Magic cancellation, or, shortly, MC, is a property of some pieces of armor which protects the player from certain non-damage effects caused by a monster attacking and touching the player with some part of its body. Examples include poison from killer bee stings, lycanthropy caused by werejackal bites, and the green slime's sliming attacks. Such attacks are in this article referred to as special melee attacks. A precise list of the special melee attacks that magic cancellation protects against is provided in the section below.