incantation

How To Use incantation In A Sentence

• Any spell with an incantation has the ability to backfire if even one word in the chant is pronounced wrong.
• Chanting - or incantation - has always been a technique of sorcery.
• Around the fire, tribal elders chanted incantations.
• Among the Eskimo the _angakok_, or shaman, trains his child from infancy in the art of sorcery, taking him upon his knee during his incantations and conjurations. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day
• Along with the spells, charms, incantations, and potion recipes, there were manuals, instructions, factoids, magical messages, and even stories.
• Just as he started the incantation of the escape spell, the door swung open.
• No; this was the incantation reserved for souls athirst for fame, of virtue emulous. Memorabilia
• That said, I do think that the other side is silly too – these forms of ceremonial deism are meaningless (and indeed, devalue Christianity by making it into a rote incantation, which is fine with me). The Volokh Conspiracy » “What Sort of Burden Does It Place on the University … to Strike ‘of Our Lord’ from the Diploma?”
• He was gaping at Joanna as if she were an apparition, one to be warded off with incantations and henbane. HERE BE DRAGONS
• Incantatione orti incantatione curari debent; if they be caused by incantation, [2803] they must be cured by incantation. Anatomy of Melancholy