What kind of people adopt this profession?

This is not a simple question. Actually various people adopt this profession. Mostly it is transferred from one generation to the next generation in the same family. “It is the heritage of our family”, most Black magician say. If someone father was a Black magician or Pir the son is also a Black magician or Pir. Father transfers all his knowledge to son so this chain continues. As depicted in this interview

“I got knowledge from my father. The spiritual powers and piousness is in our blood. my grandfather (Kulim mullah Shah) was from Gurdaspur. There he cleaned a haunted villa from jinn’s. He has most spiritual powers of all of us. He transferred all his knowledge to my father. My father helped the people all his life after moving to Pakistan. I learnt this knowledge from my father’s note books, directly from my father and Quran. First I served army now I am serving people. I read all the books of my father”. (Personal communication march 17, 2009).
Most of these Black magicians say they are Syed (from the family of holy prophet Muhammad peace be upon him).they cover themselves under Islam and try to prove that they have the blood of holy prophet (peace be upon him) so they have the right to explain Islam according to their thinking. Most of them are not even Syed. It is just to impress their clients to enjoy the higher social status of being Syed because it is generally believed that Syed are superior to any other cast.
The other people who adopt this profession are those who cannot do anything in society for their living but they have good quality to satisfy the people and earn their trust. So they claim to have supernatural powers and adopt this profession. People actually having the knowledge of these things may also adopt this profession but it is still to be proven.