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.
A person or thing supposed to bring bad luck.
A hex; an evil spell.
Used after the same thing is said by two people simultaneously.
To cast a spell on.
To bring bad luck to.
To cause something to happen by mentioning it, usually sarcastically.