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
The palm of the glove contained a healing incantation burned in gold.
As this incantation proceeds, small flickering tongues of fire start forth on every side; they soon rise higher and higher, roaring and crackling until, as Wotan disappears, they form a fiery barrier all around the sleeping Walkyrie: -- Stories of the Wagner Opera
And this can be as destructive to enjoyment and adventure as inflated claims or solemn incantations.
And with Kyrithin's continued incantation, the light was growing brighter with every passing second.
If one character, one pause, of the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work. Fred Brooks quote: The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff.""
The word `barn" dominated his mind: he fixed on it, muttered it like an incantation. IN LOVE AND WAR
Both were then attached to the nail of the ring finger of a virgin who said a special series of words - an incantation, a spell or a prayer perhaps.
Back before either one of us was twenty Cooper Renner coined the incantation “thrice — and it is so”. Alert | Revamped Site | Terrorkitten | clusterflock
The rites employed among the clam-diggers on the New York coast, the witch-charms they use, the incantations, cutting of flesh, fire-oblations, meaningless formulae, united with sacrosanct expressions of the church, are all on a par with the religion of the lower classes as depicted in Theocritus and the Atharvan. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
People use various methods to protect themselves from it and to treat the symptoms: amulets, charms, talismans, spells, incantations, vows and sacrifices, and so on.
Yet behind the irony in the final rhythmic incantation we read an emptiness that is neither spiritual sustenance, nor love.
But this particular craze has nothing to do with the incantation of spells, or the brewing of noxious potions.
Von Otter, a patrician blonde with a voice of arctic whiteness, gamely sight-read a tribal incantation and a refrain about rowing out to the reef to fish, both written in some outlandish language.
That Paulson should have gone down on one knee to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as if prayer and beseechment might get the job done, strikes me as further evidence that sheer superstition and incantation have played their part in all this. America the Banana Republic
Study of primitive peoples who believe in the supernatural can produce many examples of the results of incantations, potions, charms, rites or invocations.
Again there is nothing of magic, or casting of spells, or of incantation.
Because Faustus has blasphemed against God in his incantations, Mephistophilis has come to see if he can claim Faustus' soul.
Upon reaching the top, Shield once again chanted an incantation and opened the doorway to the outside world.
Its effect is the same as that of soul-stirring, soul-elevating scriptural incantation or a cascade of melody.
Stepping back from Vincent, Uturlié stabbed the third dagger he was holding into the floor at his feet, and then stood over it, taking on a stance used for incantation.
Evil cannot always be repelled by incantation, by demonstrations, by social analysis or by psychoanalysis.
The phrase agnus dei qui tolis pecata mundi is used as an incantation in which every word more or less incomprehensible has a sacred character so that if one should say that he despises qui tolis, it would be considered a blasphemy because the Qui Tolis is something sacred or divine. The Legacy of Ignorantism
To me, that means clinical psychology, not astrology, incantations, witchcraft, or palmistry.
The continual murderer in is pursued by police after the toy store, discovers has no way out, but reads the evil spirit incantation to attach own soul to side "the good child" on the rag baby body.
Is rhetoric, as the ancients posed, a form of incantation or magic?
Recycling is useful both as incantation and as ingratiation.
The marriage over the tongs is a thing to scandalise any well-brought-up person, for before he joined the couple's hands, Jimmy jumped about in a startling way, uttering wild gibberish, and after the ceremony was over there was rough work, with incantations and blowing on pipes. Auld Licht Idylls
Other tools common in Witchcraft are altars, cauldrons, salt, and herbs or other botanicals, and incantations.
Her qualifications as white witch were boundless cunning, equally boundless good nature, considerable knowledge of human weaknesses, some mesmeric power, some skill in "yarbs," as she called her simples, a firm faith in the virtue of her own incantations, and the faculty of holding her tongue. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth
By repeated incantation, the Five Conditions have acquired a hieratic authority.
The work is full of magic incantations and spells and is now known to be of European origin.
The devotees sing bhajans, chant incantations, and priests perform aarti and puja, invoking the blessings of Shiva, the divine, the pure, the absolute.
He cleansed the water, scattered consecrated herbs, and chanted ancient incantations.
Ipsukuk fell to weeping for a son lost long years agone in the ice, and the shaman made incantation and prophecy. A HYPERBOREAN BREW
Such practitioners, known as curanderos, use herb teas and poultices, traditional exercises, incantations, and magical touching to heal.
Jacob, according to the testimony of Origen (contra Celsum, iv. 33), were used by numerous non-Jewish magicians; and the "Solomonic" incantations were considered as especially efficacious. The Miracles of Jesus
This old volume was full of ancient secrets of magical healing, useful incantations and protective charms.
