(an act of) criminal dishonesty; a person who pretends to be qualified, to have authority or to want to be kind, but who is or does not

trickery, deception

unintelligible talk; nonsense

nonsense talk

(the seeing of) something that does not really exist; a false or impossible idea

false appearance; false belief

something imposed, e.g. a tax, burden, fine

deception

(the use of) words used in magic

spell, magic

meaningless language

spell, magic

witchcraft (the usual word)

black magic, witchcraft

a form of religion, with magic and witchcraft, practised in the Caribbean especially Haiti

black magic