#992. Sorcery.-- N. sorcery; occult art, occult sciences; magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy[obs]; demonology, demonomy[obs], demonship[obs]; diablerie[Fr], bedevilment; witchcraft, witchery; glamor; fetishism, fetichism, feticism[obs]; ghost dance, hoodoo; obi, obiism[obs]; voodoo, voodooism; Shamanism [Esquimaux], vampirism; conjuration; bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism; od force, odylic force[obs]; electrobiology[obs], clairvoyance; spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning.
divination &c. (prediction) 511; sortilege[obs], ordeal, sortes Virgilianae[obs]; hocus-pocus &c. (deception) 545.
V. practice sorcery &c.n.; cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant; bewitch, bedevil; hoodoo, voodoo; entrance, mesmerize, magnetize; fascinate &c. (influence) 615; taboo; wave a wand; rub the ring, rub the lamp; cast a spell; call up spirits, call up spirits from the vasty deep; raise spirits from the dead.
Adj. magic, magical; mystic, weird, cabalistic, talismanic, phylacteric[obs], incantatory; charmed &c. v.; Circean, odylic[obs], voodoo.