0 (the performance of) words that are believed to have a magical effect when spoken or sung:
1 the saying of words believed to have a magical effect when spoken or sung:
In addition to these, he told me, he also uses the ' ancient wisdom of our forefathers ', including charms, incantations and others (interview, 8.7.2004).
Witches, by definition, erased the boundary between words and deeds: their "spells" were words made fact, incantations that had dire consequences in the real world.
Cultures of intimacy are ritual incantations from a historical reality which is constantly threatening to change.
Do you prevail through divine power or magic incantation?
Their superiority was due to success in shunning dubious magic, spells, or incantations.
Mashriqi's blood-curdling glorification of violence and his incantation of the need to conquer the world were strangely juxtaposed against an ethics of victimhood.
The fundamental and fatal error of alchemy and incantation consists in the mistaken belief that these proportions can be reproduced in the laboratory or in the field.
Thus, when the practice of burning incense, speaking an incantation, or making an idol is repeated again and again, it acquires meaning extending beyond the performance of a simple action.