enchantment

noun

Etymology: From Middle English enchauntement, from Old French enchantement.

1. The act of enchanting or the feeling of being enchanted.

   “I see now that it's all enchantment in this house; for the last time, on this very spot where I am now, I got ever so many thumps and thwacks without knowing who gave them to me, or being able to see anybody; and now this head is not to be seen anywhere about, though I saw it cut off with my own eyes and the blood running from the body as if from a fountain.”

2. Something that enchants; a magical spell.

   “Bodin, the medieval demonographer, enumerates various methods of producing anaphrodisiac effects by enchantments.”