bewitch

• As for Bubi himself, he was afterward burned to death by an explosion of gunpowder, which one of his sorcerers was trying, by means of burnt roots, to un -bewitch. —  The Personal Life Of David Livingstone
• "Don't look at the Fairy Aurora, for her eyes bewitch, her glances rob a man of his reason. —  Roumanian Fairy Tales
• Suffer not this tyraunt loue to bewitch or deceiue thee.” Sodainly after he had spoken those wordes, the beautie of the Countesse representing it self before his eyes, made him to alter his minde again, and to reiect that which he before allowed, saying thus: “I feele in minde the cause of mine offence, and thereby doe acknowledge the wrong, but what shall I doe? —  The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
• A common mode of effecting their object was to obtain a shred of the clothing of the man they intended to bewitch, some refuse of his food, a lock of his hair, or some other personal relic; having got it they wrapped it up in certain leaves, and then cooked or buried it or hung it up in the forest; whereupon the victim was supposed to die of a wasting disease. —  The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
• It could bewitch, intoxicate, and take captive the whole soul,--judgment, conscience, fancy, everything Satan can put on the appearance of an 'angel of light.' —  Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story

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