Idioms are expressions whose meaning is different from the suggested words which compose them.

Santet is an Indonesia term for black magic used to harm or kill people. Using santet, someone can magically put nails, wires, or even insects into victim’s body, causing pain, or even death. This dangerous magic is still exist today.

The African Vodun is a faith based on worship of the serpent of Dahomey and also in Voodoo Magic, a West African region, located west of Nigeria and the northern Gulf of Guinea. Contains Ardra and Whydah, which was taken over by the Dahomans early in the eighteenth century.

" If some prest is telling you that you are under black magic spell that means that he is asking you be a fool means his regular customer."

"Black magic is the belief of practices of magic that draws on assumed malevolent powers."

White magic, black magic.

The Haitian people and their beliefs

To understand the "Voodoo" one must first understand the culture that created it:

The word Voodoo (or Vodun) comes from the Yoruba dialect which means "mystery." This religion comes from West Africa where he was brought to Haiti by slaves. Once on the island is mixed with French and establishing Christianity voodoo. This belief is based on the worship of "praise" or "spirits", many of them the result of a mixture of Christian saints.

Some hidden truths about secretive societies growing rapidly in American culture.

Rural India conceals an ongoing history of village women being hunted as witches.

My grandma taught me a technique (much like black magic) which can be used to attract people with your eyes. Not only that it sort of gives you a magnetic power to pull in.