To cast a spell upon.
And further, this examinate saith, that she sent both her spirits to Stonesby, to one Willison, a husbandman, and Robert Williman, a husbandman's son, and bade the kitten go to Willison and bewitch him to death, and the moldiwarp to the other and bewitch him to death, which they did, and within ten days they died.
To fascinate or charm.
I was bewitched by the sight of the girl dancing in the forest.
To astonish, amaze.
Is it not a fact that the miners of this country are bewildered and bewitched and do not know what is to happen?
From Middle English bewicchen, bewycchen, biwicchen, equivalent to be- + witch.
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