Letting loose with his big sound, often worrying a phrase into incantation, he worked toward a prayerful froth. NYT > Home Page
But Garber's greatest strength is old-school close reading: she traces the idea of doubleness in "Macbeth" from the witches 'familiar incantation ( "Double, double, toil and trouble") to the hero's divided consciousness, and finding "The Tempest's" theme of cyclical repetition reflected even in the passing reference to Caliban's mother, the witch Sycorax, "with age and envy ... grown into a hoop. SHAKESPEARE 101: A+
Others, that they may colourably and cunningly hide their grosse ignorance, when they know not the cause of the disease, referre it unto charmes, witchcrafts, magnifical incantations and sorcerie. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
The story works like a spell or incantation, lulling you with plausible detail into accepting a slightly warped big picture.
Neu desint epulis rosæ"; particularly as the shade we deal with can be evoked only by peculiar incantations, -- only the heralding of certain precise claims will this monarch listen to as the just _inferiæ_, the fitting sacrifice or hecatomb of our homage. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
It is difficult to hear the Jomon incantations over the din of the helicopter, which Tange tells the reader he used to inspect the shrine.
This is an incantation that can spell anybody.
Madame Wang was sitting in Mrs. Hsüeh's apartments, whither she had just crossed, when she perceived Chia Huan come back from school, and she bade him transcribe incantations out of the Chin Kang Canon and intonate them. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books
For one thing, this is a whiskery, reflexive old incantation of the Right, that long ago lost any very vivid meaning.
Hence it is necessary for us to realise that these rude and simple worshippers, of all the different forms of worship, really would be bewildered by the ritual dances and elaborate ceremonial antics of John Bull, as by the superstitious forms and almost supernatural incantations of most of what we call plain English. The New Jerusalem
charming incantations
He somehow realized that the proper incantations had not been made " the conjurement had not been completed " life had not been fully restored to this corpse. The Bloody Crown of Conan
The liliths are known particularly from the Aramaic incantation bowls from Sassanian and early Islamic Iraq and Iran (roughly 400 – 800 C.E.). Lilith.
Mr. Mason has published another drama, called Caractacus; there are some incantations poetical enough, and odes so Greek as to have very little meaning. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
In this connection it is interesting to note that, according to one authority, the word carminative, a remedy which relieves pain "like a charm," is derived from the Latin _carminare_, to use incantations. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
He cleansed the water, scattered consecrated herbs, and chanted ancient incantations.
But inside, there were all kinds of unbelievable spells, incantations, charms, potion recipes, and information about magic.
Question: The seven word incantation that changed Mitt to Mutt. Spokesman: Romney Not "Equating Or Comparing Anyone" When Holding "Obama Osama" Sign
He started chanting the incantation of a dark spell, full of ugly guttural sounds.
Short-term exigencies ruled as policy makers invoked familiar economic incantations: "there is no alternative" or "the alternatives are worse. MarketWatch.com - Top Stories
`Not indelible," he said as an incantation, and was rewarded when the printing began to fade as the cloth rubbed over it. STONE CITY
With great solemnity, they prepared the sleeping body of Miri with magic charms and incantations, and called upon the ancestors and the gods to call away Karkameni.
This is an incantation that can spell anybody.
Abruptly she'd lifted the knife from my belly and was brandishing it above me, weaving it back and forth in time to her incantation. NIGHT SISTERS
Such features are very prominent in nursery rhymes and ballads, where frequently pleasure lies in rhythm, incantation, and strangeness of image.
If there were witches, who could blight your crops, make you sterile, and turn you into a newt just by an incantation or two, then of course we should hunt them.
She reads a simple incantation, and before anyone can say "Hocus Pocus!" or twitch a nose all three girls are changed.
It is only after the worship, blood rites and kola dance of the resurrected rebel Bhoothas that the focus of the festivities shifts to the respectable courtyard and the brahmin priest sprinkles purificatory water and begins his ritual incantation. Archive 2006-07-01
Such features are very prominent in nursery rhymes and ballads, where frequently pleasure lies in rhythm, incantation, and strangeness of image.
Nucharangua shook him off, and quickly chanted the incantation for the cage spell.
He was gaping at Joanna as if she were an apparition, one to be warded off with incantations and henbane. HERE BE DRAGONS
And of course, along with these loathsome ceremonies, go incantations, chants, dances, and frenzies, sometimes ending in catalepsis. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
He somehow realized that the proper incantations had not been made'the conjurement had not been completed'life had not been fully restored to his corpse. The Hour of the Dragon
A bearded sorcerer is busy invoking spirits with his incantation, his glazed eyes staring into the distance and all aglow in the dark.
If they speak to women readers of their personal vicissitudes in a way that is helpful, if they offer incantations for women to use in time of trouble, so much the better.
