bewitch
verb
to control someone’s behaviour with magic
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to use magic to try to make the spirit of a dead person appear
in stories, if a person or thing changes into something, or is changed into something, they become that thing by magic
to make something appear using magic powers
to change into something else as a result of magic
to make someone or something change into someone or something else using magic
to hope that something that you want will happen by magic or by the power of your thoughts
to use magic to make something happen to someone
to claim to be able to tell what will happen to someone in the future by examining the palm of their hand
to look at the tea leaves in the bottom of a cup for a sign of what will happen in the future
to say what will happen to someone in the future using what are claimed to be magic powers
a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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