Editing Jinx (section)

== Etymology ==
The ''Online Etymology Dictionary'' states that "jynx", meaning a charm or spell, was in usage in English as early as the 1690s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=jynx|title=jynx – Search Online Etymology Dictionary|website=etymonline.com|access-date=1 November 2017}}</ref> The same source states that "jinx", with that specific spelling, is first attested in [[American English]] in 1911. Jynx/jinx is traced to the 17th-century word ''jyng'', meaning "a spell", and ultimately to the Latin word ''iynx'', also spelled ''jynx'', as 'j' and 'i' are the same letter in Latin.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=jinx&searchmode=none |title=Online Etymology Dictionary: Jinx |publisher=Etymonline |access-date=2010-10-11}}</ref> The Latin ''iynx'' came from the Greek name of the [[wryneck]] bird, ''iunx'', associated with sorcery; not only was the bird used in the casting of spells and in [[divination]], but the Ancient Romans and Greeks traced the bird's mythological origins to a sorceress named [[Iynx]], who was transformed into this bird to punish her for a spell cast on the god [[Zeus]].