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witch

A woman who does witchcraft (magic) or has magical powers. Glenda the Good was a powerful witch in The Wizard of Oz. A person of either sex (man or woman) who does witchcraft. A Wiccan. I think she became a witch last year. A person who practices black (evil) magic. Old books talk about witches selling their souls to the Devil. or A female demon or monster that looks like an old woman and often does harmful things to other people. The witch tried to eat Hansel and Gretel. The witch in the movie had green skin. A woman who is difficult to get allow with, or a bad woman. I hate my boss, she's a real witch.

witch

(= enchantress) a female sorcerer or magician a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil (= Wiccan) a believer in Wicca (= hag) an ugly evil-looking old woman (= hex) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

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The wicked witch cast a spell on the man and turned him into a bug.
Burn the witch!
The witch laid a curse on the unfortunate little girl.
The strange-looking woman was thought to be a witch.
Between ourselves, the fat ugly witch is on a diet.
The witch cursed the poor little girl.
She is a true witch!
Outside it's cold as a witch's tit.
She's a nasty witch.
I am not a witch.
The witch hunt has begun.
Tom is a witch doctor.
Mary confessed to being a witch.
She's a powerful witch.
The witch is stirring her cauldron.
A witch once gave Christopher Columbus an evil eye. and never got it back.
I give up. What do an Irish priest and Congolese witch doctor have in common?
She's a real witch!
Standing over the cauldron, the witch stirred a repulsive stew made of mud, piss, and human body parts.

Movie subtitles

There were witnesses. Ask Wally Seymour, even that witch, Speigleman saw me.
Sofren had heard that Dame Margarete might be a witch. But he did not feel it would do him any harm just to enter the house.
Let us look into the history of mysticism and try to explain the mysterious chapter known as the Witch.
The floating figure is a devil coming to get the witch by lifting her up into the air.
In this image a witch is milking an ax handle.
In the following image a witch has bewitched a man's shoe.
In this old naive drawing, a sorcerer and a witch are casting spells, setting a village on fire.
It was a general belief that the witch was naked when, at night, during the so-called Witch Sabbath, she danced with the devils.
The French doctors Bourneville and Teinturier gave me the following pictures of the Witch Sabbath a secret satanic rite to which thousands of women asserted their participation.
These scenes are often found on famous Witch Sabbath pictures from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
THE WITCH Chapter 4.
THE WITCH Chapter 5.
Each witch gives ten others away.
THE WITCH Chapter 3.
If you oppose the capture of a witch, you must be a witch yourself.
The witch madness, like a spiritual plague, ravages wherever these judges go.
So you're galloping through the forest looking for me, 'cause I was stolen by the evil witch, and you finally find me in the enchanted woods.
THE WITCH Chapter 2.

News and current affairs

MacKay gave examples, over the centuries, of social epidemics involving belief in alchemists, prophets of Judgment Day, fortune tellers, astrologers, physicians employing magnets, witch hunters, and crusaders.
The witch-hunt underway - with politicians, regulators, and even the White House seeking to save their political skins - is, indeed, essential.
The ritual witch-hunt now underway may be the only way for bosses to regain their bearings.
A witch hunt is under way against opposition politicians.
Football hooliganism and nationalism create a witch's brew that, until lately, has rarely been sipped in Asia.
But, while people should certainly be punished for acts of violence, going after people purely for what they think - or, worse, what we think they think - has the air of a witch-hunt.
The hearings, reminiscent of Joe McCarthy's witch hunts in 1950's America, humiliated the SLD and, in large part, compromised the entire post-1989 period.
The stock exchange boom of the early 1870's was followed by collapse in 1873 and a witch-hunt for those responsible.
There were no witch-hunts, nor was there summary justice.
We stood before a stark alternative: either destroy that social peace by anticommunist witch-hunts or reform the old regime and move ahead to a new era of national peace and economic prosperity.

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