witchery
Americannoun
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witcheries
plural
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witchcraft; magic.
Accusations of witchery and spiritual possession tore the community apart.
These photos, taken at a local Sabbat, reveal a diverse and complex spectrum of contemporary witchery.
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magical influence; fascination; charm.
I was captivated by the witchery of her beauty.
noun
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the practice of witchcraft
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magical or bewitching influence or charm
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But its good witchery also contextualizes the quest for sanity in mad times like ours with comforting observations about occultism’s role during eras of social upheaval.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
I’ll take the cacao-goji bars, and the coconut oil, and whatever other witchery he performs to keep his NFL-battered 40-year-old body going.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2018
It doesn’t open its eyes with its witchery.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
A little brook is a fascinating object to persons unaccustomed to its coaxing, vagrant witcheries.
From Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson
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
What wild imagination ever conceived of such witcheries; and what power could command their materialization in the North Woods?
From Joyce of the North Woods by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock
Kitty Brett had boldly set his words at defiance, and the priest had boldly entered the house he had been forbidden, and baptized and anointed, and practiced what other witcheries he had no business.
From Hubert's Wife A Story for You by Minnie Mary Lee
"But it's more to the point that Jenny recovered, and Aunt Nabby was never again known to carry on any of her witcheries."
From Brenda's Ward A Sequel to 'Amy in Acadia' by Helen Leah Reed
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