as in sorcery
the power to control natural forces through supernatural means
taught all of her daughters witchcraft
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Recent Examples of witchcraft
The ability to practice witchcraft is usually genetic, but not always.
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Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Nov. 2025
Set in Salem, Massachusetts, the third season will dive deeper into the mythology of witchcraft, introduce new ‘spellbound’ families and feature some of the historical happenings of Salem, the infamous town of witch trials and folklore.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
Decades before Salem, hysteria over witchcraft was already sweeping through England – and perhaps nowhere more fervently than in the southeast, such as in the neighboring counties of Kent and Essex, which border London.
—James Frater, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
Set on Halloween night, the film follows a group of teenagers who are haunted via a mysterious book written over 100 years ago by a young girl who was accused of witchcraft.
—Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
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Part of me wanted to attribute this beautiful sorcery to extensions, but my beauty editor Spidey sense told me otherwise.—
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The trippy visuals are reminiscent of Doctor Strange's sorcery of the Marvel movies as birds and buildings multiple and fold in on themselves.—
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There are moments when great artists are won over by the magic of certain cities and then forever change the way that the world sees them.—
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There’s an equally eerie and intriguing magic that comes with venturing into the wilderness beneath the light of a full moon.—
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“Witchcraft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/witchcraft. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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