hex

malédiction, sortilège

Sort destiné à faire du mal ou à porter malheur.

En anglais simple : A magic spell intended to cause harm or bad luck.

• They tried to break the hex.
• She feared a hex had caused her bad luck.
• Who put a hex on this house?

Comment l'utiliser : put a hex on someone/something (The witch put a hex on the village.)

Synonymes : curse, jinx

Contraires : blessing

Expressions courantes : put a hex, break a hex, hex on someone

sorcière

Femme à qui l’on attribue des pouvoirs magiques, surtout malfaisants.

En anglais simple : A woman believed to have magical powers, especially harmful ones.

• Villagers feared the old hex.
• The tale describes a hex who lived alone in the woods.
• They accused their neighbour of being a hex.

Synonymes : witch

Expressions courantes : an old hex, village hex

ensorceler, maudire

Utiliser la magie pour faire du mal à quelqu’un ou lui porter malheur.

En anglais simple : To use magic to bring bad luck or harm to someone.

• The witch threatened to hex him.
• She believed someone had hexed her family.
• In the story, he hexes anyone who enters his garden.

Synonymes : curse, bewitch, jinx

Contraires : bless

Expressions courantes : hex someone, hex an enemy