She could skin the ordinary kahuna lapaau (medicine man) when it came to praying to Lonopuha and Koleamoku; read dreams and visions and signs and omens and indigestions to beat the band; make the practitioners under the medicine god, Maiola, look like thirty cents; pull off a pule hoe incantation that would make them dizzy; and she claimed to a practice of kahuna hoenoho, which is modern spiritism, second to none. SHIN-BONES
The self's figuration as a trajectory that collapses or can't move ahead finds its formal parallel in Jarnot's insistent, incessant use of repetition, anaphora, litany, and incantation.
The combination of the two gods is particularly frequent in the so-called incantation texts. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
The Book of Psalms is the great oasis in which a desert people gathers to pour out its complaints, fears, hopes; the Psalms are prayers, songs, incantations, and perhaps even soliloquies. The Elegant Variation:
Coupled with fowl and cattle sacrifices, the bhagat's ceremonies include repetitive incantation of tantras in a local Dangi dialect and numerous yagnas and religious rites.
He repeated it over and over, as if it were an incantation meant to protect him from evil. NAKED EMPIRE
A plan characterized by demagogic war cries of "Drill, baby, drill" that sound eerily similar to the incantations of disciples on the verge of englutting a ceremonial Jonestown toast. Michael Hughes: This Election, Plates of Human History Will Shift
It includes magical incantations, but most of the text takes a methodical, empirical approach to diagnosis and treatment.
Evil cannot always be repelled by incantations, by demonstrations, by social analysis or by psychoanalysis.
The means employed by the healers all go back to autosuggestion, that is to say that these methods, whatever they are, words, incantations, gestures, staging, all produce in the patient the autosuggestion of recovery. Maîtrise de soi-même par l'autosuggestion consciente. English
She invokes the night and the moon, beneath whose rays these preparations are carried on, now, while the wild beasts lie asleep in the forests, and while the dogs alone bay the superanuated letcher, who relies singly on the rich scents with which he is perfumed for success, to speed her incantations, and signalise their power beneath the roof of him whose love she seeks. Lives of the Necromancers
Then the evil spirit must be driven out, and the medicine-man stretches his patient on the ground and scarifies him with the claws of eagles from head to heel, and while performing the scarification a group of men and women stand about, forming a chorus, and medicine-man and chorus perform a fugue in gloomy ululation, for these wicked spirits will depart only by incantations and scarifications. Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56
(Priest replaces sword, Deacon dips aspergillum in asperging bowl of Witch Water, while Priest begins incantation for The Asperges.) The Church of Satan Protestant | Disinformation
Book III proposes licit remedies against charms and incantations, and considers whether it is true that sorcerers have the power to heal.
Meditation does not demand sitting cross-legged amidst candles and burning incense, muttering weird incantations.
The song was hypnotic, the words felt like an incantation, a Latin mass for suburbia.
Consequently, people depended on prayer and incantation, in one form of another, as the only available form of risk management.
Clay tablets with its spindly arrangements of flicks and crosses started to appear by the thousands, recording paeans, epics and incantations.
Mindy obtains a Taoist Magic book and uses the spells and incantations within to reverse her mother's fortunes.
Grabbing my arm, she began muttering an incantation that sounded a bit too similar to the one with which I had seen her geld a horse.
Bloodsteel" is the kind of sludgy, jaw-droppingly terrible fantasy fare that's only good for two things: Giving "Kröd" more comedic fodder, and giving genre fans reasons to invent drinking games based on how many times wizards chant incantations or speak in riddles. Undefined
The former prescribed the medicine, or used incantation, to provide healing.
But the passage also slips towards unreason; it is incantation, not argument.
The murmur of incantation gurgled into silence, but not before a blazing inferno of heat erupted around him.
For it must either be by virtue of some natural science or by incantation, that is, virtue of words. Leviathan
If you have his name, or the formula of incantation that binds him, you can control the spirit, genie, afrite, or whatever the power may be. Pragmatism
You'll recognise the voice too - the mean growls, the girlish coos, the dizzy incantations.
If he wishes to show that "No Second Troy" is a better poem than "Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation," I am not persuaded by his telling me that the latter poem is "an incantation against elementary democratic reforms" and that the former poem enacts Yeats's "hard-wrung triumph, over selfpity. Archaeology
Night being a favorite time for the recital of the incantations, it was natural that the orb of night, the god Sin, should be added to the pantheon of the exorciser. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
Songs of power, of magic, of emotion, of incantation and enchantment.
He started chanting the incantation of a dark spell, full of ugly guttural sounds.
He dug through his list of incantations, invocations and other such spells to little avail.
Scary images flash on the screen as Gene begins his incantations to the infernal minions of hell.
He was activating the Sepfeer talisman that was inside as he began to chant the incantation for the spell he was about to cast.
Such practitioners, known as curanderos, use herb teas and poultices, traditional exercises, incantations, and magical touching to heal.
