How To Use Sorcery In A Sentence

The architectonics of the sculpted locks, the author argues, augment their power to fend off sorcery and other malevolent forces.
Chanting - or incantation - has always been a technique of sorcery.
The ones that really bother me, and seem to be on the decline, are the Tolkeinesque stories, but even the more modern sword and sorcery stuff, that avoids the Tolkein trappings, still has the quests and heirs and stuff that just gets old, even before it starts. SF Fanatic: I Am Not A Fan Of Fantasy, Here's Why
In my opinion, Kalawnn replied, the Greatest Stone should be able to transcend all lesser forms of sorcery. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
These latter included wills, churches and churchyards, religious obligations, tithes, marriage, slander, and sorcery.

Big men often purport to be powerful spirit mediums and to possess both healing powers and deadly war sorcery.
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
'Rogues in the House' is one of the finest talcs of sword and sorcery ever written. ' The Conan Chronicles
Nexon to get updated on other content that will be added to it, including "Evy," the mage character, who wields a quarterstaff (that can be modified to become a giant scythe) and the power of Source-engine-powered sorcery. GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features
It is commonly associated in descendant languages of proto-Kaskazi, including Ruvu languages, with the idea of protecting with amulet medicine that created a defensive barrier against ill-intended sorcery or physical incursion. 146 In the colonial period, * - kinga medicine was instrumental in protecting Zaramo people from witchcraft. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
Wizards, witches and sorcery twine with knights and kings.
The blow was struck: henceforth the interpreters and all those who had dealings with the Arabs received orders to make them understand that my pretended miracles were only the result of skill, inspired and guided by an art called prestidigitation, in no way connected with sorcery. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life
He orders the witch to repel the charge of sorcery by the oath of sixteen women, so these jurywomen must have been often exposed to peremptory challenges.
In my opinion, Kalawnn replied, the Greatest Stone should be able to transcend all lesser forms of sorcery. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
Their desire develops a sorcery that the stronger effect has more to kill to harm dint.
The conspirators were tried for sorcery and condemned to death.
Though she and Lanthe had no battle sorcery, they both were scrappy and had become fair swordswomen. Kiss of a Demon King
She speaks with uncanny timing in the most doggone delicious accent, and sings with irresistible sorcery.
They had many powers, but their strongest mastery was in sorcery.
Enchanters and enchantresses are people who possess sorcery, witchcraft, and either white or black magic.
Eyes that don't want orthoptic sorcery idol, the conference is been fond of by the perfect creature but loses mental!
I don't know whether you believe in witchcraft, sorcery, black magic, and all that kind of thing.
A faint shimmer of amethyst light showed subtle sorcery at work.
Sword-and-sorcery is birthed from a different tradition from, say, high fantasy. The New Swords & Sorcery
It's his condition as a silverskin, not his albinism, that forces Elric to rely on drugs, sorcery, and souls to maintain his strength. Elric: The Stealer of Souls
We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Spellstones College of Sorcery and Witchcraft.
The mantel is that of Woden when he bears the hero over seas; the cock is a bird of sorcery the world over; the black fowl is the proper gift to the Underground powers -- a heriot really, for did not the Culture god steal all the useful beasts out of the underground world for men's use? The Danish History, Books I-IX
Just as in Scandinavia the parasitic rowan is deemed a countercharm to sorcery, so in Germany the parasitic mistletoe is still commonly considered a protection against witch-craft, and in Sweden, as we saw, the mistletoe which is gathered on Midsummer Eve is attached to the ceiling of the house, the horses stall or the cows crib, in the belief that this renders the Troll powerless to injure man or beast. Chapter 68. The Golden Bough
It is witchcraft and sorcery. Times, Sunday Times
The sorcery of his half-sister, the adultery of his wife and best friend, and his incestuously conceived son who becomes his nemesis all play their part in its, and his, doom.
It is witchcraft and sorcery. Times, Sunday Times
It seems that some people still believe in sorcery and black magic.
Harry's occult skills - witchcraft, sorcery, casting spells, spiritism, interpreting omens and ‘calling up the dead’ fit into a category God tells us not even to discuss.
This will include announcements of the publication of new novels and anthologies, and new issues of magazines, webzines and blogzines, as well as information about new Sword and Sorcery magazines as they are birthed from the splashing foam. Archive 2010-03-01
Now, the real difference between sorcery and wizardry is that with sorcery, you do not manipulate the environment.
