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enchantment: see magic magic, in religion and superstition, the practice of manipulating and controlling the course of nature by preternatural means. Magic is based upon the belief that the universe is populated by unseen forces or spirits that permeate all things. ..... Click the link for more information. . Enchantment Alidoro fairy godfather to Italian Cinderella. [Ital. Opera: Rossini, Cinderella, Westerman, 120–121] under spell, grows ass’s head. [Br. Lit.: A Midsummer Night’s Dream] enchantment lasts only till midnight. [Fr. Fairy Tale: Cinderella] enchantress who changes Odysseus’s men into swine. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey; Rom. Lit.: Aeneid] evil spirit who, by casting a spell, induces Christabel to bring her into her father’s castle. [Br. Lit.: S.T. Coleridge “Christabel” in Benét, 195]
bewitching realm of magic and mystery. [Am. Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz] water nymph of the Rhine; lured sailors to their doom with her singing. [Ger. Folklore: Leach, 645] enchanter; one of Charlemagne’s paladins. [Fr. Folk-lore: Harvey, 526] bewitches Antonia into singing despite doctor’s orders. [Fr. Opera: Offenbach, Tales of Hoffmann, Westerman, 275–276] fairy king orders love charm placed on wife. [Br. Lit.: A Midsummer Night’s Dream] his singing opens the gates of the underworld. [Ger. Opera: Gluck, Orpheus and Euridyce, Westerman, 72] charms children of Hamelin with music. [Children’s Lit.: “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” in Dramatic Lyrics, Fisher, 279–281] Irish fairy spell that distorts reality. [Irish Folklore: Briggs, 327–328] ascribes all his misfortunes to the machinations of enchanters. [Span. Lit.: Cervantes Don Quixote] spins yams for Sultan for 1001 nights. [Arab. Lit.: Arabian Nights] Czech Orpheus; bagpipe music moves even Queen Iceheart. [Czech Opera: Weinberger, Schwanda, Westerman, 412] with song, bird-women lure sailors to death. [Gk. Myth.: Odyssey] sleeps for 100 years. [Fr. Fairy Tale, The Sleeping Beauty] experiences spell-induced fascination over Bottom. [Br. Lit.: A Midsummer Night’s Dream] returns to village after sleep of 20 years. [Am. Lit.: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.] indicates bewitching powers. [Flower Symbolism: Flora S ymbo lica, 178] the Lady of the Lake, enchantress and mistress of Merlin. [Br. Lit.: Barnhart, 1118] |
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| However he had nullified the force of the enchantment by prayer, and had killed my thirteen knights in a three hours' battle, and taken me prisoner, sparing my life in order that so strange a curiosity as I was might be exhibited to the wonder and admiration of the king and the court. She had no rest now till she had found out where the King guarded the reel, and then she made some little white shirts, and, as she had learnt from her witch-mother, sewed an enchantment in each of them. She combs with a comb that is golden, And sings a weird refrain That steeps in a deadly enchantment The list'ner's ravished brain: |
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