As a fourth-generation Romanian fortune teller, I have witnessed the consequences of those who stray from the path of light. Let me share with you why white magic should always be your choice.
Introduction
Greetings, dear souls. I am Anisha, a fourth-generation Romanian Gypsy witch residing in the vibrant heart of London. The ancient wisdom that flows through my veins has been carefully preserved and passed down through generations of my family, who have dedicated their lives to the practice of ethical, healing magic. Today, I wish to address a question that many seekers bring to my door – the temptation of black magic, and why this path leads only to suffering.
In my many years of providing spiritual guidance through tarot readings, astrological charts, ritual oils, and spell work, I have encountered countless individuals who, in moments of desperation or hunger for power, have contemplated turning to darker practices. This article is written with love and concern for all those who stand at this crossroads, uncertain which path to choose.
Black magic may promise quick solutions and immediate power, but these promises are hollow. Like a devil’s bargain in old folk tales, the price is always far greater than what you initially perceive. As we explore this topic together, I hope to illuminate the hidden dangers of black magic and offer you the beautiful, effective alternatives that white magic provides—magic that heals rather than harms, that builds rather than destroys.
Understanding Black Magic: Beyond the Misconceptions
Before we discuss why black magic should be avoided, it’s important to understand what it truly is, beyond Hollywood portrayals and common misconceptions.
Black magic, sometimes called dark magic or malevolent sorcery, is fundamentally characterised by its intent to harm, manipulate, control, or force outcomes against the natural flow of energy and without regard for the free will of others. It involves practices designed to cause suffering, misfortune, illness, or even death to targeted individuals. The core of black magic is selfishness—the desire to bend reality to one’s will regardless of the consequences to others.
Some practitioners may argue that black magic is simply “powerful magic” or “magic without limitations,” but this perspective ignores the fundamental laws of energy that govern our universe. Magic, at its essence, is the direction of energy and intention to create change. The nature of that energy—whether harmful or healing—determines whether the magic is “black” or “white.”
In my Romanian traditions, we have ancient warnings about those who practice “vrăjitorie neagră” (black witchcraft). These warnings are not based on religious dogma but on generations of observed consequences. My grandmother would say, “Ce trimiți în lume, se întoarce întreit“—what you send into the world returns threefold. This is not merely a superstition but a recognition of how energy operates in our interconnected universe.
The Spiritual Consequences of Black Magic
When you engage with black magic, you open doorways that are difficult to close. The most immediate and concerning consequence is the damage to your own spiritual essence.
Corruption of the Soul’s Light
In our Romanian tradition, we believe that each person is born with a bright internal light—what some might call the soul or spirit. This light is your connection to divine guidance, intuition, and your highest self. Black magic requires you to dim this light, to cut yourself off from higher spiritual planes in order to connect with lower, denser energies that are willing to do harm.
I have seen this corruption manifest in people’s auras—what was once a vibrant field of colour becomes murky and dark around the edges, with shadow-like tendrils extending outward. The eyes, which we call “fereastra sufletului” (windows of the soul), lose their clarity and depth.
A client once came to me after practising black magic for revenge on a former partner. “I got what I wanted,” she told me, “but now I feel empty inside, like something is missing.” What was missing was her connection to her higher self, temporarily severed by her descent into darker energies.
Spiritual Attachments and Entities
One of the most dangerous aspects of black magic is that it often involves calling upon or creating openings for spiritual entities that feed on negative energy. In Romanian folklore, we have names for many such entities—strigoi, moroi, and others—but they exist in every culture, under different names.
These entities do not serve you out of loyalty or respect. They attach themselves to your energy field because you have created a vibrational match through your negative intentions. Over time, they drain your life force, creating chronic fatigue, depression, anxiety, recurring nightmares, and even physical illness that doctors cannot explain.
A particularly troubling case I encountered involved a young man who had used black magic to secure a job promotion over a colleague. Within months, he began experiencing terrifying nightmares of being chased by shadow figures. His health deteriorated, and he developed an inexplicable autoimmune condition. When I performed a spiritual cleansing, I detected multiple energetic parasites attached to his solar plexus and throat chakras—precisely the energy centres associated with power and truth.
The Rule of Three (Or Seven, or Ten)
Many magical traditions speak of a principle of return—what you send out comes back multiplied. In Wiccan traditions, this is often called the “Rule of Three.” In my Romanian tradition, we speak of sevenfold return for particularly harmful magic.
This is not punishment from some judgemental deity but simply the mechanics of energy. When you send out harmful intention, you create a resonance pattern that attracts similar energies back to you. Additionally, to perform black magic, you must first hold the negative energy within your own field—the hatred, jealousy, or desire to harm—which already begins to poison you before you even direct it outward.
