HELP! I need more words!

[Tuisto]

I'm trying my hardest to browse though english as well as other indo-european language to find more words to describe "Magic", use and casting etc...
Really good words like; Cantrip, and the like. And I KNOW there are more out there...

I'm really quite desperate, because otherwise the 3 to 4 (or more, who knows?) paragraphs of Daimakaicho Ranma I'm currently working on will have a boring word repeat every 5th to twelfth word. And I just can't tolerate something so mundane... and seeing things like that just reek to me of bad writing.

So, any of you fine folks have ANYTHING that may better describe "magic" that my perusing of the internet dictionaries and thesauri has failed to yield?
please say yes...



Thanks.

[Comartemis]

There's always spellcraft and magik, which I think is how the Wikkans spell it.

[Spokavriel]

NOUN: 1. The use of skillful tricks and deceptions to produce entertainingly baffling effects: conjuration, legerdemain, prestidigitation, sleight of hand. See PERFORMING ARTS. 2. The use of supernatural powers to influence or predict events: conjuration, sorcery, sortilege, thaumaturgy, theurgy, witchcraft, witchery, witching, wizardry. See SUPERNATURAL. 3. An object or power that one uses to cause often evil events: charm, evil eye, spell2. Slang : whammy. See SUPERNATURAL.
ADJECTIVE: Having, brought about by, or relating to supernatural powers or magic: fey, magical, talismanic, thaumaturgic, thaumaturgical, theurgic, theurgical, witching, wizardly. See SUPERNATURAL.

You can find even more putting each of these words into a Thesaurus search. Now for a kind of spell a Glamour which is a simple illusion.

[Cheb]

I tried to think of something new but came up with only the Russian word "vorozhba". Translates as "augury", if I'm correct.
Also, there's always "sorcery", "enchanting", "witchcraft" and "shamanism".

[Daniel Jess Gibson]

I'm trying my hardest to browse though english as well as other indo-european language to find more words to describe "Magic", use and casting etc...
So, any of you fine folks have ANYTHING that may better describe "magic" that my perusing of the internet dictionaries and thesauri has failed to yield?
please say yes...

Yes, the first and the best:
Roget's Thesaurus - in book form http://thesaurus.reference.com/(online if you must).
It is truly:

Main Entry: magic
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: charm
Synonyms: abracadabra*, alchemy, allurement, astrology, augury, bewitchment, black art, conjuring, conjury, devilry, diabolism, divination, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, foreboding, fortune-telling, hocus-pocus, horoscopy, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, magnetism, necromancy, occultism, power, prediction, presage, prestidigitation, prophecy, rune, soothsaying, sorcery, sortilege, spell, superstition, taboo, thaumaturgy, trickery, voodoo, voodooism, witchcraft, wizardry
Antonyms: dullness

Main Entry: magic spell
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: magic formula
Synonyms: abracadabra, chant, conjuration, hex, hocus-pocus, incantation, jinx, magic charm, magic words, mumbo-jumbo

Main Entry: magical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bewitching
Synonyms: bewitched, charismatic, clairvoyant, conjuring, demoniac, diabolic, eerie, enchanted, enchanting, ensorcelled, entranced, entrancing, extraordinary, fascinating, fiendish, ghostly, haunted, imaginary, magic, magnetic, marvelous, miraculous, mysterious, mystic, mythical, necromantic, occult, otherworldly, parapsychological, runic, sorcerous, spectral, spellbinding, spellbound, spiritualistic, spooky, telekinetic, thaumaturgic, tranced, uncanny, unusual, weird, witching, witchlike, wizardly, wonderful
Antonyms: boring, dull

Main Entry: black magic
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sorcery
Synonyms: diabolism, magic, necromancy, voodoo, witchcraft, wizardry

Main Entry: black magic
Part of Speech: noun 2
Definition: witchcraft or sorcery
Synonyms: Satanism, black art, demon worship, demonianism, diabolism, magic, mysticism, necromancy, sorcery, voodoo, witchcraft, witchery, wizardry

Main Entry: charm
Part of Speech: noun 1
Definition: enchantment
Synonyms: agreeableness, allure, allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, beauty, bewitchery, charisma, chemistry, conjuration, delightfulness, desirability, fascination, glamour, grace, lure, magic, magnetism, pizzazz*, something*, sorcery, spell*, star quality
Antonyms: hatefulness, repulsiveness

Main Entry: charmed circle
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: exclusive group
Synonyms: closed circle, elite, fairy ring, in-crowd, in-group, inner circle, magic circle, popular crowd

Main Entry: cure-all
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: panacea
Synonyms: catholicon, elixir, magic bullet, magic potion, nostrum, theriac, universal remedy
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1)

I still recommend the book form, Thesaurus and Thesaurus II

- Phrontistery, not for the faint minded

Google 'obscure words' and you'll have an eldritch experience

Infrastructure - the tools you need to build the tools you need.

[bissek]

The gaelic term is dweomer.

[lwf58]

Tuisto is asking for synonyms that he can substitute for "magic" to avoid repetition in his paragraphs.

Words like conjuration, sorcery, thaumaturgy, theurgy, witchcraft, witchery, witching, and wizardry all mean different things; they are NOT interchangeable. Each describes a different kind of magic, that uses a different style of casting, and achieves a different result. I'd explain what they really mean, but right now I don't have the time before I have to go.