You wield flimsy firearms instead of magical incantations or ancient swords.
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Muslims perform day-long prayers, incantations and recitations from the Quran.
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Rabbis and cantors wish Muslims "Shabbat Shalom" and regale them with Hebrew incantations.
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They will share stories of strange incantations to gods we do not understand.
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Let your turkey sit in the concoction overnight while you whisper dark incantations.
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Color War's latest song starts in ambient swathes with singer Lindsay Mound's ethereal incantations.
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They burned sage, rang bells, clanged cymbals chanted incantations, and cast a salt circle.
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Dogs, roaches, beer, Mexican muralists and credos from Theodor Adorno reappear in shifting incantations.
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An Ethiopian recipe book from 2212 is filled with protective charms, talismans and incantations.
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Wilson glided serenely over these contradictions for a long time, repeating his magical incantations.
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His intense new album is called "Incantations," and he doesn't come by that title lightly.
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On "Separating," her breathy incantations fit snugly into the equation: somehow both fey and reassuring.
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YOB songs, which often exceed fifteen minutes, are contemplative incantations similar to chakra-alignment music.
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The chorus's hypnotic incantations have the undergirding of a glistening orchestral landscape, sometimes swaying, sometimes blooming.
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There are scrolls containing incantations I can't read, and I put them in my pockets for later.
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From the start, "Incantations" is emphatically an ensemble piece rather than a heroic platform for a soloist.
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As they buzzed around the space, what sounded like casual conversation alternated with catchy songs and incantations.
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"Loyal" is one of a pair of new songs, and it's quasi-mystical in its tender incantations.
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His weird science—intended to change base metals into gold—starts innocently enough, with chemistry and incantations.
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But next time you find yourself down with the flu, surely uttering a few magical incantations won't hurt.
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The Incantations of Daniel Johnston is a visceral collaboration between Spanish artist Ricardo Cavolo and author Scott McClanahan.
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Enter the Dr. Feelgoods, who promise hope against hopelessness, help against helplessness, whose incantations calm, soothe and relieve.
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It turns out that you don't need incantations or even a "magic wand" to improve manufacturing job growth.
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Incantations to the devil are often chanted during their ceremonies as they ask for help with difficult magic.
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They came with wish lists and whispers of their "unicorns," whose Latin names sounded like incantations: adansonii, patriciae, obliqua.
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While much of Europe basked on the beach, elaborate rites and unfamiliar incantations could be overheard in the French capital.
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THE exorcist, Philippe Moscato, walks from room to room in a large Paris flat, sprinkling blessed water and offering incantations.
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Throughout the album, Mr. Kiwanuka sings as if he were in some private purgatory, offering incantations only he will hear.
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The Harry Potter series, with its incantations and wizardry, has also come under fire (and brimstone) for ostensibly promoting occultism.
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Note the plush strings powerful incantations of "Marionettes" ("Surrender to the kiss of the abyss," is her glowering final line).
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When her friends began to die, we would say their names, like we ourselves were weaving spells, singing their incantations.
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After a while, determined women shouting Latin incantations while scowling at the camera starts to feel like Harry Potter runoff.
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It was topped with the chameleonic vocals of Mathias Muzaza, who moved from a smooth croon to rasping, riveting incantations.
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And that's before we get to the half-sibling incest and the slave ship flashbacks and the Native American incantations.
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Incantations about the virtues of patient dialogue and win-win cooperation are not finding any takers in the Korean crisis.
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They invoke deities (of which there are very, very many) through incantations, anointments, tarot card readings, and other forms of witchcraft.
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But whether the faith that he presides over survives as anything more than a set of empty incantations is more questionable.
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"Incantations" (Clean Feed) Perhaps you've heard it said that the saxophone is the musical instrument that most closely resembles the human voice.
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I want to enter that altered state of consciousness while I'm performing, so that those performances are actually invocations, or even incantations.
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He could do baleful blue-eyed soul, he could do liquid silk smooth italo disco, he could do sandy bottomed balearic incantations.
