Belief in the occult goes back decades my family. Although know one before me got into black magic, there were some pretty strange practices. My grandmother was a psychic, or so she claimed. She believed that she could predict futures by reading people's palms. She also consulted astrology to some degree, and was involved with several other occult doctrines as well. My mother was an herbalist and my father used to have visions when he was a kid. Neither of them really took magic as a serious part of their lives, but they couldn't deny its influence.
I have always been drawn to the darker side of things, so it is natural that after a while I started to experiment with black magic. I actually started off with some voodoo magic meant to protect me.