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Black magic   /blæk mˈædʒɪk/   Listen
Black magic

noun
1.
The belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world.  Synonyms: black art, necromancy, sorcery.






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"Black magic" Quotes from Famous Books



... this power is very real, and like any other of the forces of nature may be properly used and applied in our every day life, still many students of the power of the Mind have misused it and have stooped to practices worthy only of the followers of the schools of "Black Magic." We hear on all sides of the use of "treatments" for selfish and often base ends, those following these practices seeming to be in utter ignorance of the occult laws brought into operation, and the terrible reaction inevitably falling to the lot of those practicing this ...
— A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga • Yogi Ramacharaka

... press around the reel. Nothing was visible in the air, now, nothing but a thin piece of wire leading up into the sky. Had no one known that the kites were there, high above the clouds, it would have seemed like black magic. Some of the superstitious negroes ...
— The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men • Francis William Rolt-Wheeler

... man's ear? What sort of a wizard must he be, or ghoul, or madman? And in Salem, too, the home of the witchcraft superstition! Certainly it would not have gone well with Bell had he lived two centuries earlier and been caught at such black magic. ...
— The History of the Telephone • Herbert N. Casson

... him! A thousand reasons, gospodar," cried the man passionately; "he who has this book understands the black magic of Kensky and the Jews! By the mysteries in this book he is able to torment his enemies and bring sorrow to the Christians who oppose him. Did not the man Ivan Nickolovitch throw a stone at him, and did not Ivan drop dead the next day on his ...
— The Book of All-Power • Edgar Wallace

... the keynote of all the debased forms of Gnosticism. According to Eliphas Levi, certain of the Gnostics introduced into their rites that profanation of Christian mysteries which was to form the basis of black magic in the Middle Ages.[111] The glorification of evil, which plays so important a part in the modern revolutionary movement, constituted the creed of the Ophites, who worshipped the Serpent ([Greek: ophis]) because he had revolted ...
— Secret Societies And Subversive Movements • Nesta H. Webster


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