Word: witchcrafts
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...magic, ordered in federal police reinforcements, who used tear gas and gunfire to break up the raging mobs, killing two and arresting 296 of the rioters. At week's end. Ibadan was still under a state of emergency. But Adelabu was dead and buried, and neither riot nor witchcraft could bring him back alive...
...those who like history and those who like novels; both classes of readers are apt to be depressed by historical novels. This form of literature, which requires a strict convention of disbelief, is perfectly exemplified in The Winthrop Woman, a bulging package of period color, religion, sex, sadism and witchcraft. It is written in what can only be called Williamsburg prose-the settings and costumes are as authentic as money and research can buy, and if the hands and heads that stick through the quaint old collars and cuffs are stuffed with straw, there will be no complaints from...
...manpower than of time. "With enough priests to station one every ten kilometers, it would not take too long," he says. The first step in that direction is a new seminary with an enrollment of , more than 100 students on a 15-year course. One of his biggest problems: witchcraft, which he lets alone as long as it sticks to medicine, but attacks with a combination of logic and ridicule when it spills over into prophecy and sympathetic magic. Last year Bishop Bigirumwani consecrated Swiss Bishop Andre Perraudin at Kabgaye, Ruanda-the first white bishop ever to be consecrated...
Bypassing what he called "Knotty Studies," Oxonian Aubrey turned his intelligent, squirrel-like mind towards whatever was new in chemistry, archaeology, philosophy, medicine, astrology, witchcraft and zombis. He became the friend or acquaintance of virtually all the great thinkers of his day, from Sir Christopher Wren to Sir Isaac Newton. In time he lost his estates, was reduced to living on handouts. He died hoping that some "Ingeniose and publick-spirited young Man" might one day "polish and compleat what I have delivered rough hewen." Aubrey confessed that his frank sketches contained things "that would raise a Blush...
...incomprehensible love affair that grows between the two is made plausible by Iris Murdoch's great tact with words. It is only when this serious novelist (she is a tutor in philosophy at Oxford's St. Anne's College) intrudes witchcraft into the plot that she seems to forget the difference between the reality of magic and the magic of reality. Mor's daughter Felicity, hoping to release her father from his enchantment, casts a spell and burns a figure (made of a nylon stocking stuffed with paper). Mother catches her at it: "Whatever were...