I have documented hundreds of cases in my family’s grimoires where those who cast harmful spells eventually suffered similar or worse fates themselves. A curse for financial ruin often leads to the practitioner’s own economic collapse. A spell to break a relationship frequently results in the magician’s own isolation and inability to form lasting bonds.
Physical and Psychological Dangers
The consequences of black magic extend beyond the spiritual realm into tangible physical and psychological effects.
Health Deterioration
The human body is an energetic system that responds to the quality of energy we channel through it. Black magic requires you to channel dense, negative energies that are fundamentally incompatible with your body’s optimal functioning.
Common physical symptoms experienced by those who practice black magic include:
- Chronic, unexplained fatigue
- Weakened immune system and frequent illness
- Digestive disorders
- Skin problems and premature aging
- Headaches and migraines
- Sleep disturbances
- Heart palpitations and circulation issues
In our Romanian healing traditions, we recognise these symptoms as “boală din vrăji“—illness from spells. They occur because the body is in a constant state of energetic conflict, trying to maintain its natural harmony while processing discordant energies.
Psychological Imbalance
Perhaps even more concerning than the physical effects are the psychological changes that black magic practitioners undergo. The mind, being more immediately responsive to energy than the physical body, often shows signs of damage first.
These psychological effects may include:
- Increased paranoia and suspicion of others
- Emotional numbness or inappropriate emotional responses
- Nightmares and disturbing thought patterns
- Obsessive thinking, especially about the targets of spells
- Difficulty feeling empathy or compassion
- Depression and suicidal ideation
- Addiction tendencies as a form of escape
A particularly disturbing pattern I’ve observed is how black magic practitioners become increasingly isolated. As their energy field becomes more distorted, they naturally repel those with healthier energy. People may not consciously understand why they feel uncomfortable around the practitioner, but they instinctively sense something is wrong.
This isolation then feeds a cycle of bitterness and resentment, which further attracts negative experiences, “proving” to the practitioner that the world is a hostile place that justifies their use of harmful magic.
The Karmic Debt and Future Lives
For those who believe, as I do, in the continuity of the soul across multiple lifetimes, black magic presents an even more serious concern: karmic entanglement that extends beyond this incarnation.
Creating Karmic Bonds
When you use magic to harm or manipulate another person, you create a powerful energetic cord between yourself and that individual. This connection doesn’t simply dissolve when the spell is complete or even when one of you passes from this life. Instead, it creates a karmic debt that must be balanced in future incarnations.
In our Romanian spiritual tradition, we understand that souls often reincarnate in groups, working through complex relationships and lessons across many lifetimes. By using black magic against someone, you ensure that your soul paths will cross again, but in reversed positions. The suffering you inflicted will return to be experienced by you.
A telling example from my family’s oral history involves two men in my great-grandmother’s village who engaged in a magical feud, each casting increasingly harmful spells against the other. Both died prematurely and in great suffering. Years later, my great-grandmother encountered two young boys who were inseparable friends yet constantly fought, each bearing birthmarks in the places where their previous incarnations had experienced magically-induced wounds. The karmic wheel had brought them together again to learn the lessons they had failed to learn before.
Interference with Soul Evolution
Beyond the specific karmic debts created with individuals, black magic interferes with your soul’s broader evolutionary journey. Each incarnation offers opportunities for growth, for learning to embody more light and love. Black magic reverses this process, pulling your soul’s vibration downward instead of upward.
This regression can result in more difficult future lifetimes, as your soul must create circumstances that will teach you the lessons you avoided in this life. These lessons typically involve experiences of powerlessness that balance the inappropriate power you seized through black magic.
The Ethics of Free Will and Consent
At the heart of why black magic is problematic lies the issue of free will—a principle I hold sacred in my practice.
Violating Others’ Autonomy
Black magic frequently aims to override another person’s choices and free will. Love spells that force affection, curses that create obstacles, hexes that influence decisions—all these practices attempt to impose the magician’s will over someone else’s natural life path.
This violation creates a spiritual disharmony that extends beyond the immediate practitioner and target. It disrupts the delicate web of fate and free choice that guides each person’s journey through life.
When I consult my cards for clients seeking love magic to “make” someone love them, I always explain the difference between ethical and unethical approaches. Ethical love magic focuses on opening yourself to love, removing your own blocks to receiving affection, and becoming your most authentic self to attract compatible partners. It never targets a specific person with the intent to override their choices.
Consent in Magic
The principle of consent doesn’t apply only to interactions between people—it extends to our relationship with universal energies. When you practice black magic, you are attempting to force your will upon the natural flow of energy, to bend universal laws for selfish gain.
