Question

In a poem commonly titled for this activity, the speaker describes Anaxo leading a procession of animals in a song whose first refrain addresses a wheel named after the “wryneck” bird. Alphesiboeus (“AL-fuh-sib-EE-uss”) responds to Damon with a song about this activity in Virgil’s eighth Eclogue (“ECK-log”), which was inspired by the second Idyll of Theocritus. (-5[1])Two people stealing materials for this activity, one of whom appears in Epodes 5 and 17, are driven off by a farting Priapus statue (10[1])in Horace’s (10[1]-5[1])eighth (10[1])Satire. Lucius disastrously spies on a practitioner of this activity with the help of the slave-girl (-5[1])Photis (-5[1])in Apuleius’s (“APP-yoo-LEE-uss’s”) The Golden Ass. (-5[2])Lucan’s Erichtho (“eric-thoh”) is an expert (10[1])in this skill (10[1])from Thessaly. A practitioner of this skill uses it to kill the giant Talos after butchering her brother Apsyrtus (10[3]-5[1])in the Argonautica. (10[2])For 10 points, name this skill that (10[1])Medea (10[1])masters (10[3])with the assistance of Hecate. (10[3])■END■ (10[6])

ANSWER: witchcraft [or word forms of bewitching; or magic; or spellcasting; or sorcery; accept love spells, necromancy, making potions, or other specific forms of witchcraft; accept magia or pharmakeutria; prompt on herbalism]
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2024 ACF Nationals2024-04-21Y24100%0%29%130.25

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jeffrey FungHarvardVanderbilt53-5
Jisoo YooTexasCornell A7710
Matt JacksonChicago AIndiana7910
Jason HongBrownNYU79-5
Matt SchiavonePurdueNorth Carolina A8010
Ryan SunBerkeley BCornell B96-5
Sanjay SrihariGeorgia TechBerkeley A97-5
Jack RadoColumbia BArizona State102-5
Jason HuangNorthwesternJohns Hopkins102-5
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AStanford10710
Arthur Delot-VilainYale AToronto A11010
Yashodev VyasMinnesota BChicago C129-5
Nicolas EdwardsMcGillChicago D12910
Jem BurchYale BFlorida12910
Joseph ChambersVirginiaWUSTL B12910
Marcus Forbes-GreenToronto BClaremont Colleges13210
Justin WytmarIllinoisMichigan13210
Mattias EhatammWaterlooColumbia A13910
Rasheeq AzadNorth Carolina BSouth Carolina14010
Gabrielle ClarkOttawaDuke14110
Isaac MammelMarylandIowa State14110
Joel MilesMinnesota AChicago B14110
Liam StarnesChicago CMinnesota B14610
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltHarvard14610
Aum MundheRutgersPenn14610
Karthik PrasadCornell BBerkeley B14710
Bryan UgazArizona StateColumbia B14710
Shahar SchwartzBerkeley AGeorgia Tech14710
Sinecio MoralesJohns HopkinsNorthwestern14710
Cory SmithKentuckyTruman State14710
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYUBrown14710