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Agatha had put Ralph under a spell, forcing him to play Wanda’s brother Pietro in her ruse to steal Wanda’s dark magic.
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Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 19 Oct. 2024
This is when Billy learns that Agatha’s still in Westview under a spell.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024
Kathryn Hahn reprises her role as the titular witch, still trapped in Westview under a spell Elisabeth Olsen's Wanda Maximoff placed on her in the previous show's finale.
—Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week Us, theweek, 5 Sep. 2024
So the King hires a hitman (the adorable Puss in Boots, voiced by Antonio Banderas) to murder him, so their daughter, who was placed under a spell at birth that turns her into an ogre at midnight, can break the spell and become a beautiful human.
—Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2024
When Rosie runs into a sleeping princess in a tower, there's an option to kiss the princess, who is under a spell, to wake her up.
—Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 12 Jan. 2024
Some portion of the country labored always under a spell.
—Stacy Schiff, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022
Perhaps fittingly, then, the plan’s execution seems to be under a spell too, with everyone lost in an entanglement of sloppiness, cross-purposes and bad luck.
—Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 19 Aug. 2023
Yet Black residents like Marcus Jones speak about life here as if under a spell.
—Tyrone Beasonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2022
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Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 19 Oct. 2024
This is when Billy learns that Agatha’s still in Westview under a spell.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024
Kathryn Hahn reprises her role as the titular witch, still trapped in Westview under a spell Elisabeth Olsen's Wanda Maximoff placed on her in the previous show's finale.
—Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week Us, theweek, 5 Sep. 2024
So the King hires a hitman (the adorable Puss in Boots, voiced by Antonio Banderas) to murder him, so their daughter, who was placed under a spell at birth that turns her into an ogre at midnight, can break the spell and become a beautiful human.
—Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2024
When Rosie runs into a sleeping princess in a tower, there's an option to kiss the princess, who is under a spell, to wake her up.
—Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 12 Jan. 2024
Some portion of the country labored always under a spell.
—Stacy Schiff, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022
Perhaps fittingly, then, the plan’s execution seems to be under a spell too, with everyone lost in an entanglement of sloppiness, cross-purposes and bad luck.
—Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 19 Aug. 2023
Yet Black residents like Marcus Jones speak about life here as if under a spell.
—Tyrone Beasonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2022
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“Under a spell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/under%20a%20spell. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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