User blog comment:Njalm2/Nanja's Grimoire: Abjuration/@comment-18812574-20160108152836/@comment-3403804-20160110131502

To answer your question, yes, Amaterasu's Benediction is a powerful Evocation enwoven within a powerful Abjuration Spell. And yes, it's possible to that in other ways as well, that being said, the Coven are more likely to use flat out Enchantment to psychologically torture their victims into insanity and beyond, destroying every notion of comprehensible thought until they've uncovered every little secret of the victim.