Black magic and control: the myth that keeps gaining followers

Black magic as a tool of control: the myth that won't go away

Global power no longer needs hitmen: a ritual is enough. That is the thesis gaining ground in conspiracy circles, where the sorcerer has replaced the tycoon as the manager of evil. The symptoms are always the same: a dizzy spell right after posting an awkward video, a medical appointment that falls on an ominous date, a chain of people crossing your path as if a script had written them.

The mechanism has its own internal logic. First, the signal: when someone becomes a target, their life seems to improve. Then, the twist: that very good fortune is twisted into a trap there is no escaping from. The bad stuff, they say, always arrives disguised as good. There is no proof, of course. But for those who have lived it, the absence of proof is precisely the proof.

The invisible enemies are organizing

The bestiary has changed. It is no longer just "the Illuminati": the cast now includes the "children of the sun," the "Luciferians" and a legion of practitioners who, according to an estimate circulating in these circles, would come close to 30% of the population. The figure is impossible to verify, but it serves its purpose: anyone could be one of them, even the person smiling at you in the supermarket queue.

The most elaborate part of the story links black magic with organized harassment. Anyone who gets involved in certain matters starts noticing impossible "synchronicities," people who show up again and again, coded messages in street furniture. Some call it gang stalking; the more mystical call it an operation carried out from outside the simulation. The goal is to drive you mad while you remain sane.

The missing man who feeds the legend

Among the reference cases, the most notable is that of Pedro Bustamante, a content creator who spent years publishing videos and books about these alleged hidden elites. Overnight, everything disappeared: no explanation, no farewell. The versions range from a direct threat to a personal decision to stop spreading antiestéticar. But the community leans toward the murkiest explanation: black magic was being done to him, and he realized it in time. What remains, as a memento, is a final video recorded in a park in Berlin and the promise of a symposium in Cádiz that never took place.

Artificial intelligence is in on it too

Even technology has bowed to the theory. Those researching these topics claim that AI assistants respond with evasions and refer them to psychiatric consultation if asked directly about black magic. The trick, they explain, is to ask them to help with a work of fiction: then they do speak without filters. The anecdote, whether true or not, reinforces the idea that the algorithm itself is part of the cover-up.

The underlying problem is that the narrative is bulletproof: no experience can contradict it. Improvement is the bait, misfortune is the attack, indifference is the camouflage. If the trend continues, more and more people will see conspiracies in the calendar, in nurses wearing butterfly-print scrubs and in appointments that fall on September 11 at 9:11. Or maybe that is already the plan; in this business, no one admits to being the magician pulling the strings.