Unfortunately, as a result of the sensational and inaccurate interpretations in the media, Hollywood in particular, the word voodoo has come to represent a fantasy of black magic and sorcery. The Serpent and the Rainbow
I must be permitted to register clearly the general conviction that if black magic, sorcery, and the Sabbath up to date had been merely revived demonomania, had been merely concerned with the black paternoster, the black mass, or even with transcendental sensualism and the ordeal of the pastos, the Roman hierarchy would not have taken action as it has, nor would the witnesses concerning these things have been welcomed with open arms; as a fact, no interest whatsoever is manifested in the doings of diabolists who operate apart from Masonry. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
By the same token, organizations resort to sorcery to explain mischance.
Therefore, a miraculous act proves nothing, for it can be done through enchantment and sorcery.
A gritty sword-and-sorcery novel set in medieval Spain, but unlike those inspired by Lord of the Rings, the plot involves not a quest but warfare, which is much more typical of Spanish history. MIND MELD: Guide to International SF/F (Part I )
Just as in Scandinavia the parasitic rowan is deemed a countercharm to sorcery, so in Germany the parasitic mistletoe is still commonly considered a protection against witch-craft, and in Sweden, as we saw, the mistletoe which is gathered on Midsummer Eve is attached to the ceiling of the house, the horse's stall or the cow's crib, in the belief that this renders the Troll powerless to injure man or beast. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
I am mostly healed, my lady, thanks to your sorcery, and I will not sit around the liedburg and be thought a useless old dodderer. Darksong Rising
Weir was arrested and confessed to sorcery; his sister Grizel was denounced as a witch.
In the beginning of the seventeenth century Elizabeth Bathgate, spouse of Alexander Pae, maltman in Eyemouth, was prosecuted at the instance of the Lord Advocate for sorcery. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
Sorcery is a tiny facet of magic, whose final goal is the realisation of nous and the unification of heaven and earth.
Dearth was of such obvious advantage to the usurers that it was commonly believed that they used sorcery to prevent rain from falling.
Viro walked down the path beyond the witch's house, muttering a thousand oaths against sorcery.
Like a magician, he produced an array of tricks from his arsenal as Listowel were put away by a superb act of sorcery on the stroke of half time.
The Mandate School of Sorcery protects ancient, coveted secrets and guards against the return of the Consult – nonman followers of No-God who destroyed ancient civilization. Neth Space
The full extent of the conflict between Inah and her mother-in-law climaxed with Inah's sorcery accusation.
Another legacy of the nobility to filter down to the streets is a fondness for witchcraft and sorcery.
Because with their maddening obstructionism and the accurate framing of their party as the purveyors of "No!" they are hereupon revealed in their priggish guise to be retrograde and obsolete, trying desperately to incite culture war in a culture that no longer requires their participation and painting the Obama administration's efforts at economic stabilization (along with every other Democratic policy proposal) as an example of diabolical sorcery. Steven Weber: The Pilgrim's Regress
At Bangui police station, a number of detectives specialize in rooting out sorcery.
Instead, it depicts a creature far more readily found in the collective imagination of the male contingent of its adolescent target audience, and tells a story almost as implausible as any sword and sorcery epic.
They held him guilty of acts of sorcery; they thought him a wicked beguiler of the common people.
So with regard to the idea that Vaudois comes from Vaudes, a sorcerer, it would be more correct to say that the term sorcerer was one applied by the inhabitants of the plains to those who were Vaudois, or hill-men, under the notion that the inhabitants of such localities practised sorcery. The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys
“Of course, there is one way to find out for certain if it is caused by sorcery, but one hesitates to suggest it, since you have so recently overexerted yourself using Weathermaker.” Conqueror's Moon
His treatment of demonism is written as an antidote to the outbreak of sorcery.
Sorcery, miracle, witchcraft, mysticism, idol-worship, etc. are satanic acts and people accused to be involved in them would be killed.
There exists a common faith in the demagogic witchery among the ethnic groups of Yunnan Province, and the erotic sorcery is one of the types.
In the corner of the large and sombre library, with no other light than was afforded by the decaying brands on its ponderous and ample hearth, he would exercise for hours that internal sorcery by which past or imaginary events are presented in action, as it were, to the eye of the muser. Waverley
All magic systems have warnings about what happens when sorcery is used against others.
