Black magic
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Black magic, sometimes dark magic, traditionally refers to the use of magic or supernatural powers for evil and selfish purposes.
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Heptameron magic circle
Malleus Maleficarum, 1669 edition
Witchcraft
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Witchcraft is the use of magic by a person called a witch. Traditionally, "witchcraft" means the use of magic to inflict supernatural harm or misfortune on others, and this remains the most common and
Black magic
…black magic, this practice is distinct from the worship or deification of such spiritual beings. The two are usually combined in medieval beliefs about witchcraft. It is the malevolent counterpart of white magic. The first known appearance of "black magic" in English is Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene…
Depiction of witchcraft in John William Waterhouse's painting The Magic Circle (1886)
The Witches by Hans Baldung (woodcut), 1508
Preparation for the Witches' Sabbath by David Teniers the Younger. It shows a witch brewing a potion overlooked by her familiar spirit or a demon; items on the floor for casting a spell; and another witch reading from a grimoire while anointing the buttocks of a young witch about to fly upon an inverted besom.
Diorama of a cunning woman or wise woman in the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic