:b. In later use disconnected from the notion of witchcraft: To deprive of the [[power]] of [[escape]] or [[resistance]], as serpents are said to do through the [[terror]] produced by their look or merely by their perceived [[presence]]. | :b. In later use disconnected from the notion of witchcraft: To deprive of the [[power]] of [[escape]] or [[resistance]], as serpents are said to do through the [[terror]] produced by their look or merely by their perceived [[presence]]. |