There's bad magic in there, too powerful for any of us to challenge tonight," the baker said cryptically.
They say there is a bad magic on the ship.
Better to believe in bad magic than to think the woman was suffering that much.
There's lots of bad magic in the river channel, and very little in the solid rock.
But the bad magic was gone with the good.
And who knows, maybe she did her bad magic.
No matter how benevolent the meaning of the lyrics, it was being perverted somehow into bad magic.
"And that's the sign of an unhappy dog," Zoe said, "which makes for bad magic."
That sounds like pretty bad magic to me.
Lira wouldn't come any closer than that to the *Captain's home, which she believed to be infected with very bad magic.