ABSTRACT
If a magician has supernatural powers can they be used to attack his enemies? Certainly there is a widespread tradition throughout history of spells and curses being used to injure or even kill people, either enemies of the magician or conjuror, or enemies of the clients who pay him to make the attack. While there are very few accounts of magical attack written from a serious occult point of view, two rather outstanding instances have been documented. The first, and probably the best known, is that related by Dion Fortune in her book Psychic Self Defence, where she tells of an attack upon her by the leader of a magical fraternity. The second account was given by the French novelist J-K Huysmans who was involved with an occult fraternity in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, and who claimed to be the victim of magical attack by Stanislas de Guaita, the leader of a rival magical group.
