Meaning of spell-casting | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“Here are all the perfect ingredients—battles, spell-castings of both black and white varieties, old wishing wells, gypsy funerals, mysterious lovers who are not what they seem—woven into a plausible and entertaining tale.”

“The scholars were arguing about “Grimms’ Fairy Tales,” but they paid little attention to Cinderella, Snow⟳ White, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel or the rest⟳ of that band. They were concerned with spell-casting, proverb-injecting, sexual metaphors, submerged voices and bourgeois tendencies.”

“Apart from her domestic duties, the Witch taught her which herbs and berries to pick⟳ for spell-casting.”

“I suspect⟳ that this assumption of chaos — the sense⟳ that institutions have⟳ failed and no one is in charge — helps explain⟳ the well-documented resurgence of occultism among millennials. Attempts at spell-casting are obviously not unique to today’s young people; […]”

“Before we can properly begin⟳, there are, thankfully, myriad workshops to attend⟳, including the art of spell-casting and how to cope with “emotional overload” during the game.”

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