Brewer's: Black Art

The art practised by conjurors, wizards, and others, who professed to have dealings with the devil. Black here means diabolical or wicked. Some derive it from nigromancy, a corruption of necromancy.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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