Sentence examples for practicing magic from inspiring English sources
He began practicing magic 30 years ago when he was looking for a hobby to distract him from the rigors of his profession.
James Houpt was practicing magic tricks in front of his mirror recently, making coins disappear, when a reporter called to ask about his health.
"The New Tenants" leavens a scenario of brutal absurdity with self-conscious talk, while "Instead of Abracadabra" stakes out "Napoleon Dynamite" territory with its tale of a misunderstood goofball looking for love and practicing magic in Swedish suburbia.
Although Neo-Paganism incorporates the emotional involvement and ritual practices associated with religion into its tradition, many Neo-Pagans prefer to think of themselves as practicing magic rather than religion, and although their emphasis is on opening themselves up to hidden powers through rites, chants, or charms, most do not call themselves "witches," as Wiccans do.
He returned to Cartaghe where he practiced medicine, tough he must flee accused of practicing magic.
The "Witches of East End" continue practicing magic on Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on Lifetime.
To meet her family's charge that he had practiced magic to win her affection, he wrote the Apologia ("Defense"), the major source for his biography.
Asked where he learned his craft, Mr. Betaza, who calls himself a "master of occult sciences," becomes evasive, muttering something about his mother having practiced magic.
For spiritualists like Alexandra David-Neel, who journeyed to Lhasa in 1924, it was a fairy tale realm where lamas practiced magic and astral projection.
According to their creator, the twins, ordinary Chinese-American girls who practice magic tricks and go on picnics, were inspired in part by that midcentury picture-book threesome, Flicka, Ricka and Dicka, in the series by the Swedish author and illustrator Maj Lindman.
Their 2nd-century spokesmen had to dispel the belief, often recorded, that they practiced magic involving cannibalism; further, that they indulged in sex orgies, incestuous to boot; and, the most common accusation of all, that they were atheists people who denied the existence of the gods and rejected accepted cults.
