Awestruck and helpless in the face of a cruel and omnipresent despotism, with little light from accredited systems of philosophy or religion, what wonder that even the highest and most cultivated minds were darkened and bewildered, and were even ready to lend an ear to the sorcery of the mysterious East?
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
"It sounds almost absurd-but-I wanted to tell you-we ought to pray," he stammers, "it is the best thing against sorcery!"
"Stories and Pictures"
Isaac Loeb Peretz
No doubt he would be accused of causing the conditions at the farm by sorcery.
"Flight From Tomorrow"
Henry Beam Piper