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Other illustrations show the monstrous demons in action, attempting to inflict harm on humans with inscriptions of spells and incantations in Farsi.
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The last, "Various Incantations of a Tibetan Seamstress," is notable for the droll approach it takes to the practice of Tantric Buddhism.
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Onstage, Mr. Rock has always had the intonations of a preacher — which his grandfather was — repeating premises until they sound like incantations.
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In a demo for the game I watched at E3 last week, Jesse could be heard quietly repeating incantations or mantras to herself.
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Only by excluding some of these pretty large legacies, can Bagehot question whether the Thatcher "faithsurvives as anything more than empty incantations".
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HE'S NO ALI He prefers to hurl spells, incantations and mystic bolts, but Doctor Strange will engage in physical combat if he has to.
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" Bombings would be celebrated, Hawwa continued: "They don't have any means of doing a celebration, they just celebrate with shouting, with gunshots, all the incantations.
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At a few points, staff members drew a curtain in front of the machine, presumably to perform mysterious incantations — or just to restock the Snapbot.
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At our local wat, monks often chant for dogs, cats, hamsters, lizards, snakes and turtles, the prayer hall filling with the murmur of their incantations.
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They lose all knowledge of the machines, so they become priests who bang on the machine and say incantations and they hope the machine works.
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In newspaper columns, and on social media, the usual right-wing apologias — the incantations about self-reliance and trickle-down economics — have temporarily fallen silent.
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They depict the history of medicine in the Philippines, from animistic rituals and incantations to Christian ministrations and thence to American interventions and the modern era.
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Despite the endless incantations of "Brexit Means Brexit," the past few months of to-and-fro between Brussels and London has shown it's not that simple.
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Another is Jane Hammond's Spells and Incantations , which is various prints collaged into a three-dimensional sculptural self-portrait in the style of an Egyptian sarcophagus.
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Another is Jane Hammond's Spells and Incantations, which is various prints collaged into a three-dimensional sculptural self-portrait in the style of an Egyptian sarcophagus.
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He was interested in doing it as a poem, as a poem was originally done in days or cultures where incantations were important and were respected.
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Lines from a letter written by Sam Melville, an Attica inmate who later died in the violence, are repeated, like incantations, over a seething, building din.
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My mother would intone the appropriate incantations to drive out the evil spirits, and sprinkle our family, our home, and its surroundings with her lustral libations.
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The spectral crowd would take up the lines I'd been replaying earlier, and then, more mystically, recite incantations whose content never quite slipped over into comprehensibility.
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Urban folk artist Bunnie Reiss' works are magical offerings, protection charms, and visual incantations that seek to remind viewers to focus on the good, despite the bad.
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My teeth and lips were deeply stained with chlorophyll, and I very much wanted to drink water but didn't ask because I felt uncomfortable interrupting her incantations.
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Over more than 40 years, she has been, sometimes all at once, a poet, essayist, novelist, humorist, naturalist, critic, theologian, collagist and full-throated singer of mystic incantations.
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Today's acrostic quote is by Brenda Miller, and while I didn't need to do any special "Incantations" to solve it, it gave me a good run for my money.
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Gideon, in a temporary appearance, sang along with his clay figures — they tell the story in rap, song, and incantations — and became an animated storyteller of the whole tale.
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In a riveting roll call — imbued with the incantations and solemnity of a church service — 100 senators, one by one, announced "guilty" or "not guilty" before a national audience.
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It's faintly astonishing to recall that Kelly was just 26-years-old when Donnie Darko was completed, with the script knocking about in various incantations for years prior to that.
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He describes visiting the "Messenger" known as Won Ja-kyong in 1973, and watching him and his followers chant incantations in front of brightly colored circles drawn on a wall.
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In London for a one-off supper club linked to her recently published cookbook Eivissa: The Ibiza Cookbook, her conversation slips into incantations of Ibizan foodstuffs, which she recites like liturgies.
