White Magic vs. Black Magic

Good morning my fellow Pagans/Neo-Pagans/Visitors!!! Right now I am in this wonderful Cafe on Main Street and it's just an excellent place, because I have just been served bagels and milk! I know that's not why all of you decided to read this post, but I just wanted to share that really cool fact. Anyway, I bet all of you, especially you, are here because of this post's title. Yes, there is such thing as good magic and bad magic, it's just the way you use magic that makes it what it is. So, before I get into some spells that help to explain white magic and black magic, let's explain the two contrasts.

White Magic

What is white magic and what makes it white? At the heart all magic is the same and has no color, however, it is common today to believe that different types of magic has different color.
Different colors in magic have been made common place due to their use in movies, television and video games. Typically colors like red or pink are love magic, green is for money and wealth, black is evil and white is good.
When people talk about white magic, then generally refer to healing and helping magic spells. Keeping your spellbook color-coded, red for love spells, green for money, black for death and white for healing is fairly common but not required. An important thing to remember is that all magic is magic, and there really is no such thing as evil magic or good magic.

What is White Magic?

Today, most people consider healing and health spells to be white magic. It is not any more or less difficult than black magic, and even white magic spells can have consequences.
The following spells are generally accepted as white magic spells:

• Enchanting Spells
• Friendship Spells
• Truth Spells
• Cure Spells
• Diet Spells
• Healing Spells
• Health Spells
• Defense Spells
• Dream Spells
• Peace Spells
• Protection Spells
• Warding Off Spells
• Baby Spells
• Fertility Spells
• Growing Spells

Black Magic

You may ask, what is black magic? There are many debates as to what exactly is black magic and how it is different than white magic, or any other color magic you may have heard of.In the simpliest terms, all magic is the same and really had no color, but the media, movies, television and video games has made color magic very popular. In the media, black magic is portrayed as evil, white as good. Red is often seen as love magic, green as money or wealth.
Such a division of magic into colors is useful, you can color-code your own spell code, writing love spells on red or pink paper and make them easy to find, but in reality this division of color does not really exist, the 'magic' is the same for all these spells and rituals.

So what is Black Magic then?

Real practitioners consider spells which fight against, or try to manipulate free will as black magic. Because these spells try to influence the normal life of others they can become pretty dangerous if they backfire. Free will is considered by some as the strongest force in nature so care should definately be taken when dealing in the dark arts.
The line between what can be considered back magic is fuzzy though. Love spells are rarely seen as black magic, but if the spell makes someone leave their spouce and travel across the country to be with you you are definatly messing with free will. However, a simple crush spell to get a date doesn't really mess with their free will.
No matter how you decide to define black magic, the following are generally considered as black magic spells:

• Death Spells
• Hurt Spells
• Resurrection Spells
• Banishing Spells
• Binding Spells
• Conjuring Spells
• Energy Spells
• Nightmare Spells
• Power Spells
• Revenge Spells
• Bad Luck Spells
• Misfortune Spells

On the next post, we'll get more into colors and what they mean, especially when you use candles! Blessed be!

Information for this post came from www.spellsofmagic.com