For this we know is the prize of magical incantations, namely divination and prophecy. The Defense
But the smile of the suicide bomber has as much to do with the source of true humour and laughter as the enforced rictus that accompanies the ritual incantation of ‘Have a nice day’ in the supermarket checkout.
Then you have to act humble, mutter some incantation three times, then they throw dog poop on your shoes, and suddenly you are acting Prime Minister and Grand Poobah.
He raised his arms into the air and chanted the incantation for a fireball.
This old volume was a Spell Tome, full of ancient secrets of magical healing, useful incantations and protective charms.
It was believed that, providing the event was assisted by incantation, evil could be washed away, burnt away, or banished by contact with a purification stick, wand or whip.
McAdam Freud's latest incantation of Sisyphus, more amorphous than its medallic counterpart, which makes palpable the conceptual roots of Sigmund Freud's repetition compulsion. Penelope Andrew: The Freud(ian)s: Inspired by Sigmund's Passion for Antiquities, Jane Debuts Her Own Paradigms of the Unconscious
I'm sure that there are also detailed instructions on invoking powerful incantations, reading the I Ching, analyzing birds entrails, bibliomancy, and consulting the bumps on one's head.
The word "rune," in Baltic Runes, indicates a magical incantation -- an apt image for such an enchanting album. On CD: Baltic Runes
In the reports of early travelers and missionaries no special mention is made of the Midē´, the Jes´sakkīd´, or the Wâbĕnō´, but the term sorcerer or juggler is generally employed to designate that class of persons who professed the power of prophecy, and who practiced incantation and administered medicinal preparations. The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300
The chiasmus points to how the questions function as quasi-incantations rather than genuine queries needing answers.
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?”
His incantations took the spoken form of the seeker, revealing with instantaneous reaches forward the voices in him.
The marriage over the tongs is a thing to scandalize any well-brought-up person, for before he joined the couple's hands Jimmy jumped about in a startling way, uttering wild gibberish, and after the ceremony was over there was rough work, with incantations and blowing on pipes. Auld Licht Idyls
Her qualifications as white witch were boundless cunning, equally boundless good nature, considerable knowledge of human weaknesses, some mesmeric power, some skill in “yarbs,” as she called her simples, a firm faith in the virtue of her own incantations, and the faculty of holding her tongue. Westward Ho!
No amount of yogic incantation can harmonize these split personae; the solution is to break the banks into functional units, so that merger experts, market makers and proprietary traders no longer cohabit. Robert Teitelman: Goldman Sachs, Business Standards and the Critics
He somehow realized that the proper incantations had not been made - the conjurement had not been completed - life had not been fully restored to his corpse. The Conan Chronicles
He dug through his list of incantations, invocations and other such spells to little avail.
To go round a person in the opposite direction, or withershins (German wider-shins), is unlucky, and a sort of incantation. Waverley
The general consensus is to take the word to mean ‘the use of magic potions and charms in incantations and degraded religious practices’.
No one embodies better than Coltrane that strange kinship between pentecostal incantation and the spiritual lineage of jazz.
More ‘advanced’ magicians have been known to use foreign language incantation in their work, and they can claim to have just as much success as the sigil users.
La dame aux yeux noirs, vêtue d'une longue robe de cérémonie et d'un chapeau de sorcière, concocte des potions dans un chaudron, façonne des poupées ensorcelées, marmonne incantations et envoûtements. Carmen : The Last Witch
He settled on the cushions before it, and once more the ancient incantation rolled against the canescent walls. Conan The Victorious
a sacred personage as an aruspex or diviner: I mean the poisoning by incantation. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
Like an incantation or a name chanted at a séance. Land of the Blind
He started chanting the incantation of a dark spell, full of ugly guttural sounds.
Massage was developed in connection with incantation, rubbing the spirit out of the body, and was preceded by efforts to rub medicine in, in a similar fashion to rubbing liniments in.
One part succory with artemisia and periwinkle flowers placed as aforesaid is strong against incantations and against assassins and gives security from them, and if with this is placed the tooth of a wolf it protects also from robbers and thieves.
For years, I performed rituals from Pagan grimoires and read incantations to Bast, Diana / Artemis, and Hecate.
Gone were the secret incantations and gothic tales of interred bodies, but the divining rod remained, now viewed as a conductor of imponderable fluids.
Although they have become shorter, going still means three days of esoteric debate interrupted only by ritual incantation, expensive coffee, and German food.
Learn to listen out for instinct, to separate it from the usual mental chaff, that bit of info, chant, incantation, poem that downloads itself into yer head aint easy.
It will also explore certain formal similarities between the TV series and Burroughs' novels - for instance, the role of refrains, repetition and incantation.

How To Use Incantation In A Sentence

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