From the evil of sorceresses who blow incantations on knots,
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : and from the evil of malignant witchcraft,
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : and from the evil of the women-blowers, sorceresses who blow, on knots, which they knot into strings, blowing into them [certain] words, but without spittle; however, al-zamakhsharī says, ‘with this [spittle]’ — [sorceresses] such as the daughters of the said labīd —