Any art that invokes supernatural powers.

synonym: magic.

Roget 870: wonder, marvel; astonishment, amazement, wonderment, bewilderment; amazedness etc. adj.^†; admiration, awe; stupor, stupefaction; stound^†, fascination; sensation; surprise etc. (inexpectation) 508^†.    note of admiration; thaumaturgy etc. (sorcery) 992^†.    ... show more

Dutch: toverkracht, toveren, goochelen, duivelskunstenarij, hekserij, magie, tovenarij, toverij, toverkunst
Polish: czary, magia

An illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers.

synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, trick.

Roget 992: sorcery; occult art, occult sciences; magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy^†; demonology, demonomy^†, demonship^†; diablerie [Fr.], bedevilment; witchcraft, witchery; glamor; fetishism, fetichism, feticism^†; ghost dance, hoodoo; obi, obiism^†; voodoo, voodooism; Shamanism (Esquimaux), vampirism; conjuration; bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism; od force, odylic force^†; electrobiology^†, clairvoyance; spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning.    divination etc. (prediction) 511; sortilege^†, ordeal, sortes Virgilianae^†; hocus-pocus etc. (deception) 545.    ... show more

Dutch: gegoochel, goochelarij, goochelkunst, hocus-pocus, illusionisme
Polish: trik, trick, sztuczka