abhichara
अभिचार abhicāraHostile or aggressive ritual, sorcery aimed at harming, subjugating or destroying a target; older than tantra, with roots in the Atharvaveda. The tradition itself ringfenced it as dangerous and karmically costly.
Where this term appears
- The Shatkarma: The Six Acts of Tantric Magic Lineages
And running alongside is abhichara , sorcery: spells to harm an enemy, to compel a reluctant lover, to curse a wrongdoer.
- The six acts Treatise
Türstig published a study called "The Indian Sorcery Called Abhicāra " in the Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens in 1985.
- The word, reclaimed or not Treatise
Türstig's study of abhicāra in the Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens for 1985, the only monographic treatment of the category that the six acts systematise, which may well carry the dating argument for…
- Bagalamukhi: The Stiller of Tongues Treatise
Bagalamukhi is heavily marketed in popular practice as an enemy-defeating, lawsuit-winning deity, and that instrumental use shades quickly into abhichara , aggressive ritual aimed at harming others.