13 Signs of Black Magic On Someone (And What To Do About It)

Black magic is one of the most misunderstood and most dangerous forms of negative energy a person can encounter. It is also one of the most commonly dismissed — by doctors, by therapists, by well-meaning friends and family who insist there must be a rational explanation for what is happening.

But some patterns of suffering have no rational explanation. And when those patterns appear together, persistently, and in someone who was previously living a normal and functioning life, the explanation is often spiritual rather than medical or psychological.

My name is Uriel Maksumov. For over 25 years I have worked with clients across the world who were suffering from black magic. Many of them had spent years searching for answers before they found me. This article will help you recognize the signs so you do not have to wait that long.

What Is Black Magic?

Black magic is the deliberate use of dark spiritual forces to harm a specific person. Unlike the evil eye, which can be transmitted unconsciously through envy or admiration, black magic is always intentional. Someone has made a decision to hire a practitioner, perform a ritual, or direct focused harmful energy toward you with the specific intention of destroying some area of your life.

In Kabbalistic tradition, black magic is understood as the deliberate corruption of a person’s connection to divine light. The practitioner of black magic works by creating a break in the energetic field of the target, then filling that break with dark energy that interferes with every aspect of the person’s life force.

Black magic appears across every culture and tradition on earth. It is known as Sihr in Arabic tradition, as Jadoo in South Asian practice, as Brujeria in Latin American culture, as Voodoo in West African and Caribbean tradition, and by dozens of other names across the world. The names differ. The mechanism and the damage are the same.

Who Sends Black Magic and Why?

Black magic is almost always sent by someone who knows you. It requires a personal connection — a name, a photograph, a piece of clothing, hair, or some other personal item belonging to the target. This means the person who sent it is almost certainly someone from your past or present life.

The most common sources are former romantic partners who feel betrayed or rejected, business competitors driven by envy, family members consumed by jealousy over inheritance or status, and enemies created through conflict or perceived wrongdoing. In some cases the person who sent the black magic hired a practitioner to do it on their behalf and may not even fully understand what they set in motion.

13 Signs of Black Magic On Someone

1. Sudden and Total Life Collapse

Everything falls apart at once. Career, finances, relationships, health — all deteriorating simultaneously with no logical explanation. This is the most defining characteristic of black magic. While ordinary misfortune tends to affect one area of life at a time, black magic attacks the entire energetic system at once, causing collapse across every domain simultaneously.

The suddenness matters. If you can identify a specific point when everything changed, and if life was functioning normally before that point, this is a significant indicator.

2. Persistent and Medically Unexplained Illness

The person feels genuinely unwell. Chronic pain, fatigue, digestive problems, headaches, skin conditions, or a general physical deterioration that arrived suddenly and has no medical cause. Doctors run tests and find nothing. Treatments provide no lasting relief.

Black magic targets the vital force of the person. As the vital force weakens the physical body begins to reflect that weakness. The illness is real but its origin is energetic rather than physical which is why conventional medicine cannot find or treat the cause.

3. Inexplicable and Unshakeable Depression

A darkness that arrived suddenly and will not lift regardless of circumstances, therapy, or medication. The person feels hopeless, worthless, and unable to access joy or motivation. This depression feels different from clinical depression to those who experience it — it feels external, imposed, as if something has been placed over them rather than arising from within.

In severe cases of black magic the person begins to have thoughts of self-harm or suicide that are completely out of character with their history and personality.

4. Seeing or Hearing Things Others Cannot

Dark figures in peripheral vision. Voices or sounds with no source. A persistent sense of presence in empty rooms. Shadows that move. These experiences are often dismissed as hallucination or mental illness but in the context of other signs on this list they frequently indicate a severe energetic intrusion.

Powerful black magic can open a person’s energetic field to lower dimensional influences that manifest as perceptible presences. This is one of the most frightening aspects of severe black magic and one that requires immediate attention.

5. Nightmares and Severe Sleep Disturbance

Violent, disturbing dreams that feel more real than ordinary nightmares. Dreams of being attacked, drowned, buried, or pursued by dark figures. Waking at specific times — particularly between 2am and 4am which is traditionally understood as the hour when dark energy is most active. Sleep paralysis. Waking with physical marks, bruises, or scratches with no explanation.

6. Sudden and Extreme Personality Change

The person becomes unrecognizable to those who love them. They may become rageful, paranoid, cruel, or reckless in ways that are completely foreign to their character. They may develop addictions or compulsions overnight. They may push away everyone who loves them as if driven by a force they cannot control.

