All 8 SPECIAL & FORBIDDEN Types of Magic Explained

Summary

The video surveys eight forms of magic historically described as special, forbidden, or dangerous. It presents them mainly through medieval European religious beliefs and legal thinking, while also noting a perspective from Islamic scholarship on dreams. The central theme is that each practice was condemned for crossing a boundary: between the living and the dead, desire and discipline, humans and spirits, or private knowledge and religious authority. These are accounts of historical beliefs, not claims that the practices work.

The Eight Types

1. Necromancy

   • Practices intended to contact or control the dead, or obtain knowledge from them.
   • Medieval accounts associated it with summoning spirits or using burial remains to seek hidden truths, future events, or lost information.
   • Church authorities condemned it as interference with the divine order. Many theologians argued that apparent contact with the dead was actually demonic deception.

2. Sex magic

   • Treats sexual arousal, orgasm, or sustained erotic focus as a source of ritual power.
   • Later Western esoteric systems are described as linking sexual climax with visualizations, symbols, or invocations to direct an intention.
   • Its perceived threat was moral and social: it made desire a tool of power rather than something restrained by religious norms.

3. Goetia

   • A ritual system for summoning and attempting to bind or command nonhuman spirits, often identified as demons.
   • The video characterizes it as procedural, involving grimoires with names, ranks, seals, timings, incantations, and protective symbols.
   • A typical structure places the practitioner within a protective circle and the summoned spirit within a separate boundary.
   • Religious critics objected that it sought to control spirits through ritual knowledge rather than submit to divine authority.

4. Diabolic pact magic

   • In contrast to Goetia’s attempted compulsion, pact magic is framed as a negotiated agreement with a demonic entity.
   • Stories of pacts describe power being exchanged for service, obedience, secrecy, or the practitioner’s soul. Agreements might be portrayed as spoken, written, or symbolically sealed.
   • The key distinction was consent: theologians regarded cooperation with a demon as a deliberate rejection of divine authority.

5. Maleficium

   • A category defined by the alleged harmful result of magic, rather than by a particular ritual method.
   • It was associated with causing illness, injury, infertility, crop failure, madness, or death.
   • In medieval and early modern Europe, the idea helped underpin witchcraft prosecutions: unexplained misfortune could be treated as evidence of intentional supernatural harm.
   • Authorities often attributed such harm to demonic assistance, even when no demon was explicitly invoked.

6. Blood rites

   • Practices that treat blood as a source or carrier of life force, used to intensify intention, bind an outcome, or attract supernatural forces.
   • The video emphasizes blood’s material and irreversible character: unlike a spoken charm, it involves a physical substance and, in some accounts, injury or sacrifice.
   • Christian authorities viewed ritual blood use outside approved religious practice as taboo and as a rejection of religious law.

7. Forbidden divination

   • Methods for seeking hidden or future knowledge through channels prohibited by religious authorities, such as scrying, consulting spirits, or questioning oracles.
   • The objection was not simply to prediction, but to seeking knowledge without divine authorization.
   • Authorities also warned that apparent revelations might come from deceptive spirits, and feared that secret knowledge could undermine communal and religious authority.

8. Dream divination

   • Treats dreams—spontaneous or deliberately cultivated—as sources of guidance, warnings, or future knowledge.
   • Because dreams require no special tools or formal procedure, they were difficult for institutions to regulate and could give individuals a private basis for authority.
   • The video notes that Islamic tradition recognizes that dreams may be meaningful or prophetic, while mainstream scholars generally reject dreams as primary grounds for religious law or communal governance.

Overall Lesson

The video connects the eight practices through a recurring concern about authority. Each was portrayed as dangerous when it seemed to let people obtain power or knowledge outside accepted religious structures—by consulting the dead, harnessing bodily desire, bargaining with spirits, causing harm, using blood, or trusting private revelations.

Speakers and Sources Featured

• Narrator: The sole speaking voice, presenting the overview and closing with a brief like-and-subscribe message.
• Sources and viewpoints discussed by the narrator: Medieval and early modern Christian church authorities, theologians, and clerical writings; Solomonic magical texts and grimoires; and mainstream Islamic scholars and legal authorities. No individual historical speakers are named.