On the Origin, Idea, Scope, and History of Ancient and Modern Magic

To Satan, Zauberglauben magic-belief in Christenthum Christianity held—and had to hold. Through the dogmatic teachings about this Prince of Hell and his kingdom, which was populated by countless demons, it was finally developed into a terrible system in the "Malleus Maleficarum" original: "Hexen-Hammer", that universally-historically memorable book which one reads with alternating sensations of melancholy and abhorrence. A terrifying theological criminal code for magic, according to which, during the witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and in part even the eighteenth centuries, magic-belief was investigated and determined, and punished with fire and sword upon the unfortunate victims held to be guilty of that age. This is the dark period of the witch trials in the history of humanity, and the specific form of magic-belief which one can call Diabolomagie devil-magic or Dämonomagie demon-magic.

So there was now, in the new Christian world just as earlier in the old pagan world, magic-belief and sorcery in agreement with and through the help of higher powers—there, of the gods themselves; here, of Satan, that being who, while subordinate to the Divinity, was nevertheless fearful in power and influence and evil in itself.

This type of magic in both worlds can be called "black" or evil, and it is commonly called so, especially the latter, because

Raspe's Code of Gentoo Laws, Kleuker's Zend-Avesta, the Koran, etc., which, although six centuries younger than the New Testament, is still so full of magic, and—draw the parallel yourself.