Sentence examples for malevolent magic from inspiring English sources

Maple wrote that Pickingill was known to use cursing and malevolent magic on occasion, something that the folklorist contrasted with the activities of other contemporary cunning folk that he had studied, such as James Murrell.

Such taboos may align with fear of deliberate poisoning or malevolent magic.

Maple recorded that in this period there was a rumour that there were either six or nine elderly women living in Canewdon who were malevolent witches and used their magic to harm others.

These coexist with pre-Buddhist animistic beliefs and the use of magic to ward off malevolent influences.

Storybook ballets are full of conventional magic: benevolent fairies and malevolent spells and princely kisses to rescue whichever princess happens to need rescuing.

That year was the first finals of the Bird-Magic era, and it was malevolent in its cruelty: the Lakers were eighteen seconds and one possession away from taking two straight at the Garden, when Gerald Henderson stole a James Worthy pass and sent the game into overtime.

Due to the nature of modern encryption, "there is no way to put in a back door or magic key for law enforcement that malevolent actors won't also be able to abuse", argues the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Jeremy Gillula.

The boy vanishes during a magic trick, only to return with strangely malevolent intentions.

They are malevolent and murderous and may be summoned by black magic.

Now, oAuth isn't a magic bullet for security — if you give a malevolent service access to your Gmail account, they can sift through your email.

Dimitry Ivashchenko was properly malevolent and dark-voiced as Kaspar, the forester who induces Max to seek the magic bullets.