World Building: Black Magic & Witchcraft (Feat. Atun-Shei Films)

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Black Magic, Witchcraft, occult, demons, rituals, sigils, ancient languages, curses, movies, talismans, history, and much more. Today we look at how to world build black magic and witchcraft in your settings, and even maybe how to do a little bit yourself! And a special voice appearance from Atun-Shei Films, of Checkmate Lincolnites! fame!
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2. Lykiardopoulos, Amica. “The Evil Eye: Towards an Exhaustive Study.” Folklore 92, no. 2 (1981): 221-30. www.jstor.org/stable/1259477.
Henry, Andrew. 2015. “What is the Evil Eye” KZbin.
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3. Peterson, Joseph H., ed. 2001. The Lesser Key of Solomon: Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis. N.p.: Samuel Weiser. books.google.com/books?hl=en&...
4. Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Deirdre English. 2010. Witches, Midwives & Nurses: A History of Women Healers. N.p.: Feminist Press at the City University of New York. 31- 49. archive.org/details/witchesmi...
Ben-Yehuda, Nachman. “The European Witch Craze of the 14th to 17th Centuries: A Sociologist’s Perspective.” American Journal of Sociology 86, no. 1 (1980): 1-31. www.jstor.org/stable/2778849.
Sledge, Justin. 2015. “Witchcraft - Malleus Maleficarum - The Hammer of Witches - History and Analysis of the Inquisition” KZbin.
• Witchcraft - Malleus M...
5. Lawson, Deodat, and Edward Putman. 1692. “A brief and true narrative of some remarkable passages relating to sundry persons afflicted by witchcraft at Salem village, which happened from the nineteenth of March to the fifth of April, 1692 collected by Deodat Lawson.” quod.lib.umich.edu. Page 5. quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A49....
6. Taussig, Michael. 2008. Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing. N.p.: University of Chicago Press. 188 - 208.
7. Bartkowski, John P. “Claims-Making and Typifications of Voodoo as a Deviant Religion: Hex, Lies, and Videotape.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 37, no. 4 (1998): 559-79. doi.org/10.2307/1388141.
Henry, Andrew. 2015. “Vodou: Haiti’s African-Derived Religion” KZbin.
• What is the Evil Eye? .
8. Long, Carolyn Morrow. “Perceptions of New Orleans Voodoo: Sin, Fraud, Entertainment, and Religion.” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 6, no. 1 (2002): 88. www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/...
8. Long, Carolyn Morrow. “Perceptions of New Orleans Voodoo: Sin, Fraud, Entertainment, and Religion.” 86-101.
Unlawful Assemblies,” New Orleans Daily Picayune, 31 July 1850, 2. Accessed via Long, Carolyn Morrow. “Perceptions of New Orleans Voodoo”. 89.
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[@Stoneworks]

Not a very CHRISTMASY video, but one that I simply had to make right now. Check out Atun-Shei's masterpiece, The Sudbury Devil, here- atunsheifilms.vhx.tv/

[@frenchempire9471]

Happy belated/early/actual birthday stoney 😊

[@Stoneworks]

Thank you! Happy belated/early/actual birthday to you too!@@frenchempire9471

[@kangaroobignuts]

​@@Stoneworkscan u allow cracked players join?

[@JH_Unknown]

Is there really no new abt the new world and the destruction of Rathnir and eldaum

[@shitface7000]

ok but why are you letting the server rot and die to simply provide content to your dying channel... you dont care bout worldbuilding or the server you just care bout making quick content for your channel... you somehow messed up so bad that your own admins duped so you have to DESTORY RATHNIR to fix it and to save face you say "Oh well guys it's an old server! please believe me" what a joke

[@ravenpapa27]

"I went to the moon last night with a witch and I did DMT with easter bunnies"

[@Bluehawk2008]

squad goals

[@ravenpapa27]

@@Bluehawk2008 I forgot to reply to this but yes

[@apilolomi4354]

Now this is a pleasantly surprising collaboration.

