sorcery

Roget-categorie 992

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.5. Religious affections
›› 6.5.4. Acts of religion

#992. Sorcery

zelfstandig naamwoord

sorcery — occult art, occult sciences — magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy^† — demonology, demonomy^†, demonship^† — diablerie [Fr.], bedevilment — witchcraft, witchery — glamor — fetishism, fetichism, feticism^† — ghost dance, hoodoo — obi, obiism^† — voodoo, voodooism — Shamanism (Esquimaux), vampirism — conjuration — bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism — od force, odylic force^† — electrobiology^†, clairvoyance — spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning.
divination etc. (prediction) 511 — sortilege^†, ordeal, sortes Virgilianae^† — hocus-pocus etc. (deception) 545.

werkwoord

practice sorcery etc. n. — cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant — bewitch, bedevil — hoodoo, voodoo — entrance, mesmerize, magnetize — fascinate etc. (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.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

magic, magical — mystic, weird, cabalistic, talismanic, phylacteric^†, incantatory — charmed etc. v. — Circean, odylic^†, voodoo.

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