The term Magic has been commonly misunderstood as only a set of
superstitious obscure beliefs, characteristic of an "inferior race", namely
the black race. But what is worse, Black and White magic have been
identified with evil and good practices respectively, performed exclusively
in remote places like Haiti and Jamaica. This paper examines the original
sense of the word, that of an ancestral tradition inherited from the past of
which black people have been stripped, as well as the network of
connections between its forms in the Caribbees and those in the Canary
Islands.
