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• He’s not Wiccan or pagan, religions that are rooted in witchcraft.2024 October 26, Scottie Andrew, “Witches walk among us — but they’re not like the fictional ones you grew up with”, in CNN, archived from…. From the entry pagan
• He writes and directs yet another Witchcraft movie about a serial killer, detectives, strippers, aardvarking, and witchcraft.2023, Steve Hutchison, The Worst Horror Movies 2. From the entry aardvarking
• Under-craft, witchcraft, call it what you will, but it is indeed poisonous.2008, John Dickinson, The Fatal Child. From the entry undercraft
• Witchcraft, heresy, and counterfeiting formed a triptych in popular imagination and in the law.1994, John L. Brooke, The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry triptych
• It's a fragile, whifty to-do -- never serious, never very funny --- which likens love to witchcraft.1986, Joe Baltake, Jack Lemmon: his films and career, page 93. From the entry whifty
• Strictly speaking, the belief in demonianism was distinct from that in witchcraft.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 458. From the entry demonianism
• Recently in Sydney we met a male witch who claimed that witchcraft was his full-time occupation.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 69. From the entry witch
• More than that, we were told that witchcraft is more than just an attempt to practise magic.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 51. From the entry Old Religion
• “Old lady of witchcraft, put air in my scrote and allow this humble witch to float, float, float!”2017 April 17, Joe Chandler & Nic Wegener, “The Witches of Langley” (17:05 from the start), in American Dad!, season 14, episode 9, spoken…. From the entry scrote
• He said nothing bad of Brunhild, yet he accused Fredegund of a great many crimes, including murder, sacrilege, witchcraft and treason.2015, E. T Dailey, Queens, Consorts, Concubines, page 119. From the entry Brunhild
• Wiccaphobia may be more of a problem for contemporary witches (or for those accused of witchcraft) than for wiccaphobes themselves.2014, Sara Latta, Scared Stiff. From the entry wiccaphobe
• The seemingly innocent Maypole is a relic of witchcraft.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 93. From the entry maypole
• There are moments in a witchcraft ceremony when a god is believed to enter the body of the officiant.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 72. From the entry officiant
• Certainly he was innocent of prolonged interest in, let alone any practice of, diabolism, witchcraft, demonism, or such cult.1957, Muriel Spark, The Comforters, New York: Avon, published 1965, Part 2, Chapter 8, p. 171. From the entry demonism
• The Lisu of the northern Thai highlands feared witchcraft acutely but relied on service magicians or private counter-magic to keep them at bay.2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, published 2018, page 25. From the entry counter-magic
• Deconcocted and mixed with certain other barks, sass was used in ritual ordeals to test, punish, or absolve those accused of witchcraft.2006, Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, Deeper Shades of Purple: Womanism in Religion and Society. From the entry deconcoct
• Meditation has an important part in many witchcraft ceremonies, at least in the coven of which I am the Magistra or leader.1989, Lois Bourne, Conversations with a Witch, Robert Hale, published 2014, →ISBN. From the entry magistra
• The elderly women who practiced herbalism and administered belladonna (a pain killer) to pregnant women were apt to be accused of witchcraft.1976 December 11, Tommi Avicolli, “The Middle Ages: Lest We Forget...”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 11. From the entry belladonna
• By what is called “sympathetic magic” by witchcraft historians, she is said to have been able to “kill her victims from a distance”.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 91. From the entry sympathetic magic
• Full brothers are not often suspected although half-brothers may be accused of witchcraft and agnatic cousins and more distant members of a man's minimal lineage are not unusual suspects.2013, John Middleton, E. H. Winter, Witchcraft and Sorcery in East Africa, page 203. From the entry agnatic
• In "The Dunwich Horror" the other-dimensional creatures are thwarted by the proper incantations, while witchcraft and the new Einsteinian universe appear cheek-by-jowl in "Dreams in the Witch House."2012, Darrell Schweitzer, Discovering H.P. Lovecraft, page 9. From the entry cheek-by-jowl
• He was more dangerous than the plump satisfied ones, he was so sure of the value of his witchcraft, the holy oils and chrisms and unctions.2000, Joseph O'Neill, The Black Shore, page 62. From the entry chrism
• One authority on witchcraft says that the boo-hag is more powerful than the ordinary hag, but all sea island Negroes do not concur in this opinion.1941, South Carolina Folk Tales: Stories of Animals and Supernatural Beings, page 47. From the entry boo hag
• Any wretch who claimed ancestry among the people of the moon in those days, would have been convicted of witchcraft and burned at the stake without mercy."1933 February, Julian Kendig, Jr., “The Eternal Mask”, in Amazing Stories, volume 7, number 11, page 1036, column 2. From the entry Lunite
• You can get down into a region which is akin to the popular idea of witchcraft, it is dishonest to deny it." "Like attracts like," explained Mrs.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry like
• Just as in Scandinavia the parasitic rowan is deemed a countercharm to sorcery, so in Germany the parasitic mistletoe is still commonly considered a protection against witchcraft.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 282. From the entry countercharm
• In the Middle Ages, when witchcraft and thaumaturgic practices were rampant over Europe, sorceresses did a roaring trade in magic brews designed to excite the passion or to preserve affection.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 189. From the entry brew

Meaning of witchcraft

1. noun The practice of witches; magic, sorcery, or the use of supernatural powers to influence or predict events.
2. noun Black magic; the use of witchcraft for evil means.
3. noun Something, such as an advanced technology, that seems almost magical.

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How do you use witchcraft in a sentence?

Witchcraft is used as a noun. For example: “Wiccans believe in a modernised form of witchcraft.”

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“Wiccans believe in a modernised form of witchcraft.”

What does witchcraft mean?

Witchcraft means the practice of witches; magic, sorcery, or the use of supernatural powers to influence or predict events.