An old Scottish dictionary noted that 'glamour' refers metaphorically to 'female fascination.' And it is etymological curiosity that the word derives from 'grammar.' That word in the middle ages, described any scholarship, but particularly occult learning: the ability to becharm, to reveal objects and lives as 'totally different from the reality' of outward appearances.

Benjamin Moser, from the introduction of The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector

"'Do you renounce the glamour of evil' Catholic communicants are asked at Easter, 'and refuse to be mastered by sin?' The question preserves a conflation, now rare, of glamour and sorcery: glamour was a quality that confounds, shifts, shapes, invests a thing with a mysterious aura.."