sorcery(n = noun.cognition) black art, black magic, necromancy - the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world;
is a kind of magic, thaumaturgy
has particulars: witchcraft, witchery, bewitchment, enchantment, demonism, diabolism, satanism, obiism
Derived forms verb sorcerise₁, verb sorcerize₁, adjective sorcerous₁

   Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment. [1913 Webster]
"Adder's wisdom I have learned,
To fence my ear against thy sorceries." [1913 Webster]

N  sorcery, occult art, occult sciences, magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy, demonology, demonomy, demonship, diablerie, 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, sortilege, ordeal, sortes Virgilianae, hocus-pocus, magic, magical, mystic, weird, cabalistic, talismanic, phylacteric, incantatory, charmed, Circean, odylic, voodoo.