WITCHCRAFT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does witchcraft mean? 

• WITCHCRAFT (noun)
  The noun WITCHCRAFT has 1 sense:

1. the art of sorcery

  Familiarity information: WITCHCRAFT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WITCHCRAFT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The art of sorcery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

witchcraft; witchery

Hypernyms ("witchcraft" is a kind of...):

black art; black magic; necromancy; sorcery (the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world)

 Context examples 

"This is not thy deception, nor thy witchcraft: it is the work of nature. She was roused, and did—no miracle—but her best."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And one day Ugh-Gluk taxed him with witchcraft to his face.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“We also know that, historically, these plants were used in shamanic rituals and witchcraft, both in Mexico and Europe”, adds Dr. Paloma Cariñanos of the UGR.

(Scientists examine the ethnobotanical uses of stramonium, University of Granada)

But there was also talk of witchcraft in the village.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Because he exercised headcraft and not witchcraft, he rose from the meanest igloo to be head man of his village, and through all the years that he lived, it is related, his tribe was prosperous, and neither widow nor weak one cried aloud in the night because there was no meat.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"Has one in the village yet to fall sick from the eating of it? How dost thou know that witchcraft be concerned? Or dost thou guess, in the dark, merely because of the envy that consumes thee?"

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It be headcraft, not witchcraft.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Klosh-Kwan recited the information brought by Bim and Bawn, and at its close said in a stern voice: "So explanation is wanted, O Keesh, of thy manner of hunting. Is there witchcraft in it?"

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)