Merlin learns early after arriving at Camelot that he has a destiny to assure that Arthur one day ascends to the throne, but he is hampered in this in that he must conceal his powers of sorcery because Uther has banned magic in the kingdom. April « 2010 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy
The new villages were built over the sea some two hundred metres from shore as a guard against warfare and sorcery.
He shut himself up in his palace for a while, mourning and afflicted; but at last his Wazirs came in to him and applied themselves to comfort him, saying, “Verily, he who took the damsel is an enchanter, and praised be Allah who hath delivered thee from his craft and sorcery!” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Big men often purport to be powerful spirit mediums and to possess both healing powers and deadly war sorcery.
For the uninitiated, Vlad Taltos is a human assassin in a strange world where humans occupy the eastern kingdoms and the rest is run by the Dragaereans, a long-lived elfin race whose sorcery is far more formalized than humanity's witchcraft (the human culture on Dragaera is based loosely on ancient Hungarian culture, and the magic is derived somewhat from Hungarian animist mysticism). Boing Boing
I have a pretty good idea about what underlies the technology of sorcery, and it's perfectly explicable in standard scientific terms. TROPIC OF NIGHT
The two books were concerned with sorcery and had analogical culture background.
In short, those negative precepts which we call taboo are just as vain and futile as those positive precepts which we call sorcery. Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic. § 2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic
` ` Which only goes to show '', said Colombo, ` ` that sorcery is somewhat akin to business, and now that I think of it '', said Colombo, ` ` I believe that the term wizard of industry is perhaps not entirely a misnomer. '' A Parody Outline of History
In the 1970s, Marvel Comics tried publishing sword & sorcery titles (licensed from the estate of Robert E. Howard), monster titles (Wolk offers a lengthy appreciation of the Marv Wolfman/Gene Colan Tomb of Dracula in Reading Comics), war comics (Combat Kelly seems to have failed in 1972), jungle adventure (Shanna the She-Devil sputtered out after two attempts), even Romance -- Millie the Model lasted until 1973. The Myth of the Fall of the American Comic Book
It strikes me that a lot of people don't seem to even think about sorcery in these terms, or relate their practice directly to the world around them.
The Motu believed in witchcraft and sorcery, but they did not practice it.
Agnes Finnie, an indweller in the Potter-row, Edinburgh, was indicted before a judge and a jury, on twenty articles of indictment, charging her with witchcraft and sorcery. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
This sort of thing is not too far removed from hoodoo & rootwork, which is one of the most effective systems of sorcery I've encountered.
For younger children it is a trainee wizard, Harry Potter, who is exciting their enthusiasm for spells and sorcery.
These elaborate carved objects commemorate the deaths of those killed in battle or by sorcery.
The Anubis Gates. Tim Powers. A modern scholar gets caught up in time travel, body- swapping, swashbuckling, and sorcery in London, circa 1810. Thing Charles Dickens meets Indiana Jones.
I don't think that she will use sorcery often because it would make her easier to track.
While Faust and Mephisto partook of wild ribaldry and pleasurably summoned up wicked spirits with their sorcery, Gretchen was suffering scorn, ridicule, and imprisonment.
Powerful magics were worked in those places, such experiments of sorcery that would turn white the hair of the downiest youth and wake the first, most terrible nightmare of the hoariest elder. Dalamar the Dark
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Wonderful fight sequences is what you expect out of a Swords & Sorcery novel and Sprunk more than delivers … Shadow's Son had me up late at night as nearly every chapter ended in climax after climax of tight action sequences to see how Caim will get out of the next scrape. Archive 2010-05-01
Unfortunately it tells it with little respect for historical fact, and incorporates enough Druidic magic into the plot to qualify as a sword and sorcery fantasy.
It all comes down to responsibility, and this power-crazed megalomaniac picture that you're painting is certainly not the only possible outcome, goal, or destination for people who don't believe sorcery should be used sparingly.
The heathen nations used sorcery and divination but the Lord said that the people were not to go down that route.
These serials help perpetuate superstitions and blind beliefs in witchcraft and sorcery, in magic and animism.
They acted in a way that seemed to confirm the Christian identification of pagan cult with sorcery and the occult.
