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witchery

[wich-uh-ree] / ˈwɪtʃ ə ri /






NOUN
enchantment
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NOUN
sortilege
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And while it’s fair to say that good witchery may still not be in the cards for that particular family clan, it is found in a new generation.

From Washington Post Sep. 30, 2022

Yet for a good portion of this book, the actual witchery falls away.

From New York Times Aug. 9, 2022

Her portraits re-envision witchery by celebrating the spectrum of identities and spiritual practices found in today’s witch community.”

From Washington Times Oct. 6, 2021

In their absence, Sibley decided to employ kitchen witchery to discern who or what had possessed the girls.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 22, 2015

“You don’t have to be afraid of him. Some people act like witchery is responsible for everything that happens, when actually witchery only manipulates a small portion.”

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

No, I shall not die happy if I do not see at least one of them—" "Children, children, put no faith in such witcheries; above all never wish to witness any.

From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue

The mysteries Of their sweet hauntings and their witcheries Are not more subtle than this jewel clear, Are not more cold and dead.

From Sonnets and Songs by Helen Hay Whitney

Certain it is, however, that her witcheries effectually subjugated Romney and Hayley.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook

He is taken by her witcheries and beauty, and the page, by the lady's maid, falls into the same mistake as his master, who thinks he is there only one night.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

Then he got her to tell him other things of the Indian country, things of ghost-haunted places and strange witcheries, with which they confused the game and the fish.

From That Girl Montana by Marah Ellis Ryan




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