Occult Symbols, Imagery, and Terminology
The color 'black' and what it means
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Today's 'Pagans' or 'New Age Wiccans' as they style themselves, believe in spells, hexes and yes, blood magic...Pagans are easily identified by the black and/or dark colors they prefer, and the fact that they believe in the practice of spell casting. -Wicca vs Pagan, ebay.com-
In the Book of Revelation, the last book in the New Testament of the Bible, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are supposed to announce the Apocalypse before the Last Judgment. The horseman representing famine rides a black horse.
The vampire of literature and films, such as Count Dracula of the Bram Stoker novel, dressed in black, and could only move at night. The Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, became the archetype of witches for generations of children. Whereas witches and sorcerers inspired real fear in the 17th century, in the 21st century children and adults dressed as witches for Halloween parties and parades...
Black and white have often been used to describe opposites; particularly light and darkness and good and evil. In Medieval literature, the white knight usually represented virtue, the black knight something mysterious and sinister. In American westerns, the hero often wore a white hat, the villain a black hat...
The Chinese and Japanese character for black (kuro in Japanese), can, depending upon the context, also mean dark or evil...In Japan, black is associated with mystery, the night, the unknown, the supernatural, the invisible and death...In Japan in the 10th and 11th century, it was believed that wearing black could bring misfortune...In Indonesia black is associated with depth, the subterranean world, demons, disaster, and the left hand.