Black magic has traditionally referred to the use of supernatural powers

or magic for evil and selfish purposes.

1. An adept is an individual identified as having attained a specific level

of knowledge, skill, or aptitude in doctrines relevant to a particular
author or organization.

2. Various occult organizations have steps in which an initiate may

ascend in their own magical system. Some call these steps degrees
or grades.

3. In some definitions, the Left-Hand Path is equated with

malicious Black magic and the Right-Hand Path with benevolent White
magic.
In more recent definitions, which base themselves on the terms' origins
among Indian Tantra, the Right-Hand Path, or RHP, is seen as a
definition for those magical groups which follow specific ethical codes
and adopt social convention, while the Left-Hand Path adopts the
opposite attitude, espousing the breaking of taboo and the abandoning
of set morality. Some contemporary occultists have stressed that both
paths can be followed by a magical practitioner, as essentially they
have the same goals.

4. In parapsychology and spiritual practice, an aura is a field of subtle,

luminous radiation surrounding a person or object like
the halo or aureola in religious art. The depiction of such an aura often
connotes a person of particular power or holiness. It is said that all
objects and all living things manifest such an aura. Often it is held to
be perceptible, whether spontaneously or with practice: such
perception is at times linked with the third eye of Indian
spirituality. Various writers associate various personality traits with the
colors of different layers of the aura. It has also been described as a
map of the thoughts and feelings surrounding a person

5. Automatic writing or psychography is an alleged psychic

ability allowing a person to produce written words without consciously

writing. The words are claimed to arise from a subconscious, spiritual

or supernatural source

6. In Ceremonial magic, banishing refers to one or more rituals intended

to remove non-physical influences ranging from spirits to negative
influences. Although banishing rituals are often used as components of
more complex ceremonies, they can also be performed by themselves.

7. In Wicca the boline (also spelled bolline, pr: bow-leen) is a whitehandled ritual knife, one of several magical tools used in Wicca, mainly
for the cutting of herbs and inscribing candles.

8. Cannibalism (from Canbales, the Spanish name for the Caribs, a West
Indies tribe that formerly practiced cannibalism) is the act or practice
of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings. It
is also called anthropophagy. A person who practices cannibalism is
called a cannibal.

9. In its modern usage the term catamite refers to a boy as the passive
or receiving partner in anal intercourse with a man

10.

A coven or covan is a gathering of witches.

11.
A curse (also called a jinx, hex or execration) is any
expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or
attach to some other entityone or more persons, a place, or an
object. In particular, "curse" may refer to a wish that harm or hurt will
be inflicted by any supernatural powers, such as a spell, a prayer, an
imprecation, an execration, magic, witchcraft, God, a natural force, or
a spirit. In many belief systems, the curse itself (or
accompanying ritual) is considered to have some causative force in the
result. To reverse or eliminate a curse is called removal or breaking,
and is often believed to require equally elaborate rituals or prayers.

12.
Trance denotes any state of awareness or consciousness other
than normal waking consciousness. Trance states may occur
involuntarily and unbidden.
Trance in its modern meaning comes from an earlier meaning of "a
dazed, half-conscious or insensible condition or state of fear", via the
Old French transe "fear of evil", from the Latin transre "to cross", "pass
over". This definition is now obsolete.

13.
Sex magic is any type of sexual activity used
in magical, ritualistic or otherwise religious and spiritual pursuits. One
practice of sex magic is using the energy of sexual arousal or orgasm
with visualization of a desired result. A premise of sex magic is the
concept that sexual energy is a potent force that can be harnessed
to transcend one's normally perceived reality

14.
Scrying (also called seeing or peeping) is the practice of
looking into a translucent ball or other material with the belief that
things can be seen, such as spiritual visions, and less often for
purposes of divination or fortune-telling. The most common media
used are reflective, translucent, or luminescent substances such as
crystals, stones, glass, mirrors, water, fire, or smoke. Scrying has been
used in many cultures in the belief that it can divine the past, present,
or future. The visions that come when one stares into the media are
thought to come from one's subconscious and imagination, though in
the past they were thought to come from gods, spirits, devils,
the psychic mind, depending on the culture and practice.
Although scrying is most commonly done with a crystal ball, it may
also be performed using any smooth surface, such as a bowl of liquid,
a pond, or a crystal.

15.
The best-known type of magical practice is the spell,
a ritualistic formula intended to bring about a specific effect. Spells are
often spoken or written or physically constructed using a particular set
of ingredients. The failure of a spell to work may be attributed to many
causes, such as a failure to follow the exact formula, to the general
circumstances being unconducive, to a lack of magical ability, to a lack
of willpower or to fraud.

