Sentence:  Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the cunning man's medical dealings was his readiness to diagnose a supernatural cause for the patient's malady by saying that he was haunted by an evil spirit, a ghost, or ‘fairy', or that he had been ‘overlooked', ‘<WSD>forspoken</WSD>', or, in plainer language, bewitched. Thus if any inhabitant of mid-sixteenth-century Maidstone suspected that he had been <WSD>forspoken</WSD>, he would go off for advice to one Kiterell, a sorcerer who lived at Bethersden, and specialised in such things: ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To bewitch, to charm.