evoked

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Evoked is Brer Rabbit, a character descended from African folklore and concocted at the dawn of the Jim Crow era by Joel Chandler Harris.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2019

Maeve Binchy, Writer Who Evoked Ireland, Dies at 72 Maeve Binchy, a newspaperwoman turned best-selling author whose sprawling novels of Ireland portrayed women confronting all manner of adversity, died on Monday in Dublin.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2012

Evoked by the worship of one human heart, passionately sincere, the Ka of Egypt stepped back to visit the material it once informed—the Sand.

From Four Weird Tales by Blackwood, Algernon

Laws, arts, and culture, in that rigid school, Evoked a nation from each savage horde.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various