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I wanted to learn about Nazi book burnings, those bonfires that were known as Feuerspruches — "fire incantations" — in which books considered subversive were "sentenced to death" and thrown into a bonfire.
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But it's dramatically potent, as is this premiere staging of "Music for the End," a shadowy, otherworldly rite, almost medieval in its soberly overlapping incantations, with drone layered on slow babble.
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Could Sophocles have predicted that "Oedipus at Colonus" would finally find its truest rhythm through the musical incantations of a Pentecostal, Black gospel choir nearly 2,400 years after its first production?
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Public safety, national security and the rule of law are among the incantations the Trump administration likes to chant when rolling out one of its deliberately and pointlessly cruel immigration policies.
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We did earthquake drills in elementary school, hiding under our desks with our hands clasped over our necks, after which I performed late-night incantations to ward off the Big One.
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"Incantations" is his four-part suite for Paloma Recio, a limber and volatile quartet with the guitarist Ben Monder, the bassist Eivind Opsvik and the drummer Nasheet Waits, all expert shape-shifters.
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But the Trump administration's incantations about peace, as split images of the ceremony on TV screens showed Gazans storming the Israel-Gaza barrier, are not the same as an actual improvement in security.
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In 1974, when Mr. Braufman was deeply embedded on New York's radical free-jazz scene, he recorded "Valley of Search," a record of darkly melodic improvising and portentous incantations and extempore group explosions.
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Beijing's incantations about "win-win cooperation" and its alleged search of a harmonious "great power relationship" ring hollow when confronted with an unwisely excessive and systematic trade surplus China maintains with the United States.
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They hail from Gloucestershire in England and started dropping spectral, folk-dipped pop about six months ago, beginning with "Universe"—a song of hypnotic incantations with a smidge of Fiona Apple in there too.
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She had become obsessed with how their power worked, the byways and darkened corners in which it pooled, the schemes and incantations that turned neutral processes, dull forms, and obscure meetings into its handmaidens.
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Its songs, some of which are topical, draw on the rhythms and incantations of voodoo, the trumpeting of rara carnival music and hearty call-and-response vocal harmonies on their way to galloping, exultant dance grooves.
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What's separating me from the Skin I Want (downy soft, smooth, and glowy) and the Skin I Have (easily inflamed and itchy, dull, dry) is my refusal in memorizing and executing these small rituals and incantations.
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Others might suggest that the screenless internet, if it comes, will bring its own peculiar horrors: Picture dead-eyed AirPodders mumbling incantations to robotic assistants as they amble zombielike through Times Square (directed by Jordan Peele).
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SAVAGES "Adore Life" (Matador) Love is a elemental, colossal force on the second album by Savages: one that can be barely contained within the drone, gallop, blare and incantations of the English quartet's post-punk onslaught.
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Success in the afterlife required an aptitude for arcane theology, a command of potent resurrection spells and incantations and a knowledge of the names not just of Underworld doorkeepers but also of door bolts and floorboards.
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Nicholas Kiplagat, secretary of the Kong'ot council of elders, said naked old men slaughtered a white goat and recited incantations at dawn, instead of seeking justice through Kenya's courts, which are widely regarded as slow and corrupt.
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She sings with an operatic soprano, a death-rattle rasp, work-song rhythms, sustained shrieks, long-lined modal incantations and rapid-fire gibberish; her piano can hint at bluesy boogie-woogie, tinkling Minimalism and cracked church bells.
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Welcome to Incantations, a series of esoteric mixes from THUMP UK. We're looking to explore the nooks and crannies of club culture, situating ourselves in the liminal spaces between dancefloors, seeking solace in the obscure and the unearthed.
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Holzer invokes in these works the lurid madness of biblical prophets from Isaiah to John the Evangelist, pouring out her own incantations, not via divine inspiration, but through a ruthless criticism of everything existing (to invoke Karl Marx).
