Sorcery and Witchcraft are “sorceries, and witchcrafts, and magics” present in the land. “The power of the evil one was wrought upon all the face of the land” (Mormon 1:19).
People who did not belong to the church “did indulge themselves in sorceries” (Alma 1:32). No man could keep that which was his own because of “the thieves, and the robbers, and the murderers, and the magic art, and the witchcraft which was in the land” (Mormon 2:10).