Quotes About Incantation

Let me say what sorcery is not: it is not divine power, which comes with a thought and a blink. It must be made and worked, planned and searched out, dug up, dried, chopped and ground, cooked, spoken over, and sung.

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

I bring the match near, I light a flimsy piece of paper, and, behold, my gesture receives inspired help from the things around, as if the chimney and the dry wood had been waiting for me to set the light, or as though the match had been nothing but a magic incantation, a call of like to like answered beyond all imagination.

I have also seen the sinner's prayer abused. Some conservative churches treat the prayer like a magical incantation that guarantees an individual's salvation.

Crep, strep, venefica est mortua ...

By earth and stone, I abjure you!

Maybe words, like potions, were also capable of magic.