invultuation
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin invultare (“to stab the face of”), from vultus (“face”).
Noun
[edit]invultuation (uncountable)
- A form of witchcraft: piercing a wax or clay image of a person in order to harm them.
- 1973, L. Sprague de Camp, The Rug and the Bull:
- "What, then?" asked the porter. "Hire a witch-wife to burke him by invultuation, with a waxen image and pins?"