"evil spell" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe any kind of negative magical incantation. For example: "The witch cast an evil spell on the king, bewitching him with an unbreakable curse."
But Assyrian art itself casts an evil spell.
If you can't find heaven with Angelica archangelica, you're under an evil spell.
Óscar Ribas wrote novels and poetry; his novel Uango-feitiço (1951; "The Evil Spell") incorporates local oral tradition.
Some evil spell had settled on the community: mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle sickened and died.
For them, it was black magic coming from a particular person, so if you wanted to get rid of the evil spell you eliminated the guy.
He had offered to buy it back, thinking that this might release him from the "evil spell" cast on him, but its new owners were not interested.
But Mr. Sebastian often merely spun steps together when he should have been weaving evil spells.
In an exciting chase, he escapes the witch and all her evil spells, and becomes Taliesin.
Although he was wearing a T-shirt with "Evil" spelled out in silver glitter, he was not a threatening figure but a mischievous uncle.
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).
Despite his problems with the police, Mr. Silva said he had helped police officers with crystals, most recently dispensing some black tourmaline and an obsidian arrowhead to several officers seeking to ward off evil spells from voodoo practitioners they had arrested.
