“ Black Magic” Misleads Gangsters Killing Lions in South Africa

An owner of a private zoo in South Africa discovered that a group of lions have been killed inside their cages in an ambiguous conditions.

He pointed out that he and his partner raised those animals for 11 years.

Unknown gangsters poisoned the lions to take their fangs and paws out to use them in outlawed activities linked to the black magic.

Lions Thur ( 7 years), Mamford (8 years), she-lions Isis (11 years) and Mia (7 years) were among other felines in a lion zoo owned by Chamilion Fieldge in South Africa.

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The gangsters sneaked into the zoo and threw poisoned dead chickens into cages of the lions.

The lions devoured the birds and died slowly in a painful manner.

The gangsters attempted to break into the zoo again to remove fangs and paws but the watching dogs barked at them and the guards started to chase them .

The culprits fled the scene at once.

Heiny Pew, the co-owner of the zoo, said in statements quoted by local media outlets, that  they raised those loins throughout years.

"I and my wife loved those feline sincerely as our kids before we had sons later," he added.

He said that he is going to pursue the culprits and bring them to justice.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/07/fourteen-lions-escape-from-kruger-park-in-south-africa

It is worth mentioning that black magic has traditionally has been used as supernatural powers or magic for evil and selfish purposes. With respect to the left-hand path and right-hand path dichotomy, black magic is the malicious, left-hand counterpart of the benevolent white magic.

In modern times, some find that the definition of "black magic" has been convoluted by people who define magic or ritualistic practices that they disapprove of as "black magic.

In particular, though, the term was most commonly reserved for those accused of invoking demons and other evil spirits, those cursing their neighbours, those using magic to destroy crops, and those capable of leaving their earthly bodies and travelling great distances in spirit (to which the Malleus Maleficarum "devotes one long and important chapter"), usually to engage in devil-worship.

Summers also highlights the etymological development of the term negromancer, in common use from 1200 to approximately 1500, (Latin: Niger, black; Greek: Manteia, pination), broadly "one skilled in the black arts.