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And thus Bono and the rest of U2 become cool, by virtue of Patti Smith's incantations, that make her sound like she's channelling the spirit of "Howl"-era Allen Ginsberg, and her great plaits and her very presence.
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In "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord," a comedy until it isn't, four teenage girls, turned on by proximity to power, try to conjure the spirit of Pablo Escobar with Ouija boards and incantations borrowed from Candomblé and Santería.
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In 1982 she released her debut album,The Litanies Of Satan, a sparse soundscape of tormenting screams, incantations and poetry that showcased her famed vocal acrobatics and included an 18-minute performance piece titled Wild Women With Steak Knives.
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Nilufer Yanya: Miss Universe (ATO) When Nilufer Yanya first started releasing bent guitar laments, her talent was for starkness–she sang incantations disguised as confessionals, conjuring fascination just from her spacey voice, percussive chords, and the power of repetition.
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The tablets, primarily from the Ur III and Old Babylonian period (2100-1600 BCE), are mostly legal and administrative documents, but also include an important collection of Early Dynastic incantations and a bilingual religious text from the Neo-Babylonian period.
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One of the few real precedents I see for their genreless incantations is Liturgy's unfairly maligned 2015 record The Ark Work, an album by a band previously understood to make metal that was now suddenly influenced by Three 6 Mafia.
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It starts out as a nostalgic idyll: But in the second verse, in the same careful and quiet tone, Stevens sings about familial terror: The protagonist slips into some incantations of his own to stave off the fear and misery.
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The texts compiled here — "the only book devoted to a single painting of a living American artist," according to the catalogue for a recent traveling exhibition of the painter's work — include newspaper reviews, critical essays, reminiscences, business letters, and poetic incantations.
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"The City" that populates his songs is the distilled experiences of life, the Toronto that only truly exists to him, filtered through his singular vision and broadcast out to the world along with incantations of every woman that didn't check back with him.
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Muzak aside, there's something to this whole "shops using mysterious ancient incantations to make us buy $30 T-shirts," so we spoke to Dr. Gorkan Ahmetoglu, a lecturer in business psychology at University College London, to find out how it all works.
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The disputes kept simmering despite a slew of high-level exchanges and empty shells of ritual incantations about mutual benefits from friendly and cooperative relations, while Beijing and Tokyo knew that they were making no progress at all on their irreconcilable differences.
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His literary drugs of choice included the ancient Greek tragedian Aeschylus, the gorier plays of William Shakespeare, the anarchical prophesies of Friedrich Nietzsche, and the incantations of poet T.S. Eliot, novelist Joseph Conrad, and former Surrealists like Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris.
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"Pragmatic advances and patient construction with those who are ready and willing for a political convergence in defense are infinitely preferable to totally illusory and even counterproductive slogans and incantations," said Arnaud Danjean, a member of the foreign and defense committee at the European parliament.
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Amy Nicholson, The Guardian: DuVernay's updated L'Engle is totally for kids...However, this Wrinkle in Time doesn't seem made for the kind of actual, human children who dogeared the five-paperback series with playground-grimy nails muttering the words "tesseract" and "liverwurst" to themselves like mysterious incantations.
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Among the activities: selecting and decorating a badge from one of Hogwarts's four houses; creating a wand, after which an aspiring witch or wizard can explore the origins of historical incantations in word roots from several languages; and making and breaking secret codes, using old-fashioned ciphers.
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Before I started sharing my bed with a gigantic man and a dog, I woke up at 4:30, because I just did, and went through this ballet of meditation, visualization, intentions, incantations, lemon water, green tea, apple-cider vinegar, a Halloween-haul of vitamins, a cauldron of smoothie.
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But that was when I thought facts had power, when what we think of as the truth was based more on observable reality and less on the incantations of paranoid uncles who would rather die of preventable diseases than let America's first black president leave an intact legacy.
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As the tunes kept coming, these fast, furious blasts of high tempo wreckage, mangled incantations pinged in from another universe, a universe where the lumbering thump of house and techno's 4/4 rigidity is viewed with suspicion, I felt myself falling deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole.
