A record of harmful workings as historical texts actually set them down: quoted from the edition they were printed in, with the page they stand on. Baneful is the older word for magic worked to harm.
These are documents, not instructions. Midnight Spellcraft neither recommends nor condones the use of anything recorded here. Where a working called for something this site will not put in front of a reader, the Archive says what the text asked for and goes no further.