1.   Hovering over the sick child, the witch doctor muttered mysterious incantations.

2.   Ali said, as he walked toward the meter, muttering an incantation.

3.   Halftime Sunday within the dank innards of RFK Stadium, and the Falcons were muttering old incantations.

4.   He muttered an incantation over the machine, making it bulletproof to competing formats.

5.   Other times, she stared at the court, muttering incantations known only to her.

6.   Crouched in the middle of a crossroads, one of the hunters mutters incantations as he leans over his fetish, a mysterious headless bird.