Dictionary: "malediction" a prayer for harm to come to someone - a curse "malefice" An evil deed; artifice; enchantment. "evil eye" an eye or glance thought to be able to do harm "Michael, Gabriel, Raphael" three of the four archangels named in Hebrew tradition -- The 4th is: URIEL "perfidy" the quality or state of being faithless or disloyal : TREACHERY