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Another book I'll have to buy!!I always thought that black magic was essentially the magic that messed up the practitioner. You know, like the classic necromancy trope like the ouija board that ends up with a schizoid person with a religious background going all Linda Blair because they think they have it coming. Magic is an art of the mind, and not the rational mind, consequently there are plenty of people who aren't right in the head or happy in their own shoes who tend to find their neuroses chewing them a new one when they become practitioners. In many ways you can read Wu Cheng'en's Journey to the West as an allegory for dealing with one's personal demons, and that is a theme in Buddhism that most people miss.
I had a friend a long time ago who didn't necessarily believe in magick but told me that he once put a curse on someone he hated and who was being nasty to others and that the person went onto killing themselves.
I don't like magick where you use it against others and particularly in a horrible way.