"incantator" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1973, Muslim ibn Ḥajjāj al-Qushayrī, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim",
          "text": "We landed at a place where a woman came to us and said: A scorpion has bitten the chief of the tribe. Is there any incantator amongst you?",
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          "ref": "1856, Charles Hamilton Smith, The natural history of dogs",
          "text": "In the metamorphoses of the ancients, the wolf is conspicuous ; and that demons assume its shape, that sorcerers and incantators alternately pass from the human to the lupine form, is believed by the vulgar throughout Asia and Europe; slightly modified it is a common superstition in Abyssinia, and even among the Caffres.",
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          "ref": "2005, Bayo Ogunjimi, Abdul Rasheed Naʼallah, Introduction to African Oral Literature and Performance, page 159",
          "text": "It is obvious that there is a situation of rivalry, since two legs are competing for a road, but the victory of the incantator is ascertained by the fact that flies swarm the excreta.",
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          "ref": "2012, Melvyn Bragg, The Maid of Buttermere",
          "text": "Kitty's mother had been such a black-clothed incantator, full of rhyming recipes for ills and puddings, for scalds and weather and animal magic.",
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        "One who works magic by means of incantation."
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          "text": "We landed at a place where a woman came to us and said: A scorpion has bitten the chief of the tribe. Is there any incantator amongst you?",
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          "ref": "1856, Charles Hamilton Smith, The natural history of dogs",
          "text": "In the metamorphoses of the ancients, the wolf is conspicuous ; and that demons assume its shape, that sorcerers and incantators alternately pass from the human to the lupine form, is believed by the vulgar throughout Asia and Europe; slightly modified it is a common superstition in Abyssinia, and even among the Caffres.",
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        "One who works magic by means of incantation."
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