I then tooke one of them, and thrust him into the smoke, and willed one of my company to tread out the fire, and to spurne it into the sea, which was done to shew them that we did contemne their sorcery. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.
Scandinavia the parasitic rowan is deemed a countercharm to sorcery, so in Germany the parasitic mistletoe is still commonly considered a protection against witch-craft, and in Sweden, as we saw, the mistletoe which is gathered on Midsummer Eve is attached to the ceiling of the house, the horse's stall or the cow's crib, in the belief that this renders the Troll powerless to injure man or beast. The Golden Bough
In Camelot, the use of sorcery is punishable by death. The Sun
It's the story of an author who writes sensitive, issue-based fiction for children, but when his career stalls is bullied by his agent into attempting a "sword and sorcery" fantasy. Mal Peet's Carnegie Medal Acceptance Speech
But it seems likely that all sorcery will vanish with the bourns.
I don't know whether you believe in witchcraft, sorcery, black magic, and all that kind of thing.
Perhaps the first of the "mannered" fantasies, Sorcery & Cecilia owes much to Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen and the regency romance. A Sunday Morning "Catch-Up" Review: Journey To Fusang
At first, it looks like a trip into sword and sorcery territory when our heroes end up in a forest just in time to save a fair maiden from an evil wizard.
I almost forgot the sorcery and spells. Times, Sunday Times
A practising witch, she wound up under guard after she plotted to kill her stepson Henry V by sorcery.
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The time of swords and sorcery has been the setting for many a motion picture.
My scenario wasn't sorcery, but the work of weather tables (avoid the shamals), as well as a logistics estimate on the time required to field an overwhelming U.S. combat force.
He mistranslates the word for ‘love-sorcery worked with roots’, which he renders as ‘she should not be a scold.’
Sorcery, protection from sorcery, sorcery accusations, and spiritual healing were all relegated to the category of "obscurantism" and forbidden. Archive 2007-11-01
The religion of sorcery declined with the appearance of Taoism and the introduction of Bud - dhism.
He taught the law of Moses and spoke against sorcery, fetishes, charms, and polygamy (having more than one spouse at the same time).
It doesn't understand sorcery, it doesn't understand spellsinging, it does not comprehend even the rudiments of thaumaturgy, and therefore cannot be affected by mem. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
In Xhosa tradition, the afterbirth and umbilical cord were buried or burned to protect the baby from sorcery.
Sublime performances from a faultless cast, beautiful cinematography and really cool sorcery puts it in Poldark territory. The Sun
In the film that crashed to shore this summer, none of this soft-headed nonsense about fate and sorcery is permitted.
Conrig smiled, recalling the jubilant face of his brother Stergos as the doctor relayed the windspoken message of Princess Ullanoth: The gates of the palace are wide open, and most of its garrison has fallen to my sorcery. Conqueror's Moon
Sorcery was illegal, but there was widespread belief in its efficacy, for good or evil - amulets were worn to counteract it.
I could not wake Cy - moril from it, with all my powers of sorcery. The Vanishing Tower
Not every New Guinea community practises sorcery or acknowledges witchcraft.
He did on one occasion but this was actually the product of sorcery and not some innate ability.
Castaneda's books are full of stories of magic, sorcery, and out-of-body experiences.
In the film that crashed to shore this summer, none of this soft-headed nonsense about fate and sorcery is permitted.
The cloak of organizational rationality is lifted to reveal sorcery, superstition, and the suspicion of witchcraft.
Cathena protests that there must be some reason that the Prophets condemn sorcery.
His treatment of demonism is written as an antidote to the outbreak of sorcery.
He then took his books and staff and cast them into the sea, openly vowing to give up his long-held practice of sorcery.
The herb could be worn about the person to ward off witchcraft and sorcery and was also hung about doors and windows to keep evil away from the house.
She spoke loudly, and as if conjured by sorcery, a group of musicians emerged from the crowd, carrying instruments, took up positions in front of Catherine, bowed to her, and set to without delay, on the rebec, harp, and drum. QUEEN’S RANSOM
Accordingly they all went in to the king and prostrating themselves before him, said to him, "O king, beware lest this youth ensorcell thee with his sorcery and beguile thee with his wiles. Arabian nights. English
These serials help perpetuate superstitions and blind beliefs in witchcraft and sorcery, in magic and animism.

How To Use Sorcery In A Sentence

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