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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2014-02-27 07:20 am

pishogue

pishogue (pi-SHOHG) - n., sorcery, witchcraft; a hex, an evil spell.


Very strong connotation of black magic, designed to cause ill -- but not actually denotation, as it can also describe the cure. This is an Irish word, from Gaelic piseog.

---L.