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Example sentences for "black magic"

  • Thus the Kagoro of Northern Nigeria refuse to believe in death from natural causes; all illnesses and deaths, in their opinion, are brought about by black magic, however old and decrepit the deceased may have been.

  • By some of the more advanced processes of black magic, also, artificial elementals of great power may be called into existence, and much evil has been worked in various ways by such entities.

  • The stories which follow, like several of the preceding, are mostly told by Jannsen, and deal with various forms of black magic.

  • This was the cult of Satanism, or black magic.

  • Suffice it, then, to show that this cult had a very real existence, and if any further doubt remains on the matter, the life of Gilles de Rais supplies documentary evidence of the visible results of black magic in the Middle Ages.

  • According to Eliphas Lévi, certain of the Gnostics introduced into their rites that profanation of Christian mysteries which was to form the basis of black magic in the Middle Ages.

  • Mediaeval ceremonial magic was subdivided into three chief branches--White Magic, Black Magic, and Necromancy.

  • Goety, or black magic, was concerned with the evocation of demons and devils--spirits supposed to be superior to man in certain powers, but utterly depraved.

  • There's no such thing as black magic," I said.

  • Then the idea must be black magic," he said.

  • As to black magic, it seemed hardly worth while to enact severe laws, when charms, amulets, and even gestures could thwart its worst machinations.

  • Black magic" with its Satanic machinery vanished, only reappearing occasionally among marvel-mongers and belated theologians.

  • I do not believe that she #could# practice it, even if she wanted to--I do not believe in black magic.

  • Some said he was an adept in black magic, accustomed to call up the shade of his lost wife from the lower world.

  • Surely there's black magic still in that?

  • There is black magic somewhere at the bottom of this.

  • Black magic," repeated Flambeau in a low voice, for he was too enlightened a man not to know of such things; "but what can these other things mean?

  • Laird Duncan used his wheelchair as an excuse, but since he had taken up black magic as a hobby he had, she suspected, been actually afraid to go anywhere near a church.

  • Master Sean assures me, and I am certain that you will concur, that a man killed by sorcery, by black magic, dies of internal malfunction, not of a bullet through the heart.

  • Black magic is a matter of symbolism and intent.

  • Sir Charles had been a great friend of the first Lord Lytton, the novelist, and they had together dabbled in Black Magic.

  • Of this there is every possibility, since many Atlanteans undoubtedly escaped to Ireland, carrying with them the knowledge of Black Magic--to which might be traced the Banshee and other family ghosts.

  • Of all things in the world, she dreaded cancer most, and after the many evidences Hamar had given her of his skill in Black Magic, she did not doubt for one instant that he could, immediately he chose, carry out his threat.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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