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Concepts related to black magic or described as black magic are a regular feature of books, films and other popular culture. Examples include: The Devil Rides Out (1934) – a novel by Dennis Wheatley – made into a famous film by Hammer Studios in 1968. Rosemary's Baby (1968) – a horror novel in which black magic is a central theme.
Black magic as a category didn't exist in ancient Mesopotamia, and a person legitimately using magic to defend themselves against illegitimate magic would use exactly the same techniques. [4] The only major difference was the fact that curses were enacted in secret; [ 4 ] whereas a defense against sorcery was conducted in the open, in front of ...
Medical magic and protective magic were regarded as helpful, and called ‘white’, while sorcery was considered evil and ‘black’. Distinguishing between black magic and white magic often relied on perspective, for example, if a healer attempted to cure a patient and failed, some would accuse the healer of intentionally harming the patient.
Most societies that have believed in harmful witchcraft or 'black' magic have also believed in helpful or 'white' magic. [ 4 ] : 24-25 In these societies, practitioners of helpful magic provided services such as breaking the effects of witchcraft, healing , divination , finding lost or stolen goods, and love magic .< [ 4 ] : x-xi In Britain ...
Various scholars describe Vodou as one of the world's most maligned and misunderstood religions. [553] Throughout Haitian history, Christians have often presented Vodou as Satanic, [554] while in broader Anglophone and Francophone society it has been widely associated with sorcery, witchcraft, and black magic. [555]
Necromancy (/ ˈ n ɛ k r ə m æ n s i /) [1] [2] is the practice of magic involving communication with the dead by summoning their spirits as apparitions or visions for the purpose of divination; imparting the means to foretell future events and discover hidden knowledge.
The word magic might simply be understood as denoting management of forces, which, as an activity, is not weighted morally and is accordingly a neutral activity from the start of a magical practice, but by the will of the magician, is thought to become and to have an outcome which represents either good or bad (evil).
In September 2013, in the Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh, a woman was murdered and her daughter was raped on the allegation that they were practising black magic. [ 140 ] A 2010 estimate places the number of women killed as witches in India at between 150 and 200 per year, or a total of 2,500 in the period of 1995 to 2009. [ 141 ]