bewitchment

• “The love that drives him increasingly looks like something baser and less flattering--a kind of bewitchment he seems helpless against, though it comes from within.”

  Archive 2009-08-16

• “Magic spells, poisons, potions and enchantments may be frequent plot devices at the ballet, but the art form itself is under a bewitchment of its own making.”

  Vitro Nasu » 2009 » May

• “Many Malawians hold similar beliefs about the possibility of bewitchment, and we had heard numerous disturbing tales involving children and witchcraft from other clients in the clinic.”

  The Huffington Post: Chi Mgbako: Aiding Children Accused of Witchcraft

• “Gillian Anderson's version of the duchess the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, begins as a bewitchment and ends like the strike of a rattlesnake.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Where the Time Goes

• “And yet in Julian Mitchell's exemplary adaptation it glides on to the stage scented with the peculiar tang of Ford's writing: a mixture of regret, bitterness, bewilderment and bewitchment.”

  The Guardian: Earthquakes in London; The Good Soldier; FIB

• “What the local people saw as bewitchment he saw as mental stress.”

  Simon & Schuster: Spellbound

• “Its prevalence is not the result of a recent word transfer or innovation, but reflects the preservation of an ancient verb root of persistent meaning that dates back to the proto-Bantu period of the early third millennium BCE. 56 In other words, the idea of bewitchment has retained its current meaning and linguistic form for at least 5,000 years.”

  Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE

• “This sickness is often brought on by bewitchment and not from their choice to refuse a condom.”

  Education In-Service Training « Peace Corps South Africa

• ““I believe art should exist solely for purposes of transformation, the bewitchment of all humankind.””

  Cilli Wang.

• “Accusations of bewitchment are rarely based on sound evidence or fact, but are often motivated through fear, superstition, jealousy, envy and spite.”

  Can Pagans Liberate The 'Witch' Word?

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