black magic

Astrology and black magic are forbidden in Islam; not an obscure point and one that Monis likely knew.

Furthermore, by removing them from their post, you create an opportunity for insurgent black magic to materialize a car bomb.

Perhaps La Santa Muerte gives them the confidence to practice some black magic of their own.

Black magic may be harmless fun to you, Lindsay, but stealing is no laughing matter.

As much by mystics as by the Church Catholic, modern black magic may be left to perish of its own corruption.

The hypnotist has shown the vanity and Blake the inutility of willing trifles, and black magic its futility.

This charge of black magic recurs all through the history of Europe from the earliest times.

Having mastered that coal-stove principle, they are going back to their native hills with black magic up their sleeves.

It savoured of the conjuring trick if not of sheer black magic.