We hoped we would not meet her, for since the affair of the bewitchment of Paddy we did not know quite what to think of Peg; the boldest of us held his breath as we passed her haunts, and drew it again with a sigh of relief when they were safely left behind.

"Yes; but there's this difference between love and smallpox, or bewitchment either--that if you detect the disease at an early stage and try change of air, there is every chance of complete escape without any further development of symptoms.

s'Tag-stan-ras-ch'en built it,and of him there runs this tale.' Whereupon he told it: a fantastic piled narrative of bewitchment and miracles that set Shamlegh a-gasping.

'The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it.' (1986: p 16) Wittgenstein (2009: p 52e) extends this proposition in his idea of the bewitchment of language, a sense that the separate world of language can so enthral us as that we lose a sense of proportion of the world beyond or outside language.

They used the incantation 'Abracadabra' to ward off such bewitchment and as a remedy for poor health.

of the bewitchment and murder of Agnes Ratcliffe and before her

During the ritual, I bath in the [river], fowls were killed, and libation was poured to plead with the River gods; 'Antoa Nyamaa'." Findings indicated that people in the community hold the view that HIV infection occurs in people because of spiritual affliction, curse and bewitchment . These wrong notions direct the health seeking behaviour of the individuals.

Canonised by means of centuries-old Machiavellian manoeuvring, unimaginable bloody tragedy and generations of fawning reverence, this object--the quintessence of his philosophy--worked its dark bewitchment upon the besotted Yanagi, as with countless others before and since.

For Wittgenstein "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language" (Wittgenstein, 1963:109).

Upon comparison of these two texts, both gospels agree that Herodias was behind the execution of John and used the convenient agency of her daughter's bewitchment . There is no indication that the mother and daughter planned the scheme in advance, however.