This puts you in opposition to the universe itself, creating friction and resistance in your life path. By contrast, white magic works with universal energies, respecting their natural flow and harnessing them in ways that benefit all involved.
A central teaching in my lineage is that true magical power comes not from domination but from alignment—bringing your intentions into harmony with universal forces rather than fighting against them.
White Magic: The Powerful Alternative
Having explored the many reasons to avoid black magic, I want to offer hope by sharing the beautiful, effective alternatives that white magic provides. The notion that white magic is somehow “weaker” or “less effective” than black magic is perhaps the most dangerous misconception I encounter.
The True Power of Beneficial Magic
White magic—magic performed with beneficial intent and respect for all involved—accesses the most powerful forces in the universe: love, healing, growth, and harmony. These energies are fundamentally creative rather than destructive, and creation always requires more sophisticated power than destruction.
Think of it this way: it takes only seconds to knock down a house, but months to build one. The building process requires more skill, more sustained energy, and more intelligence than the destruction. Similarly, healing magic requires greater finesse and deeper understanding than harmful magic.
In my decades of practice, I have witnessed white magic create what many would consider miracles:
- Terminal illnesses going into unexpected remission after healing rituals
- Seemingly “impossible” reconciliations between estranged family members
- Life-changing opportunities appearing after abundance work
- Deep emotional wounds healing through spiritual cleansing
- Protection spells deflecting genuine danger from my clients
None of these outcomes required harming others or disturbing universal balance. In fact, their effectiveness came precisely from their alignment with higher good.
Examples of Ethical Alternatives to Common Black Magic Practices
For those tempted by specific black magic practices, I offer these white magic alternatives:
Instead of revenge spells: Perform justice rituals that ask universal forces to bring appropriate balance to a situation, without specifying how that should manifest. This respects the wisdom of higher forces to determine the best resolution.
Instead of manipulation love spells: Work with self-love rituals that heal your own heart and make you magnetically attractive to compatible partners. Focus on clarity spells that help you recognise true love when it appears.
Instead of curses for enemies: Use binding spells that simply prevent someone from causing further harm, without inflicting suffering upon them. Alternatively, mirror shields that reflect a person’s own energy back to them allow natural consequences without your direct involvement.
Instead of forced prosperity at others’ expense: Abundance rituals that open channels for wealth to flow to you through beneficial exchanges, harming no one and often benefiting others through your increased prosperity.
The Joy and Peace of Ethical Practice
Beyond effectiveness, white magic offers something black magic never can: peace of mind and spiritual joy. When your magical practice aligns with your highest values, each ritual becomes not just a means to an end but a sacred experience in itself.
My happiest moments as a practitioner come from seeing the look of peaceful revelation on a client’s face during a tarot reading that brings clarity, or receiving news that a healing spell jar I created has helped someone recover from a long illness. These moments contain a quality of joy that could never come from causing harm or manipulating others.
At night, I sleep peacefully, knowing my magic creates ripples of positivity in the world. Practitioners of black magic rarely experience this peace, as they must constantly look over their shoulder for the consequences of their actions.
Protection Against Black Magic
For those concerned about being the target of black magic, I offer these insights from my Romanian traditions on protection.
Signs You May Be Under Magical Attack
First, it’s important to note that many difficulties in life have natural causes and shouldn’t immediately be attributed to magical attacks. However, these signs, especially when occurring together, may suggest unwanted magical influence:
- Sudden, inexplicable streaks of bad luck in multiple areas of life
- Recurring nightmares with similar themes or featuring specific people
- Finding strange objects or arrangements (bundles, powders, markings) near your home
- Unusual pet behaviour, particularly animals seeming to track invisible entities
- A sense of being watched or a heaviness in specific areas of your home
- Persistent illness that doctors cannot diagnose
- Sudden, uncharacteristic negative behaviour from multiple people in your life
Simple Protection Practices Anyone Can Use
If you suspect negative energies are affecting you, these protection methods drawn from my ancestral practices can help:
Salt baths with intention: Add one cup of sea salt and three drops of lavender oil to your bath water. As you soak, visualise the water drawing out all negative energies and dissolving them.
Sound cleansing: In Romanian tradition, we believe certain sounds disperse negative energy. Ring a bell counterclockwise in each corner of your rooms, or clap loudly while visualising the sound breaking apart any stagnant or harmful energies.
Protective herb bundles: Create small bundles of dried rosemary, sage, and bay leaves to hang above doorways and windows. As you place each one, say: “Only light and love may enter here.”
Egg cleansing ritual: Pass a fresh egg over your body from head to toe while focusing on the egg absorbing any negative influences. Break the egg into a bowl of water and observe its form—dark spots or strange shapes in the whites can indicate removed negative energy. Dispose of it far from your home.
