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Witch

noun

A female sorcerer or magician. Synonym: enchantress.

A being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil.

A believer in Wicca. Synonym: Wiccan.

An ugly evil-looking old woman. Synonyms: beldam, beldame, crone, hag.

verb

(past & past part. witched; pres. part. witching)

Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something. Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, glamour, hex, jinx.

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"Witch" Quotes from Famous Books

... own land! This place must be bewitched, I think. There is a witch upon the moors, I know, who can take almost any shape; but—but they say she is three hundred years of ...

— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore

... whispering of the strange things that had been found in old Mrs. Gibbon's cottage, obscene figures, and unknown contrivances. She was a witch, he said, and ...

— The Hill of Dreams • Arthur Machen

... firelight. The effect was picturesque indeed. The furniture and the polished wainscoting glinted and shone, and the shadows of the big brass andirons were thrown upon the ceiling, where they performed a witch's dance, the intricacy of ...

— Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches • Joel Chandler Harris

... gradual beauty and significance Emerge! And did you hear That little twitter-and-cheep, Breaking inordinately loud and clear On this still, spectral, exquisite atmosphere? 'Tis a first nest at matins! And behold A rakehell cat—how furtive and acold! A spent witch homing from some infamous dance - Obscene, quick-trotting, see her tip and fade Through shadowy railings into a pit of shade! And now! a little wind and shy, The smell of ships (that earnest of romance), A sense of space and water, and thereby A lamplit bridge ...

— Poems by William Ernest Henley • William Ernest Henley

... them—crystal gazers, mediums, fortune tellers, and the rest. They are reaping a rare harvest for the moment. We punish the humbler rogues, but we don't punish the fools who go to see them. If I had my way, the man or woman who visited the modern witch or wizard should get six months in the second division. Fools should be punished oftener for their folly. But education will sweep these things into the limbo of man's ignorance and mental infancy. Ghosts cannot stand ...

— The Grey Room • Eden Phillpotts

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