﴿ وَمِن شَرِّ ٱلنَّفَّٰثَٰتِ فِى ٱلْعُقَدِ ﴾

“"and from the evil of all human beings bent on occult endeavours,”

and from the evil of the women-blowers sorceresses who blow on knots which they knot into strings blowing into them certain words but without spittle; however al-Zamakhsharī says ‘with this spittle’ — sorceresses such as the daughters of the said Labīd —