What's the difference between warlockry and witchcraft?
Warlockry
Definition:
(n.) Impishness; magic.
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Witchcraft
Definition:
(n.) The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits.
(n.) Power more than natural; irresistible influence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
(2) Bikubi's fear of witchcraft was mingled with a strange kind of arrogance.
(3) A senior Haitian diplomat was caught on camera claiming the earthquake would be good for his country and appearing to blame the catastrophe on "witchcraft".
(4) Having examined this system as a whole, the author devotes his attention to a particular set of etiological categories, those which associate illness with witchcraft (nocturnal illnesses).
(5) Detectives said other children in Britain had been subjected to terrible ordeals after being accused of witchcraft, and children's charities and campaigners called for more to be done to make carers and churches aware of possible abuse.
(6) The majority of these works contain the implicit or explicit assumption that witchcraft was a cruel, irrational delusion that resulted in the deaths of perhaps hundreds of thousands or innocent victims (Anderson, 1970).
(7) An accusation of witchcraft by Ms Kisanga's eight-year-old son began child B's ordeal.
(8) "The pastor will say: 'No matter what your problems, I can solve them by protecting you against the evil forces of witchcraft'.
(9) The two dimensions of witchcraft and of sorcery, though distinct, are seen to be essentially related to one another.
(10) As all good students of the Harry Potter saga know well, Muggles are not usually allowed at Hogwarts school of witchcraft of wizardry.
(11) Giving evidence through a French interpreter, Kelly said the pair were fixated on the idea that the three siblings were practising witchcraft.
(12) Immediately, accusations of witchcraft arose; many teams across central and western Africa are known to employ the services of witchdoctors to put curses on their opponents.
(13) In the case of "kokwana" it is said that the snake, "sent" to the child through witchcraft, "eats" the child's food and the child itself.
(14) Witchcraft had preoccupied Bikubi from an early age.
(15) Many Congolese people consider mental illness as a spiritual problem; belief in witchcraft is widespread.
(16) Each referent (divinity, ancestor, magic, witchcraft, etc.)
(17) The rural Xhosa people of South Africa have retained social cohesion through traditional custom, purity of language and the dominant role of ancestor worship, traditional medicine and witchcraft in life-style, beliefs and ceremonies.
(18) The indication was abdominal pain in 4 cases, infertility and abdominal pain in one and prophylaxis against witchcraft in the other.
(19) But child-protection specialists are increasingly coming across a kind of case that few textbooks have prepared them for: abuse of children related to belief in witchcraft.
(20) "He was reporting that his family at the time feared that if he went around saying these things he would be labelled as being affected by witchcraft."