as in witchcraft
the power to control natural forces through supernatural means
in olden times people suspected of sorcery were often put to death
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Additionally, the Massachusetts legislature has made efforts over the past four years to clear the names of those accused of demonic sorcery during the Salem Witch Trials, which filled the colony’s courts throughout much of the 1600s.
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Gary Collins, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2025
Unknown Armies This idiosyncratic modern magic game from Atlas Games plays like a gritty reboot of other games about sorcery.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
The fact that Desmond injures himself badly in pulling off this sorcery endears him to Corrino all the more, which of course puts Valya in a deeper fix.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2024
His first film conjured 1630s New England, where a farming family expelled from a Puritan settlement encounter sorcery in the woods.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024
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Gary Collins, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2025
Unknown Armies This idiosyncratic modern magic game from Atlas Games plays like a gritty reboot of other games about sorcery.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
The fact that Desmond injures himself badly in pulling off this sorcery endears him to Corrino all the more, which of course puts Valya in a deeper fix.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2024
His first film conjured 1630s New England, where a farming family expelled from a Puritan settlement encounter sorcery in the woods.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Sorcery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sorcery. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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