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Here's an idea for a fix: With a modest change to the Communications Act, Congress could prevent the invocation of meaningless incantations such as "competition, competition, competition" from substituting for rigorous economic analysis that fairly accounts for the dramatic changes that have taken place in most segments of the communications marketplace.
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And so, it was that after a few simple incantations and the feeding of carefully encoded metaphysical data into various corners of the darknet that we were able to convince one of the hive minds straddling the man/machine border to write for us the the song you are now listening to.
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Some are heavily reliant on a referee or Games Master leading players through the plot, while others are more weighted towards combat—which can encompass anything from full-scale wars with latex weaponry and strict rules on how many 'hits' a player can take before they go down, to 'magical' battles where spells and incantations can be used to heal and faux-maim.
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With his 2013 memoir Crapalachia, his 2014 novel Hill William, and 2016's The Incantations of Daniel Johnston, a graphic novel with artist Ricardo Cavolo, McClanahan has established himself as one of indie lit's most popular writers, a charismatic performer whose singular, dramatic readings of his work are akin to experiencing a literary revival meeting, equal parts rapture and reverence.
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The argument that the group use for its projects—creating a gigantic bronze statue of Baphomet for the lawn of the Oklahoma State House, opening city council meetings with Satanic incantations, distributing coloring books featuring the dark lord to schools across the country—is a simple one hinging on the desire to ensure no single religion receives preferential treatment from the government.
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One of the many standout works is Norberto Roland's "Incantations in the land of virgins monsters, sorcerers, and angry gods" (1999–2019), composed of assemblages of textiles incorporating patadyongs, a traditional woven textile, often muted in color, and worn by the women in the Visayas region of the Philippines against a backdrop of brightly colored floral mass-produced fabrics from China.
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There are parts of the video that are a little murky: the warm-up batter on the side seems to be hitting a ball right at the actual batter, there's a kid uttering some creepy incantations as he rubs his butt against the fence; the whole thing feels cut a little bit short, and has the general sense of something that could have been bobbing around on the internet forever.
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Not surprisingly, and quite unfortunately, so much was made of the dark, unsettling, and lurid contents of Throbbing Gristle's Second Annual Report —mainly centering around the dialogue or 'lyrics' of Genesis' graphically gruesome spoken-word incantations, which the recordings of a child murderer confessing to his crime, and a calm newscaster seemingly reporting some catastrophe— that one of the most important and distinctive aspects that set their music apart was overlooked.
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In it, he supposedly used Kabbalistic magic, Hebrew letters, paranormal amulets, or mystical incantations to conjure into existence the Golem of Prague: a colossal figure built from mud or other base materials, who protected the Bohemian Jews of the country from the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. Though initially a savior, the Golem of Prague eventually became harmful to those he had saved and had to be destroyed.
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If House Cricks is a collection of dark folk, boogie drone, and threadbare rhythm and blues incantations that settle more like ashes blown from the pages of a lost Cormac McCarthy novel than anything resembling an indie record, "Hanging Mirror" is the moment the primitive shock of the Sun's reflection and human perception come to dominate all mental bandwidth, "when all moral and emotional inhibitions have left," said Evan Patterson, the brooding singer-songwriter force behind Jaye Jayle.
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Vampires, lured you out to an ancient chamber and allowed you to creep up on them through stone-hewn corridors unseen, and you watch with a single eye through an ancient arrow-slit as they perform the incantations and chanting that precede a blood ritual, and just at the final moment of surrender they stare up at you—the Vampire King making perfect pure eye contact with you—and bite into the neck of the innocent, and now you're running but you can't get away, the vampires hissing after you, chasing up and around the walls, crawling rapidly along the ceiling, vampires, vampires, vampires, and then they catch you, so inevitably, with their pale and undead hands, and lean down close to your ear and whisper: You wanna fuck or nah?
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