Sorcery
Sorcery
#992. Sorcery. -- N. sorcery; occult art, occult sciences; magic, the
black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy[obs]; demonology,
demonomy[obs], demonship[obs]; diablerie[Fr], bedevilment; witchcraft,
witchery; glamor; fetishism, fetichism, feticism[obs]; ghost dance,
hoodoo; obi, obiism[obs]; voodoo, voodooism; Shamanism [Esquimaux],
vampirism; conjuration; bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism,
second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism; od force, odylic force[obs];
electrobiology[obs], clairvoyance; spiritualism, spirit rapping, table
turning.
- divination &c. (prediction) 511; sortilege[obs], ordeal, sortes
Virgilianae[obs]; hocus-pocus &c. (deception) 545.
- V. practice sorcery &c.n.; cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm,
enchant; bewitch, bedevil; hoodoo, voodoo; entrance, mesmerize, magnetize;
fascinate &c. (influence) 615; taboo; wave a wand; rub the ring, rub the
lamp; cast a spell; call up spirits, call up spirits from the vasty deep;
raise spirits from the dead.
- Adj. magic, magical; mystic, weird, cabalistic, talismanic,
phylacteric[obs], incantatory; charmed &c. v.; Circean, odylic[obs],
voodoo.