charms originate in the spirit world. I recall sections of HeroQuest that seem to contradict this notion though -- specifically, the idea that a spirit released from a practice fetish goes to its home in the natural world before returning to the fetish. But, laying aside that little problem of direct contradiction in published materials, it would make sense that a spirit originating in the natural world could change where one from the spirit world could not.
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