The practice of forcing one’s wife to drink one’s own semen is a black art practiced by extremely lusty persons. Those who practice this very abominable activity say that if a wife is forced to drink her husband’s semen she remains very faithful to him. Generally, only low-class men engage in this black art, but if a man born in a higher class does so, after death he is put into the hell known as Lalabhaksa. There he is immersed in the river known as Sukra-nadi and forced to drink semen.
(SB 5.26.26)
Similarly, one can go to many ghostly planets and become a Yaksa, Raksa or Pisaca. Pisaca worship is called “black arts” or “black magic.” There are many men who practice this black art, and they think that it is spiritualism, but such activities are completely materialistic.
(Bhagavadgita 9.25)
There are many tantric followers who, wishing to eat meat and drink wine, practice the black art of worshiping the goddess Bhavani in a crematorium. Such fools also consider this bhavani-puja to be as good as worship of Lord Krsna in devotional service. But such abominable tantric activities performed by so-called svamis and yogis are herein condemned by Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He declares that such bhavani-puja for drinking wine and eating meat quickly plunges one into hellish life. The method of worship itself is already hellish, and its results must also be hellish and nothing more.
(Adi 17.52)
In the Malabar district, a section of the brahmanas are known as Nambudari brahmanas, and the Bhattatharis are their priests. Bhattatharis know many tantric black arts, such as the art of killing a person, of bringing him under submission, and of destroying or devastating him. They are very expert in these black arts, and one such Bhattathari bewildered the personal servant of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu while the servant accompanied the Lord in His travels through South India. Somehow or other Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu delivered this Krsnadasa from the clutches of the Bhattathari. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is well known as Patita-pavana, the savior of all fallen souls, and He proved this in His behavior toward His personal servant, Krsnadasa, whom He saved. Sometimes the word Bhattathari is misspelled in Bengal as Bhattamari.
(Madhya 1.112)
Therefore, anyone who has any desire or aspiration for satisfying his senses by becoming more and more important, either in the material sense or in the spiritual sense, cannot actually relish the really sweet taste of devotional service. Srila Rupa Gosvami has therefore compared possessing these bhukti (material) and mukti (liberation) desires with being influenced by the black art of a witch: in both cases, one is in trouble. Bhukti means material enjoyment, and mukti means to become freed from material anxiety and to become one with the Lord. These desires are compared to being haunted by ghosts and witches, because while these aspirations for material enjoyment or spiritual oneness with the Supreme remain, no one can relish the actual transcendental taste of devotional service.
(NoD 3: Eligibility of the Candidate for Accepting Devotional Service)
After consulting with his demoniac ministers, Kamsa instructed a witch named Putana, who knew the black art of killing small children by ghastly sinful methods, to kill all kinds of children in the cities, villages and pasturing grounds. Such witches can play their black art only where there is no chanting or hearing of the holy name of Krsna. It is said that wherever the chanting of the holy name of Krsna is done, even negligently, all bad elements — witches, ghosts and dangerous calamities — immediately disappear. And this is certainly true of the place where the chanting of the holy name of Krsna is done seriously — especially in Vrndavana when the Supreme Lord was personally present. Therefore, the doubts of Nanda Maharaja were certainly based on affection for Krsna. Actually there was no danger from the activities of Putana, despite her powers. Such witches are called khecari, which means they can fly in the sky. This black art of witchcraft is still practiced by some women in the remote northwestern side of India. They can transfer themselves from one place to another on the branch of an uprooted tree. Putana knew this witchcraft, and therefore she is described in the Bhagavatam as khecari.
(KB 6: Putana Killed)
According to the methods of black art mantras instructed in the tantras, if the mantra fails to kill the enemy, then, because it must kill someone, it kills the original creator. This is the way of the demons: the demons create something to kill God, but by the same weapon the demons themselves are killed.
(KB 66: The Deliverance of Paundraka and the King of Kasi)
It is actual for the materialistic person that there is an animal, during the daytime she is witch, and at night she is tigress. The witches, they also, by their black art, they suck the blood of children. Do you know that? There are witches. The Putana was like that. They suck the blood of children by some mantra. It is pointing out to one’s wife, during daytime she is dakini, witches, and at night she is tigress.
So Tulasi dasa says that… Tulasi dasa life is very interesting. Therefore he had very bad experience of his wife. Everyone. Nobody keeps a tigress to suck one’s blood, but Tulasi dasa says, The whole world, being mad, they keep one tigress. In every moment, sucking blood. This criticism is for the materialistic person. Those who are spiritually advancing, this criticism does not apply. For materialistic person, this agent of sucking blood is their happiness. Is their happiness. That is the real fact.
Therefore the Vedic system of civilization is seventy-five percent life of celibacy. In the brahmacari system there is no connection with the woman. Student life. Student life, if one remains brahmacari, he becomes determined. His brain becomes very receptive. Therefore in the brahmacari system, complete celibacy, no connection with woman. So up to twenty-five years, if he does not discharge semen, he becomes very stout, strong, and his health is built up for whole life, and he becomes so intelligent that anything he will hear, he will remember immediately.
(Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.3.19 — June 15, 1972, Los Angeles)
Srila Rupa Gosvami has therefore compared possessing these bhukti [material] and mukti [liberation] desires with being influenced by the black art of a witch. In both cases, one is in trouble.
(The Nectar of Devotion — January 29, 1973, Calcutta)