Mirror reversal: Place a small mirror facing outward in a hidden spot near your front door to reflect negative energies back to their source. This doesn’t cause harm but simply returns unwanted energy to its sender.
When to Seek Professional Help
Sometimes, particularly strong or persistent magical attacks require professional intervention. Consider consulting an ethical practitioner if:
- Your symptoms worsen despite basic protection measures
- You experience physical manifestations like unexplained marks on your body
- Multiple people in your household are affected
- You have direct knowledge of who might be targeting you and why
- You sense entities or presences rather than just negative energy
A skilled practitioner can perform more advanced cleansings, create customised protection tools, and help identify the source of negative magic without contributing to cycles of magical conflict.
Learning White Magic: Beginning Your Ethical Journey
For those interested in developing their own magical abilities in an ethical framework, I offer this guidance on beginning your journey into white magic.
Starting with Self-Work
The foundation of all effective white magic is inner work. Before attempting to change the world around you, focus on understanding and harmonising your own energetic system:
Meditation and energy sensing: Begin with daily meditation focused on simply observing your own energy. How does it feel when you’re calm versus anxious? Where do you hold tension? This awareness is essential for later magical work.
Intention setting: Practice formulating clear, specific intentions that harm none. Write them down and observe how your energy shifts as you focus on them.
Chakra balancing: Learn basic techniques for keeping your energy centres open and balanced. This creates a strong foundation for all magical practices.
Shadow work: Examine your own darker impulses and unhealed wounds with compassion. Acknowledging these aspects prevents them from unconsciously influencing your magic.
Simple White Magic Practices for Beginners
Once you’ve established some self-awareness practices, these simple white magic techniques can be safely explored by beginners:
Candle magic: Select candles of appropriate colours for your intention (green for abundance, pink for self-love, blue for communication). Carve your intention into the candle, anoint it with a suitable oil, and burn it while visualising your goal manifesting in ways that benefit all.
Kitchen witchery: Infuse your cooking with magical intention. Stir clockwise to bring things to you, add herbs with magical correspondences, and whisper your intentions into food prepared with love.
Moon water: Place a glass container of water under the moonlight during different moon phases to create water charged with specific energies. Full moon water amplifies, new moon water helps with new beginnings.
Sigil creation: Learn to create simple magical symbols that represent your intentions. Draw them on paper, visualise them glowing with energy, then release that energy through meditation or by burning the paper.
Ethical Guidelines for Magical Practice
As you develop your skills, keep these ethical principles at the heart of your practice:
The principle of necessity: Before performing any spell, ask: “Is this truly necessary? Have I tried conventional methods first?”
The law of minimal interference: Use the lightest touch possible to achieve your goal. Complex situations often require only a small energetic shift to change course.
The practice of permission: When working on behalf of others, always get explicit permission. When affecting shared spaces, consider how your magic might impact others who share that space.
The commitment to knowledge: Never perform magic with substances or entities you don’t fully understand. Research traditions thoroughly rather than mixing practices without comprehension of their contexts.
The vow of responsibility: Accept that you are responsible for all outcomes of your magic, including unintended consequences. This encourages careful planning and clear intention.
Conclusion: Choosing Your Path
As we conclude this exploration of why black magic should be avoided, I invite you to reflect on the type of energy you wish to bring into the world and the magical legacy you want to create.
Each time we perform magic, we cast a vote for the kind of universe we wish to live in—one dominated by fear, control, and harm, or one flowering with healing, growth, and mutual empowerment. This choice reflects not just our magical ethics but our deepest values as spiritual beings.
In my family’s tradition, we believe that magic is neither inherently light nor dark—the practitioner’s intention colours the energy used. By consistently choosing beneficial magic, you gradually transform your own energy signature to become more radiant, which in turn attracts more positive experiences and opportunities.
If you have dabbled in darker practices in the past, know that it is never too late to change your path. The universe rejoices when a practitioner turns toward the light, and many of the most powerful healers I know began their journeys in shadowy places before finding their way to ethical practice.
Remember the Romanian proverb my grandmother often repeated: “Lumina învinge întotdeauna întunericul“—Light always conquers darkness. Not through force or domination, but through the simple truth that light, by its nature, dispels darkness merely by being present.
If you feel drawn to explore white magic further or are in need of ethical spiritual assistance, I offer tarot readings, astrological charts, ritual oils, and spell jars through my website gypsywitchspells.com and my Etsy shop. All my services are performed with the highest ethical standards and are designed to empower you on your unique spiritual journey.
Blessings and light,
Anisha
Fourth-generation Romanian Gypsy Witch
London, UK
