A term for witchcraft, hexing practices, or the condition of being bewitched.
Likely from Germanic roots related to 'Hexe' (witch) with a Latin or Latinized suffix '-is'. This may be a scholarly or medical term for bewitchment or magical illness.
Medieval and early modern doctors sometimes diagnosed 'hexeris' or bewitchment as a real medical condition, blending folklore with proto-scientific thinking in ways that both validated and pathologized people's suffering.
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