16.
Another well-known magical practice is divination, which seeks
to reveal information about the past, present or future. Varieties of
divination
include: astrology, augury,cartomancy, chiromancy, dowsing, extispicy,
fortune telling, geomancy, I Ching, omens, scrying, and tarot reading.
a. An omen (also called portent or presage) is a phenomenon that is
believed to foretell the future, often signifying the advent of
change. People in the ancient times believed that omens lie with a
divine message from their gods.
These omens include natural phenomena for example an eclipse,
freak births of animals and humans and behavior of the sacrificial
lamb on its way to the slaughter. They had specialists, the diviners,
to interpret these omens. They would also use an artificial method,
for example, a clay model of a sheep liver, to communicate with
their gods in times of crisis. They would expect a binary answer,
either yes or no answer, favorable or unfavorable. They did these to
predict what would happen in the future and to take action to avoid
disaster.
Though the word "omen" is usually devoid of reference to the
change's nature, hence being possibly either "good" or "bad," the
term is more often used in a foreboding sense, as with the word
"ominous". The origin of the word is unknown, although it may be
connected with the Latin word audire, meaning "to hear.

b. In Classical Antiquity, an oracle was a person or agency considered

to provide wise counsel or prophetic predictions or precognition of
the future, inspired by the gods. As such it is a form of divination.
Oracles were thought to be portals through which the gods spoke
directly to people. In this sense they were different from seers
(manteis, ) who interpreted signs sent by the gods through
bird signs, animal entrails, and other various methods

17.
Necromancy is a practice which claims to involve the
summoning of, and conversation with, spirits of the dead. This is

sometimes done simply to commune with deceased loved ones; it can

also be done to gain information from the spirits, as a type of
divination; or to command the aid of those spirits in accomplishing
some goal, as part of casting a spell.

18.
Maleficium is a Latin term meaning "wrongdoing" or
"mischief", and is used to describe malevolent, dangerous, or
harmful magic, "evildoing," or "malevolent sorcery." In general, the
term applies to any magical act intended to cause harm or death to
people or property. Maleficium can involve the act of poisoning or
drugging someone, and is often used in witchcraft and necromancy.

19.
A sance /se.ns/ or seance is an attempt to communicate
with spirits. The word "sance" comes from the French word for "seat,"
"session" or "sitting," from the Old French "seoir," "to sit." In French,
the word's meaning is quite general: one may, for example, speak of
"une sance de cinma" ("a movie session"). In English, however, the
word came to be used specifically for a meeting of people who are
gathered to receive messages from spirits or to listen to a spirit
medium discourse with or relay messages from spirits; many people,
including skeptics and non-believers, treat it as a form of
entertainment. In modern English usage, participants need not be
seated while engaged in a sance.

20.
Mediumship is the practice of certain peopleknown as
mediumsto purportedly mediate communication between spirits of
the dead and living human beings
a. the ouija (/wid/ WEE-j), also known as a spirit
board or talking board, is a flat board marked with the letters of
the alphabet, the numbers 09, the words "yes", "no", "hello"
(occasionally), and "goodbye", along with various symbols and
graphics. It uses a planchette (small heart-shaped piece of wood or
plastic) as a movable indicator to indicate the spirit's message by
spelling it out on the board during a sance. Participants place their
fingers on the planchette, and it is moved about the board to spell
out words. "Ouija" has become a trademark that is often used
generically to refer to any talking board.

21.
Mojo /modo/, in the African-American folk belief
called hoodoo, is an amulet consisting of a flannel bag containing one
or more magical items. It is a "prayer in a bag", or a spell that can be
carried with or on the host's body.

22.
Mutilation or maiming is an act of physical injury that
degrades the appearance or function of any living body.
Some ethnic groups practice ritual mutilation,
e.g. scarification, burning, flagellation, tattooing, or wheeling, as part
of a rite of passage. In some cases, the term may apply to treatment of
dead bodies, such as soldiers mutilated after they have been killed by
an enemy.

23.
The law of contagion is a folk belief axiom found in magical
thinking which suggests that, once two people or objects have been in
contact, a magical link persists between them unless or until a
formal exorcism or other act of banishing breaks the non-material
bond.
According to this idea, the law of contagion has both dangers and
benefits. On the good side, the holiness of a saint, god or other
venerated figure confers benefits to relics, as
do temples and churches, by virtue of their having religious rituals
conducted within them.
On the bad side, this means that, according to the belief system of
many cultures, a sorcerer or witch might acquire a lock of hair, nail
clipping or scrap of clothing in order to facilitate a curse. Voodoo
dolls resemble the victim and often incorporate hair or clothing from
them. Cultures that believe in sorcery therefore often exercise care
that their hair or nails do not end up in the hands of sorcerers.
Psychics and mediums commonly utilize an object once owned by a
missing or deceased subject as their "focus" for
psychometry or clairvoyance or during sances.

24.
An invocation (from the Latin verb invocare "to call on, invoke,
to give") may take the form of:

Supplication, prayer or spell.

A form of possession.

Command or conjuration.

Self-identification with certain spirits.

25.
A grimoire /rmwr/ is a textbook of magic. Such books
typically include instructions on how to create magical objects
like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms
and divination and also how to summon or invoke supernatural entities
such as angels, spirits, and demons.[1] In many cases, the books
themselves are also believed to be imbued with magical powers,
though in many cultures, other sacred texts that are not grimoires,
such as the Bible, have also been believed to have supernatural
properties intrinsically; in this manner while all books on magic could
be thought of as grimoires, not all magical books should.

SOURCES:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_occult_terms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_magic

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