black magic
Americannoun
noun
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He resorts to black magic to bring Brunhilda out of her grave, as beautiful as ever yet strangely distant and cold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The musicians metamorphosed into their final form: Adopting the name Black Sabbath, after a low-budget Boris Karloff film of the same name, they started writing lyrics that dabbled in death, black magic and mental illness.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025
But nothing could recapture that old black magic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2023
“Could it be a genie, could be black magic? We’ll never know.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 15, 2023
His eyes reminded me of a description of a gigantic Egyptian eye that was found in one of the pyramids I read about in a book on black magic.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
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