incantation

“Monument Eternal” is a talisman, an incantation that shows the author fearless and confident in her challenge to the distorting influence of race in America that James Weldon Johnson identified.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

The culprit for the incantation was the image of the now emblematic Pale Man from “Pan’s Labyrinth,” flaunting eyes on his palms on the back cover of the DVD.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025

Chef Anne Burrell had a way of turning instruction into incantation.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2025

Nuns dangling rosary beads, tourists and student priests were among those who joined the gentle incantation of the rosary in the Vatican.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025

As if they were some terrible incantation that made it more real.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

With dialogue about the nature of the divine, processed incantations and titles such as “The Word Becomes Flesh,” Boards of Canada has spiritual matters in mind throughout “Inferno.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

This ritual lasted an entire night and involved burning small figures made of wax and clay while an exorcist recited specific incantations.

From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026

And, in a concession to modernity, as well as holding up feathers in a blessing for the King, the elder was reading his incantations from an iPhone.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025

Though not technically a book, these incantations are collectively known as the Book of the Dead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2023

Unfortunately, they could not copy the spell she was doing because she was now so good at nonverbal incantations that she did not need to say the words aloud.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling