(n.) Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author encountered a patient who had undergone various sorcery and wizardry practices.
(2) Its sheiks and warlords, the fawned-upon princes who once did as they wished – buying up most of Streatham in the morning, beheading someone for sorcery in the afternoon – well, they’re dust and shadow now.
(3) People will be turned off by the swords and the sorcery and, most of all, by the names."
(4) illness of sorcery, illness of the shades or ancestors and "natural" illness or illness that "just happens".
(5) These have spawned a decadent and west-friendly royal family that preside over a society where clerics run amok, where imams rant against infidels, religious minorities are oppressed, education is heavily slanted towards religion and where people are beheaded for sorcery.
(6) Thus rainmaking and sorcery control, the principal services in traditional African societies, are the focus of this study.
(7) We describe the patterns of illness attributed to sorcery among 209 patients who attended a special clinic in south India.
(8) The two dimensions of witchcraft and of sorcery, though distinct, are seen to be essentially related to one another.
(9) Case histories of black Americans who believe their illness has been caused by sorcery have been reported with increasing frequency in the clinical literature.
(10) The older patients with a mean age of 29.7 years tended to believe the cause was sorcery (puripuri); the younger patients did not.
(11) Within this general aetiological frame, serious diarrhoeal disease of infants is usually seen as sorcery related.
(12) This type of financial sorcery does not come cheap but Blair has pulled off the magic before, having acted as an intermediary between Irish property investor Patrick McKillen and Sheikh Hamad over a potential £70m hotel investment.
(13) Any police force would be shaken by the sight, but the grisly tableau's arrangement seemed designed to instill terror in young officers from parts of southern Mexico where superstition and belief in sorcery are common.
(14) These concerns centre on the competing possibilities that the death has been caused either by sorcery or by chronic and heavy consumption of alcohol.
(15) In the ensuing ethnic dialog, Meratus shamans are cast as perpetrators as well as curers of the kind of illness-causing sorcery that makes Banjar most vulnerable.
(16) The rootwork system combines a belief in the magical causation of illness with cures by sorcery and an empiric tradition stressing the natural causation of illness with cures by herbs and medicines.
(17) The results of the study are as follows: the prevalence rate was highest among children under the age of 5 (13.5%); diarrhoea related deaths in relation to total mortality was found to be highest, both in under 5 (41.7%) and above 5 (27.3%); 33.1% of the women believed that diarrhea was caused by the "Will Of God", 11.5% believed that it was caused by sorcery; 29.5% attributed diarrhea to poor sanitation; 63.8% recognized the dangers of diarrhea and realized that it could cause death.
(18) Notions of sorcery, taboo violation and contamination were often expressed when describing the etiologies of locally-recognized sexually transmitted diseases.
(19) He had a brush with big-budget Hollywood film-making in 2006 with the lead role in poorly received swords and sorcery fantasy Eragon .
(20) The interplay of magic and technology works smoothly because, basically, sorcery is often just an incendiary weapon that does expansive damage – sort of a supernatural airstrike.
Witch
Definition:
(n.) A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.
(n.) One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, esp. with the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; -- now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well.
(n.) An ugly old woman; a hag.
(n.) One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person; also, one given to mischief; -- said especially of a woman or child.
(n.) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
(n.) The stormy petrel.
(v. t.) To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.
Example Sentences:
(1) I fear that I will have to go through another witch-hunt in order to apply for this benefit."
(2) "I have been an evil witch, but now I can set light to the house and die happy."
(3) The experience of having had intercourse with the devil has in the past been regarded as evidence that the individual is a witch.
(4) Smith, a climate change sceptic who has also subpoenaed government scientists’ communications, has accused the attorney generals of a political witch-hunt and for causing a “chilling impact on scientific research and development”.
(5) In 2005, four years after Adam's body was found, two women and a man were convicted of child cruelty for torturing and threatening to kill an orphaned refugee who they claimed was a witch.
(6) The Witch Is Dead, the Wizard of Oz song which became the focus of an anti-Thatcher campaign on Facebook, was not just about where it would chart – but how much of it the BBC would play.
(7) A couple have been jailed for life for torturing and drowning a teenage boy they accused of being a witch.
(8) Leave voters, including a soldier, a mother expecting a “Brexit baby” due nine months after the vote, a rare chicken breeder, a witch, and a hammer-wielding Nigel Farage fan, have all been chosen to represent the various faces of Brexit on a new vase by the artist Grayson Perry .
(9) On Christmas Day 2010, Kristy's killer spoke to the boy's father, Pierre, accusing the 15-year-old of being a witch and threatening to kill him.
(10) Social unrest has become more and more likely, leading to an increasingly bold witch-hunt by the government against opposition voices .
(11) Lee denied the charges, saying he had never heard of the Revolutionary Organisation and denouncing the trial as a politically motivated witch-hunt by intelligence officials.
(12) The government has launched a separate royal commission into alleged union corruption, which unions have argued is a politically motivated “witch hunt”.
(13) Sure, the season’s story, which focuses on Vanessa Ives’s struggle to decode the “memoirs of the devil” and fight a hissing viper pit of Lucifer’s witches, may be pure pulp burlesque, but that’s just the first layer of Penny Dreadful’s charm.
(14) I could be the most beautiful drag queen in the world and the most evil witch of a person.
(15) Human rights campaigners have called on South Korea’s military to end its “witch-hunt” against gay servicemen, after an investigation into dozens of men prompted debate among presidential candidates over the country’s poor record on LGBT rights.
(16) "If we don't push home the idea that calling a child a witch will have grave consequences, then we will continue to have these kind of cases," said Ariyo.
(17) At one point, Evans was accused of bullying staff 20 years ago – a claim he said was ridiculous and the result of a witch-hunt.
(18) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
(19) After working in a second-rate singing act with her older sisters and changing her name from Frances Gumm to Judy Garland, she was taken to Hollywood at the age of 13 by her fiercely ambitious mother (whom she later called "the real Wicked Witch of the West").
(20) He tried to capture its character – which he described as a “diabolical contraption, a dusty hunk of electric and mechanical hardware that reminded me of the disturbing 1950’s Quatermass science fiction television series” – in a near-lifesize two metre by three metre Portrait of a Dead Witch, which he also intended as a joke about the contemporary craze for computer-generated art.