A Sydney man at the centre of a black magic sex trial denies telling a woman he read a coffee cup which revealed a curse had been placed on her.
Tony Golossian, 63, also denied ever placing any black magic object around the woman's home or arranging for someone else to do it.
The Syrian-born Catholic was giving evidence, some through an Arabic interpreter, at his trial in the NSW District Court on Friday.
The former carpenter, who is on a disability pension, Arthur Psichogios, 40, and his wife Frances Psichogios, 38, have pleaded not guilty to a string of charges.
They mainly relate to sex offences against two women, who are of Greek Orthodox background.
The women have testified that they were told black magic curses had been placed on them and their families.
To rid themselves of the curses, they were told to attend prayer sessions when they were blindfolded and sex took place.
Golossian told the jury he met the first complainant through her boyfriend and she asked him to help her for problems she had associated with "an operation on her head".
On two occasions, he said, he and Arthur Psichogios were in a hotel room with the woman when he conducted a prayer session on her.
He said he put oil on her forehead and her hand, put his right hand on her head and his left on the holy Bible.
"She got a black jumper on her shoulder and she took it and wrap it around her eyes and tied it," he said.
Golossian said he continued his prayer on her and she said: "I feel like a light body ... I feel more better than before and relaxing".
He denied ever having any sexual contact with the woman or ever performing any act with her that was indecent or improper.
Golossian said the woman twice invited herself along when he went to The Entrance, on the NSW central coast, with Arthur Psichogios to go fishing.
Golossian said on the first occasion he fished all through the night, but the other two went off to a unitat one stage.
On the second occasion, he said he confronted Psichogios after he had gone off with the woman again.
"He said: `I got relationship between me and (the woman)'," Colossian said.
Golossian told him he was ashamed as Psichogios was a married man with a family.
He denied telling the woman she had to have sex with Psichogios to break the curse and that it should be videoed.
The jury has been told of a sex video, which the woman has said she was told to look happy in and not cry if she wanted to break the curse.
The trial is continuing before Judge Penelope Hock.
