What is true black magic?

This question seems to appear at least once a week, and unfortunately the answer does not change.
Magic is the manipulation of naturally occurring powers by the will of a practitioner. Like all other forms of power, magic is neither good (White) nor bad (Black), it just is. The ethical practice of magic eliminates the un-necessary labeling.
If you draw your magic in a harmful way or if you use your magic in a harmful way, the rest of the world would label that as "black magic". But then there are those out there who label ALL magic as black.
What the un-initiated don't "get" is that practitioners of magic work within the Rule of Three (That which you send out will return to you three fold). If you think about it, having to take responsibility for your actions tends to make you cautious. "Black" magic is as dangerous or in fact three times more dangerous to the practitioner as it is to the rest of the world.

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