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Magical Realism is a term invented by Franz Roh who developed this post-modern technique in American Literature. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the pioneer of using this term. His debut novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) lays highly on this post-modern technique. It was popularized in Latin American fiction. Paulo Coelho is an eminent writer in Latin-American literature and he used magical realism in all of his novels. The Alchemist has attained the name of the bestselling novel which dominantly has the gist of magical realism through the entire narrative. It's the story of a young boy who runs behind his dreams to find his dream treasure he travels to the Egyptian Pyramid. Coelho's sequel novel Brida is a story of a young girl who curiously needs to learn necromancy. Similarly, Indian Writing in English novels also has post-modern, post-colonial, and new historicism techniques. Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children has this post-modern technique. Manohar Malgonkar's Combat of Shadows (1962) is known as a colonial novel that has a magical realism aspect in one section. Ruby Miranda is the protagonist of the novel and she is an Anglo-Indian girl who once meets a local wizard named Bichwa Baba. This present study aims to focus on how realistic things were turned into magical powers by Baba and his power of healing both the protagonist and her mother.