witchwork

The Kandakandero had taken his affliction as a sign of divine favor and a portent of supernatural abilities, and immediately consecrated him to witchwork.

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

The Kandakandero had taken his affliction as a sign of divine favor and a portent of supernatural abilities, and immediately consecrated him to witchwork.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

And it was witch-work, as potent if not as amply fitted with dramatic properties as the witchwork of ancient legend.

The Sleuth of St. James's Square Melville Davisson Post

"There is more witchwork going on inside this house," his wife remarked as she looked over his shoulder at the gun.

Some Three Hundred Years Ago Edith Gilman Brewster

"I set little store by witchwork, goblins and their kin," said Atli.

Eric Brighteyes Henry Rider Haggard 1890

The curse came on one and all of them -- a curse of blood, and of evil loves, and of witchwork destroying good and bad, all fearless, and all fallen in one red ruin.

Essays in Little Andrew Lang 1878

Prince Radziwill tried it, and then Spohr set a version of the theme at once coarse and cruel, full of vulgar witchwork and love-making only fit for a chambermaid.

The Great Italian and French Composers Ferris, George T 1878

Such a sickness had nothing natural about it -- there must be magic and witchwork in it; but he would have the whole land searched for the girl, and make her give the young lord some potion that would take off the spell.

Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 Wilhelm Meinhold 1824

Skallagrim looked, then spoke: "Now here, it seems, is witchwork.

Eric Brighteyes Henry Rider Haggard 1890