karakia

How to use karakia in a sentence

• The brahma answers almost to the Maori karakia or incantation and charm.

  Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 | Andrew Lang

• He came on, mumbling and grumbling a perfectly unintelligible karakia or incantation.

  Old New Zealand | Earl of Pembroke.

• He assumes the shape of any animal at will, or flies in the air, all by virtue of the karakia or incantation.

  Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 | Andrew Lang

• The word karakia which Heke made use of does not mean prayer as we understand that word.

  Old New Zealand | Earl of Pembroke.

• With much solemn karakia and propitiatory sacrifice, they tremblingly crept into the precincts of the bay.

  Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) | William Delisle Hay