invultuation

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A form of witchcraft: piercing a wax or clay image of a person in order to harm them. uncountable
    — "What, then?" asked the porter. "Hire a witch-wife to burke him by invultuation, with a waxen image and pins?"

词源

From Latin invultare (“to stab the face of”), from vultus (“face”).
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