Saudi Arabia has recently beheaded women for “sorcery” but has avoided apostasy trials involving its few Christian converts.
In Sudan a Pregnant Woman May Be Hanged for Marrying a Christian|Nina Shea|May 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For foreign household workers in Saudi Arabia, most of them women, sorcery charges are more common than you might think.
Will Saudi Arabia Execute Guest Workers for 'Witchcraft'?|Michael Schulson|March 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Saudi citizens, too, have been arraigned, and executed, for sorcery.
Will Saudi Arabia Execute Guest Workers for 'Witchcraft'?|Michael Schulson|March 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I still felt under the influence of the sorcery that had been practiced upon me.
The Brass Bell|Eugne Sue
There are no lifeless spots in his works; every whim of his takes shape, as if by sorcery, in splendid figures.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 3 (of 4)|Richard Muther
In the year 1728 a witch-finder discovered that a stout tall woman, suspected of sorcery, did not weigh more than four ounces.
The Mysteries of All Nations|James Grant
At what date the higher cult of sorcery or magic became the drivel known as witchcraft is uncertain.
The Devil in Britain and America|John Ashton
In this late autumnal time there was no view of the Thames gleaming beneath the sorcery of a summer night.
Sinister Street, vol. 1|Compton Mackenzie
British Dictionary definitions for sorcery
sorcery
/ (ˈsɔːsərɪ) /
nounplural-ceries
the art, practices, or spells of magic, esp black magic, by which it is sought to harness occult forces or evil spirits in order to produce preternatural effects in the world
Derived forms of sorcery
sorcerous, adjective
Word Origin for sorcery
C13: from Old French sorcerie, from sorciersorcerer