Embracing the DarknessAs dusk fell on a misty evening in 1521, Martin Lutherhiding from his enemies at Wartburg Castlefound himself seemingly tormented by demons hurling walnuts at his bedroom window. In a fit of rage, the great reformer threw at the Devil the inkwell from which he was preparing his colossal translation of the Bible. A belieflike Luther'sin the supernatural, and in black magic, has been central to European cultural life for 3000 years. From the Salem witch