A form of witchcraft in which an image of a person is made ,usually of wax,and then stabbed with pins,thorns,or the like, or slowly melted before a fire, it being supposed that the person imaged will suffer injury or waste away in death in consequence. The superstition is as old as human culture and spread throughout a great part of the world.
A form of witchcraft in which an image of a person is made ,usually of wax,and then stabbed with pins,thorns,or the like, or slowly melted before a fire, it being supposed that the person imaged will suffer injury or waste away in death in consequence. The superstition is as old as human culture and spread throughout a great part of the world.