Word: witched
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...Beechcraft Baron light executive plane. And from the vast Kalahari Desert just outside of town, a blinding sandstorm that nearly ripped Botswana's new black-white-and-blue flag from the pole before it could be tied down. As fireworks illuminated the swirling sand clouds overhead, a tribal witch doctor swept back his cockerel headdress, tucked his baboonskin shirt between his knees, and flashed a mossy grin. "There will be rain," he predicted. "Everyone will...
Baseball players, like witch doctors, are a mighty superstitious lot. Take Gaylord Jackson Perry, 27, who pitches for the San Francisco Giants. Righthander Perry really likes steak, but his wife once gave him baked chicken before he went out to pitch. He won. So then it was chicken every workday. In the dugout before each game, he grabs the bat rack and gives it a shake-which puts the whammy on enemy batters. Before every inning, he runs out to the mound at full speed. Before a key pitch, he studiously turns his back to the plate and taps...
...Peninsula lofted themselves into the dazzling world of the gods with the mushroom Amanita muscaria, and discovered that the visions of one eater could be passed to as many as five others if each one drank the urine of the man before him. In South America, long before Columbus, witch doctors took cohoba snuff to converse with gods and the dead...
...time that 'Arold had moved too far left of Liberal. "We felt his continued membership would be a blot on the club's escutcheon," sniffed the group's secretary-elect. Their replacement was sufficiently weird: Mrs. Eleanor Bone, High Priestess of the Worshipful Coven of London Witches. Croaked the Liberal witch at her Cumberland cottage, called "Witchwood": "Poor Mr. Wilson. I didn't even cast a spell...
...Madame Mère, Napoleon's mother, was the most impressive personage on the Napoleonic scene. Tiny, skinny, weasel-eyed and taciturn, she looked like a witch in a fairy tale and held her family under an unshakable spell...