invultuation

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  1. The act of stabbing or piercing with a sharp instrument a wax or clay image of a person, under the belief that the person himself, though absent and unconscious of the act, will thereupon languish and die: a kind of spell or witchcraft believed in in ancient times and in the middle ages. The practice was so common, and belief in its fatal effects so general, that laws were enacted against it. It was called in Anglo-Saxon stacung, ‘staking.’

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  1. from Middle Latin invultuatio(n-), invultuacio(n-), from invultuare, invultare (later Old French envouter, French envoûter), stab or pierce the face or body of (a person), that is (to medieval superstition the same thing), of an image of him made of wax or clay (see def.), from Latin in, in, into, + vultus, face.
 

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