[@modernmajorgeneral4669]

It’s not the collab we needed, but it is the collab we should have probably seen coming.

[@lordsiergiej9685]

14:57 That's some new version of "black Madonna" from Poland Nice

[@Yogurt435]

Minecraft Guy and Civil War guy in a collab? I need to see this

[@Orleborleh]

been wanting to see a collab like this for ages, so happy it's finally happening

[@SomasAcademy]

Great video! If anyone is interested in hearing some more about The Sudbury Devil, I just released a review on my channel. I didn't end up getting too deep into the social associations with witchcraft as this video does (had to cut a lot of analysis out of my video for time, probably gonna do a follow-up video covering it later lol), but it was definitely something I noticed in the film; Witchcraft in the Early Modern Puritan context was so deeply rooted in fears about "others" and ideas about subverting the established social order with regards to religious morals and gender and race relations. Super interesting topic!

[@AstridRackham]

I never expected this collab, but I am VERY happy to see it. I LOVE your server AND Atun-Shei.

[@TheBurgerkrieg]

A while ago I played a Louisiana Voodoo practitioner in Mage: the Ascension and it was such a fantastic experience to learn more about the magic and the religion, especially seeing just how strong the parallels are with Christian miracle working, especially with its focus on community feasts, music, and dance. I developed a Correspondence 1 + Matter 1 spell that allows me to basically drive completely absent-minded, and calling it "Legba take the wheel" works perfectly well in translating its meaning. Theologically speaking, protestant Christianity of course very deliberately focuses the worship of God over the worship of Saints, and Christianity in general views possession very negatively, which the various Voodoo practices are much more nuanced on. As an interesting side effect of this (it is presumed) people diagnosed with schizophrenia from sub-saharan Africa generally experience "the voices" as a neutral mix, whereas Europeans experience them as overwhelmingly negative.

[@kennykentus2919]

Collab I didn't expect. Lovely guys!

[@jackinthebox1993]

This continues to be one of my favorite worldbuilding channels on KZbin.

[@HlootooThunderhammer]

Finally, your magic system breakdown! Have you ever considered going into topics like cuisine, music, or art? I'm curious of your take on stuff like that. Anyway, happy with new content and looking forward to whenever the next comes out, Stoney!

[@icygaming20]

This is by far the most out of nowhere collab ever. But ive watched both of you for a long time so i am not complaining at all lol

[@justanicemelon9963]

Stoney's descent into madness is finally complete

[@Rodrigo_Vega]

Hey, in Princess & de Frog, there was also a _good_ voudou priestess so it's not depiected as inherently malevolent. .

[@thebushna]

I think I love this video x10 more bc you released it right before Christmas, and that's just funny 🎄🎄🎄 Happy Holidays everyone! 😊

[@Stoneworks]

Lmao yeah, the timing is a bit peculiar. It should be more of a halloween vid

[@thebushna]

Nah the timing couldn't be more perfect@@Stoneworks. How else you gonna get all the ultra-religion fanatics in your comments section? Gotta farm that free engagement 🤣

[@Twisted_Logic]

I highly recommend the channel Esoterica if you want to more on this subject

[@Stoneworks]

I actually watched his video on the Malleus Maleficarum in preparation for it! If you haven't seen it, it's linked in the description

[@dance_ofThaDEAD]

In my world Black Magic is exactly the same as White Magic but used to harm and by the enemy

[@ryandugan2062]

The lore revealed in elden ring of the light tree being a parasite on the land is a big flip where you look at everything differently

[@lordsiergiej9685]

Stoneworks finally going back to quality materials

[@beamishbee0475]

i was not expecting Atun-Shei Films to be in this video lol, feels like a wacky dream.

[@graemebennett7648]

That Thor cameo is awesome

[@blakea3323]

Keep in mind also that there is good Voodoo. The culture surrounding voodoo was demonized by slave owners, but important to the slaves for things like healing and medicine. Disney even represents that there can be good Voodoo with Mama Odie, a healing shamanistic woman, but a Voodoo witch nonetheless.

