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Black Magic
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What does Black Magic mean?
noun
- Magic derived from evil forces, as distinct from good or benign forces; or magic performed with the intention of doing harm.
- (figuratively) A technology, process, etc., that is mysterious, esoteric; anything which appears to be almost magic to those who do not understand it.
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The woman was a dealer in black magic, and who knew but that the child might be a changeling?
Having mastered that coal-stove principle, they are going back to their native hills with black magic up their sleeves.
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I do not believe that she could practice it, even if she wanted to--I do not believe in black magic.
Certainly it would not have gone well with Bell had he lived two centuries earlier and been caught at such black magic.
As to black magic, it seemed hardly worth while to enact severe laws, when charms, amulets, and even gestures could thwart its worst machinations.