Sentence examples for cast evil from inspiring English sources

Hiday, a 36-year-old farmer who is also being held at the Cianjur prison, said in an interview that he had taken part in the killing of three witches in southern Cianjur, which he said was overrun with witches who had cast "evil spells" on many people there.

There has been a lot of back and forth between witches who cast evil spells (black witches) and those who cast friendly, cute spells (white witches).

Author Scott Cunningham, who wrote extensively about Wicca until his death in 1993, said its practitioners do not cast evil spells, because the laws of karma dictate that whatever you send out comes back to you threefold or worse.

The performance begins with a comic vignette in which Ms. Zirin-Brown appears to portray a witch casting evil spells on the other women, assisted by a deformed creature (Ms. Pyle).

The kidnappers' ringleader, the horribly scarred Chidin (Eric Schweig), is a cross-cultural menace: a brujo as adept at casting evil spells as he is at keeping his filthy band of brothers in line.

But though the scientific community has debunked these outdated convictions, the ancient rite of casting evil spirits from the possessed is alive and well across the United States, with America being home to 20percentt of the world's exorcists.

Thanks to fables and folktales, foxes have long been cast as evil and cunning.

The live-action film attempted to cast the evil fairy from the 1959 Disney animated classic Sleeping Beauty in a more-sympathetic light.

It may sound like a small thing, but in a country where Western culture is still sometimes cast as evil, it is not.

Many people might have simply shaken their heads in disgust, cast an evil eye or muttered something about what our world is coming to.

"Traditionally, envy is linked with the eyes," Dr. Smith said, noting that the word comes from the Latin "invidere," which mean to look at with malice, or cast an "evil eye".