cantrip

To fellow brokers downstairs on the floor of the Stock Exchange he had merely whispered the compelling cantrip of the bulls: "I've got a good thing!"

From Time Magazine Archive

With anxious countenance and attentive ears, they listened to the cantrip effusions of these pretended oracles, which prognosticated the bright or gloomy days of futurity.

From Thaumaturgia by An Oxonian

It is a strange cantrip, Mary," said the General; "I suppose you'll be going to give him something.

From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Neil Munro

As Waverley passed him, he pulled off his hat respectfully, and approaching his stirrup, bade him 'Tak heed the auld Whig deevil played him nae cantrip.'

From Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since by Sir Walter Scott

Then, with cantrip kisses seven,   Three times round with kisses seven, Warp'd and woven there spun we Arms and legs and flaming hair, Like a whirlwind on the sea.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch