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Conjuring vs Witchcraft - What's the difference?

conjuring | witchcraft |

As nouns the difference between conjuring and witchcraft

is that conjuring is (gerund of conjure) an act in which something is conjured while witchcraft is the practice of witches; magic, sorcery or the use supernatural powers to influence or predict events.

As a verb conjuring

is .

conjuring

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (gerund of conjure) An act in which something is conjured
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=March 11, author=Anthony Adler, title=Nervous Chatter, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=In between conjurings , Jan and Anka swap cures for insomnia

    witchcraft

    English

    (wikipedia witchcraft)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The practice of witches; magic, sorcery or the use supernatural powers to influence or predict events.
  • * 1387 , John Trevisa (transl.), Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis , chapter XLIV:
    • And in þat ilond is sortilege and wicchecraft i-vsed. For wommen þere selliþ schipmen wynde, as it were i-closed vnder þre knottes of þrede, so þat þe more wynd he wol haue, he wil vnknette þe mo knottes.
    Wiccans believe in a modernised form of witchcraft .

    See also

    * spellcraft * gypsycraft English words suffixed with -craft