Exempel på incantation

• 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.

• The short incantation he was taught, commanding the demon to go back to its assigned territory outside the human world, was designed to work as a mastery-increasing suggestion.

• For example, the verb to spell 'to set down the orthographic form of a word' is not related to the noun spell 'magic incantation' or 'period of time'.

• But the most extraordinary thing is the introduction of the famous dogmatic incantation condemning so-called racism and xenophobia.

• The modern fashion for neo-liberalism will bring yet more tears to the world before its gurus and their incantations are finally rejected.

• It is no good going on making incantations and exhortations.

• Paragraph 3.5 seems to be an incantation of what people would like to see.

• I believe—and the country will think this as well—that incantations on the question of wage inflation are no substitute for an actual policy.