Incantation vs Witchcraft - What's the difference?
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The act or process of using formulas and/or usually rhyming words, sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results.
A formula of words used as above.
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 ,
As nouns the difference between incantation and witchcraft
is that incantation is the act or process of using formulas and/or usually rhyming words, sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results while witchcraft is the practice of witches; magic, sorcery or the use supernatural powers to influence or predict events.incantation
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* encantationNoun
(en noun)witchcraft
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(wikipedia witchcraft)Noun
(en-noun)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 .
