Sentence examples for magical purposes from inspiring English sources

In 1604, the year following James's accession to the English throne, a new witchcraft law was enacted, "An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft and dealing with evil and wicked spirits", imposing the death penalty for causing harm by the use of magic or the exhumation of corpses for magical purposes.

One year after James acceded to the English throne, a law was enacted imposing the death penalty in cases where it was proven that harm had been caused through the use of magic, or corpses had been exhumed for magical purposes.

Murals occur on the mud walls of houses sometimes decorative, sometimes for ritual and magical purposes.

Killing children for magical purposes is not part of orthodox, biblical Christianity.

The most interesting runic inscriptions are those that were cut for magical purposes and those that appeal to deities.

It is still unknown whether the runes were originally employed mainly for magical purposes, as suggested by the name runa, or as a usual means of communication.

The Egyptian images, however, had a magical purpose: they not only recorded the features of the deceased but also provided a locus for his ka, the mysterious entity that constituted an essential element of the personality.

That ammunition likely served a spiritual or magical purpose, he said.

The problem with my chosen profession is that it's increasingly used for an almost magical purpose: changing the subject.

But I forced myself to stay, to examine these masks … that people had created with a sacred, magical purpose, to serve as intermediaries between them and the unknown ….

In a somewhat different way, the tomb sculptures of Egypt, intended to serve a magical function in the afterlife of the tomb's inhabitants, had to be images suitable for their purpose.