[@georgethompson913]

Isnt Voodoo more a combinatipn of african paganism and Catholicism? Also a practicioner of magic in Voodoo is a Bokor.

[@Nova-jw6ju]

Great video, actually. I was expecting it to be kinda...tone-deaf...but you were actually very thoughtful when discussing just what *defines* what we call "black magic," and took the cultures that magic comes from very seriously. Also, it was just long enough for me to finish my frozen dinner right as it ended!

[@marinomusico5768]

Awesome video! Just what I needed to watch to better apply magic in my stories.

[@commander_magma-ex7hz]

The rithnir said a remote host forcibly closed the conection

[@YKR-000]

Time to use this for the YKR Magic Department

[@zzlord4309]

that was the fish about in the end?

[@chaceblankenship3759]

STONEWORKS you should really make a video on the biggest, most unique and most important mercenarie(s) in Rathnir's history

[@Glaskii]

Time to use this for the segrist resurgence

[@user-bf2nb3tm8f]

nuh uh

[@agnelodesouza7094]

Please could you make the server Tlauncher supported or Cross-play. It would boost the amount of players!

[@heraadrian7764]

Or see it as primeval barbarism or primordial unrefined powers at the edges of being extinguished by a new order that is a bit more palatable. Having the priest pray for the damnation of the enemy versus the shaman sacrificing the young to curse the foe. Easy ,powerful but simple and very wasteful of old evil versus complicated, less raw power and hard to make but not wasteful for the new good side(less bloody).

[@MantellanCrux]

What's the music that plays at the end?? It's so good! There's nothing in the description! But great video, and thanks for talking about how Vodou got warped by political agendas. Super sad, but very very interesting!

[@Stoneworks]

I'm assuming you're talking about the African-ish music playing during the Vodou section. It's called Zmbadyee by RA. One of the best tracks I've ever discovered on the site I license music from! musicvine.com/browse/artist/ra

[@MantellanCrux]

Amazing! Thank you so much!

[@aaroncabatingan5238]

I did na zee this coming.

[@user-vr8uz2jd9y]

yo the link you have given for the world bilding discord sevear is not working help

[@logandavis8120]

It would be so cool if stoney actually would curse your enemies for like 30 dollars

[@Gyashonav]

I have an idea, not exactly dark (especially for how this magic system already worked) and I may just not use it or use it fully but, one must use symbols of their own and write it in their blood then, put their intentions into such script and destroy it using the power they already possessed. Also I do hate the idea of a specific language being used for magic or only certain ruins are needed for magic but I think it may be more interesting if ever person, family, or cultural must make their own language for magic, with the intentions going into it changing it's function.

[@TechNinjaSigma]

0:28 🗿

[@qoombert]

9/10 server. i got out of the hub area and found manu villages. every item is disappearing tho.

[@islotiqq7451]

Make more Eldham videos

[@arkbirdhr2770]

Can we have World building video about create advancement of technology and sci-fi for civilization?

[@MioAkiyama3686]

Also how christians in the past (and many still today) claimed all gods of other religions were demons in disguise

[@nuh_uh210]

Well…not really. Actually, christians in the past “cleaned up” older religions , particularly long-dead mythologies, making them more Christian. In the same way that the Romans took up Greek mythology as their own, christians adapted many mythologies and folklore, particularly Norse folklore, to follow more christian doctrine. In more superstitious places in Europe like rural slavic and balkan areas (speaking as someone born there) you can see how old druidic folklore of evil spirits is disguised behind devilry while still holding characteristics of the old folklore. It’s just the way that missionaries got the locals to accept their religion.

[@Waryam2]

every time i login to the server the server says that i have to li nked my discord account i should link my discord account but i does not tell me how?????

[@DawnKebals-hi4sr]

:o Checkmate Lincolnites and Witchfinder General??

[@sir_d1rt532]

you got Johnny Reb on this video?