This is one of the most heartbreaking signs of black magic for the families of those affected. They watch someone they love become someone they do not recognize, often without understanding why.

7. Relationship Destruction

Marriages that were stable suddenly collapse. Close friendships dissolve without cause. Family bonds that were strong become filled with conflict and resentment. New relationships cannot develop past a certain point before something destroys them.

Black magic targeting relationships works by distorting the energetic connection between the target and the people they love, creating misunderstanding, suspicion, and conflict where none existed before.

8. Financial Ruin With No Logical Cause

Businesses that were profitable suddenly fail. Investments collapse. Employment becomes impossible to maintain. Money disappears as fast as it arrives. Opportunities that seemed certain fall through at the last moment. This pattern of financial destruction persists regardless of how hard the person works or how sound their decisions are.

9. Physical Objects Breaking and Technology Failing

Electronics fail constantly. Cars break down repeatedly. Appliances stop working. Glass breaks. This pattern of physical malfunction around a specific person is recognized across healing traditions as a sign of severely disrupted personal energy. The disrupted field of the affected person interferes with the functioning of mechanical and electronic objects in their environment.

10. Animals Reacting With Fear or Aggression

Dogs that normally show affection growl or cower. Cats refuse to approach. Birds fall silent. Animals are extraordinarily sensitive to energetic disruption and their behavioral changes in the presence of a person affected by black magic are among the most reliable early indicators.

11. A Specific Person Coming to Mind

When the affected person thinks about who might have done this, one name or face comes to mind immediately and persistently. This intuition should be taken seriously. Black magic requires a personal connection and the target’s own energy often recognizes the source even when the conscious mind is reluctant to accept it.

12. Finding Strange Objects in Your Home or Belongings

Unusual items discovered in or around the home — small bundles, knotted strings, unfamiliar powders, buried objects near the doorway or under the threshold. These are physical anchors used in certain traditions of black magic to attach the working to a specific place or person. Their presence is a serious indicator that a deliberate ritual has been performed.

13. A Feeling of Being Spiritually Cut Off

Prayer feels empty. Spiritual practice that once brought comfort brings nothing. A sense of being disconnected from God, from the universe, from any higher power or spiritual support. This spiritual disconnection is one of the most painful aspects of black magic and one of the most telling signs. Black magic works precisely by severing the target’s connection to divine light and protection.

The Difference Between Black Magic and Ordinary Misfortune

Everyone goes through difficult periods. The question is always whether what is being experienced is ordinary hardship or something more targeted and persistent. The key indicators of black magic rather than ordinary misfortune are these:

The suffering is simultaneous across multiple areas of life rather than sequential. The suffering is persistent and resistant to every conventional effort to address it. The suffering began suddenly with a clear before and after. The person can often identify a likely source. The suffering feels external and imposed rather than arising from internal causes.

If five or more signs from the list above apply to your situation and the pattern matches what is described here, you are not dealing with ordinary misfortune.

Why Black Magic Must Be Removed by an Expert

Black magic is not self-resolving. Unlike the evil eye which sometimes weakens over time, black magic that has been deliberately cast with ritual intent will remain in place and continue causing damage until it is actively removed by someone with the knowledge and spiritual authority to do so.

Attempting removal without expertise can worsen the situation. Disturbing a black magic working without completing the removal can cause the energy to shift, embed more deeply, or retaliate. Proper removal requires the ability to identify exactly what has been cast, trace it to its source, dismantle it completely, remove all anchors and attachments, and seal the person’s energetic field against reattachment.

This process requires genuine spiritual authority built through years of dedicated practice. It is not something that can be learned from a YouTube video or a book.

How I Can Help You

My name is Uriel Maksumov. I come from an 800-year family lineage of spiritual healing and have practiced energy healing for over 25 years. I have removed black magic from hundreds of clients across the world, many of whom had been living with it for years before finding me.

Every session begins with a complete energetic assessment. I identify exactly what has been cast, what form it takes, where it is anchored in your field, and who sent it. From there I perform a complete removal and seal your energy with protective frequencies that prevent reattachment.

I work remotely with clients worldwide. No in-person session is required. Distance is not a barrier to energy work.

If you recognize the signs described in this article, do not wait. Black magic does not weaken on its own. It deepens. The damage it causes accumulates over time and the longer it remains in place the more difficult every area of life becomes.

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Not sure if what you have is black magic or something less severe? Read my article on 13 signs you have the evil eye and 13 signs someone put a curse on you to compare your situation.