Occult

Literally, 'hidden'.

A term that mainly refers to all practices dealing with the illicit supernatural contact, such as satanic worship, palm reading, psychic phenomena, tarot card reading, communicating with the dead, witchcraft and black magic.

Some definitions include:

1. A set of mostly unrelated divination and/or spiritual practices or activities that are not part of a person's faith or of any large world religion.

2. A group of mostly unrelated spiritual and/or magical activities, the detailed knowledge of that is kept secret from the general public.

3. An activity that involves elements of divination, evil sorcery, magic and/or supernaturally gained concrete experiences or truths.