[@roboraptortitantamer]

Good morning America

[@alphaknight4067]

You should make a video on the audalad civil war/yammer shitshow

[@dimituratanasov5859]

Can you actually play in this server from Tlauncher

[@okaycylix27]

Hey, I hate to have to write a comment about this but I’m having trouble trying to join the discord server. I got a PC a while ago and I have Java, when I tried to join the discord server, it told me the link has been expired. If anyone can or is willing to help, please let me know. Thank you!

[@user-xv8lr9dc3v]

lål That pun was on my mind too

[@VeryLazyJack]

I can't really tell if you are just really detailed into it or if you believe in dark magic irl, can you clarify

[@Stoneworks]

really detailed into it

[@VeryLazyJack]

@@Stoneworks kk thanks

[@Fredrick_Turner]

daymn i missed it :(

[@localroger]

Very nice video, but there is a little something I'd like to add to your original precis of "magical intention." For most "real" magical systems, it is a fundamental assumption that thoughts are real things, as real as stones and bricks. The New Agey callout to this is that you make a "thoughtform," a deliberately crafted thought which being a real thing can have effects in the real world, because well it's a real thing like poop and blood and soda pop. This mostly goes along with your take, but there is one important warning you will often see: If you seek to do black magic, to do harm, you are creating a harmful, negative thoughtform. Now while you have some control over this because you're creating it, you better be sure your control is good because ultimately the thing closest to this harmful negative thoughtform is YOU. The trick with black magic isn't doing harm, it's doing harm to the object of your intention without getting the harm done to yourself first because that's always easier and more direct. Vodun with its dolls and curses is especially specific about this, with little rituals like leaving dimes here and there and purification with incense to make sure the thoughtform you're creating goes out in the world to do its badness rather than coming back on you. And for those who have magical intent and think they might be targeted by such a thing, there are other rituals which don't try to counter the negative thoughtform -- after all, once it exists it's a thing that can't easily be destroyed -- but to counter the protections and send it back to its creator instead of letting it do its job on you. Wiccans formulated what they call the Law of Three, which says simply that any magic you do will affect you three times as much as it will affect someone else. Not a problem if you are trying to draw down blessings and healing forces, but not good if you want the spirits to torture and murder your enemy.

[@Mworldgames]

😮

[@phuros]

me rn imagining the fanfic Berg did being read by some 12 year old opening his eye to the black magic that is ERPing

[@EightWhisper-zw3hb]

cant believe yall are deleting rathnir

[@Stoneworks]

you got the wrong info

[@DawnKebals-hi4sr]

First!

[@Chronlus]

bazinga

[@rhyleyplant3421]

17th?

[@sirhamwich3444]

I really just want a modded stoneworks RP sever because I want to actually use magic in RP not talk in a discord chat on how we're going to play it out. I'm not ask for crazy stuff I just want the classes mod and the origin mod for races and one of the many great magic mods that add lots of different magic play styles and not just magic there should also be new armors weapons NPCs mobs all that

[@EliasSchellenschlaeger]

Make rathnir videos

[@spectral8240]

hehe

[@Stoneworks]

SPECTRAL

[@spectral8240]

Hi Stoney @@Stoneworks

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Pls let bedrock players play stoneworks

[@user-some_failure]

Well I do have 5 dollars and there are some enemy's I have

[@CrazyCringles]

I would love to see a video covering the empire of bardonia because the empire is better and the republic is an L

[@Stoneworks]

I’m going to make a top 5 empires list, and the first empire is on there yes

[@CrazyCringles]

Ok nice 👍

[@JoJo-yk2vc]

I P ?

[@marinomusico5768]

This Video Shows That Black/Dark Magic Is Just Magic From The Enemy/Oppositor Belief System With A Veil Of Stigma and Prejudice ❤

[@remingtonwright6796]

You can't just say "Librum Incinederae" and expect-" 📖🔥 Xander, please don't speak Latin in front of the books.

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I think he is dead.

[@Stoneworks]

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[@musasiziannet6015]

Isaiah55:6&7,"Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts.Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon." Repent, receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior today.This is God's invitation for redemption, Jesus loves you so much and he is the only WAY to eternity.God bless you