...Lady Wilde, in her "Irish Legends," gives a cat story quite of the fairytype, and well in keeping with many of witchcraft and sorcery...
Harrison Weir 「Our Cats and All About Them」
...But what a strange idea I formed of this branch of study! To me it smacked of sorcery, of alchemy and its search for the philosopher's stone...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...” The aim of positive magic or sorcery is to produce adesired event; the aim of negative magic or taboo is to avoid anundesirable one...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...In short, those negative precepts which we call taboo are just asvain and futile as those positive precepts which we call sorcery...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...But in savage societythere is commonly to be found in addition what we may call publicmagic, that is, sorcery practised for the benefit of the wholecommunity...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Shepherdesses and children passed sprigs ofmullein (verbascum) and nuts across the flames; the nutswere supposed to cure toothache, and the mullein to protect thecattle from sickness and sorcery...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Women suspected of sorcery have toundergo the same ordeal; if found guilty, the same punishment isawarded, and after being shaved, their hair is attached to a treein some public place...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...There, surely, they might receive food and shelter and freedom from the sorcery of their husbands...
Edward S. Curtis 「The North American Indian」
...They certainly have a lively belief in ghosts of people who have lived and died, and in spirits which have never occupiedhuman form, all of whom (ghosts and spirits) are evil disposed, and in sorcery...
Robert W. Williamson 「The Mafulu」
...There hadbeen a witch-doctor in Towahg's tribe; the savage knew sorcery when hesaw it...
Charles Willard Diffin 「Brood of the Dark Moon」
...A change of judge having in process of time occurred, thedefendant saw his way to turn the tables on the old lady by accusing herof sorcery...
Oliver Lodge 「Pioneers of Science」
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