A person who practices bad magic or sorcery; a charlatan or fraudulent magician; a person engaged in evil or harmful magical practices.
From Greek kakos (bad) and magician, referring to a practitioner of bad or evil magic. The term combines demonological and magical terminology from medieval and early modern contexts.
In witch trial documents, 'cacomagician' was used to describe accused witches—distinguishing them from 'good' magic, which reveals how people used language to separate acceptable from dangerous power.
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