0 a type of magic in which spirits, especially evil ones, are used to make things happen:
1 a type of magic that is used esp. to harm someone or make things happen
The demonic makes better sense of this sorcery than does the divine.
The political use of sorcery has, for example, been suggested in such tracts.
Yet, he rarely shows in concrete ways how ' alternative causalities ' like sorcery shape political outcomes or influence the choices made by actors.
Revivalists thought their salvation cleansed them of the pollution of sorcery.
On this occasion, he was particularly interested in obtaining information about 'this sorcery process,' but he was frustrated, possibly because of the language problem.
Chapter 7 provides an analysis of their careers and explains the role of ' sorcery ' in the cultivation of their political personae.
Men worried that wives maddened with money would sap husbands' virility with sorcery.
A significant proportion of them were young, male beggars who were feared capable of working sorcery as a rite of revenge against householders who rejected their pleas for alms.
