Sentence examples for magical substances from inspiring English sources

In his apartment, he has syringes filled with the stuff – a syrupy, rust-colored liquid – labelled so that he won't confuse whatever magical substances are contained within them.

The magical substances are believed to invest the fetish figure with power and make it possible for the devotee to establish contact with the spirit (nkisi).

All fetishes, whether they represent humans or animals and whether they are made of wood, horn, ivory, or even calabash, must contain a number of magical substances such as blood along with animal, vegetable, and mineral matter.

The show concludes, thunderously, with fifteen of the twenty known surviving Mangaakas from the nineteenth century: wooden male figures, most nearly four feet high, with stout legs, stomach pouches for magical substances, and beetling heads that sport wide, staring white eyes and sharpened teeth.

This initiatory death, like that of the Siberian shaman, has two specific marks not found elsewhere in combination: first, a series of operations performed on the candidate's body (opening of the abdomen, renewal of the organs, washing and drying of the bones, insertion of magical substances); second, an ascent to heaven, sometimes followed by trance journeys into the otherworld.

Baking soda is one of those magical substances in life that is great for myriad purposes.

("It is the first magical substance which consents to be prosaic").

Not all that long ago, lead seemed to be a magical substance.

When heated, it produces the seemingly magical substance quicksilver, a promise of other transformative possibilities.

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters, making them available to plants.

"Pizza just might be the perfect food, a magical substance that pleases most people, of most ages, most of the time," Feinberg and Stephens write.