The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.
Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.
The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.
Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck.
A set of spiritual practices and traditions created and concealed from slave-owners by enslaved Africans in North America, based on traditional African beliefs.
A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands.
A practitioner of voodoo.
To jinx; to bring bad luck or misfortune to.