Magic has many forms all of them share in some fundamental way.
There is magic of the liar
There is magic of the trickster
There is magic of the brainwasher
There is magic of the dark art
The liar is a propagandist, the cunning use of language to throw people into states of deception and the astrologer and soothsayer. The trickster is the stage magician, the Hollywood film maker, the exploiter of optical illusion and practitioner of science in ways that contradict apparent logic to the uninitiated eye or utiliser of scientific phenomena to deceive people. The brainwasher will know how to access the deeper faculties of the mind, utilise hypnotism and repetitive techniques including the lies and tricks to confound the brain to be convinced the lie is in fact a truth, and The dark artist - communes with demons to possess target people, and act upon a contract to sow discord through whatever means the demons know, it is them operating in their own normality which to us may seem like something mysterious or miraculous.
All of the magic form are lies - but that does not mean all of these lies do not have physical realities ... the reality of black magic is as real as hiring a hitman to kill your target, except the hitman is hidden from view. By evading the demonic presence magicians will claim to be initiating whatever they are doing through their own power ... and not the help of the shaitans. This is to clear up any confusion in this matter.
kprasad, Hinduism is based on black magic. The devils Hanuman Kalimata..etc are all part of the magicians' spells. So look in India and see how this disgusting thing is practiced.
I agree with you completely. Ignorance and superstition knows no borders.
I think KKF can answer his own questions ... As for East Bunny and Tooth Fairy ... They are off topic ... We are talking about black magic here ... But I'll amuse you ... No, I don't believe in those two and there is a reason why ... They were invented concepts to serve very specific things for children. Black Magic is a different ball game. Magic has been practiced throughout human history ... With varying degrees of a influence ... The practiced is designed to subdue and there are enough people who claim to have seen its effects and people who still practice it today for it to be considered an empirically testable phenomenon ...
Just check up voodoo and occult practices and you will see that some people base their lives around this and others have their lives affected by this practice. Some people who travelled to UK from Africa have even been arrested for the killing of a child who they kidnapped and slaughtered as a sacrifice. And practitioners of black magic in the West Indies have been banned from practicing it, but are now beginning to think about making it legal. Haiti is a voodoo hotspot ... There are new age pagans all over the west who practice magic ... Whether it works or not is not important ... The fact that there are people who seriously practice it ... Is a deep concern.
Of course it's important whether something works or not! People kill and die for superstition thinking it works! There is no difference between those practices and practices of every other religion...people think it works! It doesn't!
And I would submit to you, all religions are made up to serve very specific purposes of grown ups! :)