witchcraft

witchcraft

1. noituus

Liittyvät sanat: sorcery

Synonyymisanakirja

witchcraft

noituus, musta magia, manaus, nekromantia.

Englannin sanakirja

witchcraft (englanti > suomi)

1. noituus

witchcraft englanniksi

1. The practice of witches; magic, sorcery or the use of supernatural powers to influence or predict events.

2. 1387, John Trevisa (transl.), Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis, http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=4Pg9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA41v=onepage&q&f=false chapter XLIV:

And in þat ilond is sortilege and wicchecraft (transterm) i-vsed. For wommen þere selliþ schipmen wynde, as it were i-closed vnder þre knottes of þrede, so þat þe more wynd he wol haue, he wil vnknette þe mo knottes.

Wiccans believe in a modernised form of witchcraft.

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