Word: witcheraft
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...WITH a certain mixture of dread and excitement that one finds John Updike undertaking the material of magic and witcheraft in his latest novel. The Witches of Eastwick. Updike is a terrific writer, this book should because for excitement. But he is also innocent of magic; in the way that one's marden great aunt is probably innocent of sex: one dreads his first chapter as one avoids bringing up procreation with auntie...
Elihu Thomson, prolific in research and invention; a magician who by the witcheraft of science has subdued electricity to the service...
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