To make the spell more powerful, nail parings, pubic hair, menstrual blood, urine, and perspiration are kneaded into the soft mixture.

Crisp broken flakes like transparent nail parings fell out.

For weeks he saved his nail parings in a matchbox and then, using a stone mortar and pestle, ground them into a crunchy powder that he incorporated into a cake.

He had always been careful about hair clippings and nail parings, making sure to burn them.

Yes - that's why he collected your nail parings.

Once, he asked Breaca for hair plucked from the sides of her head where it would be braided for battle, and another time for her nail parings.

It was also a kind of reliquary, incorporating fragments of real bodies: the nail parings were from Ms. González and her girlfriend.

I told her to get a taxi and send the nail parings and the hair in their sterile phials to my office at once.

The explosion at the beginning had been a bomb made by the convicts from nail parings or playing cards or who knows what?

Did they find nail parings in her room, I wonder?