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Witch-doctor: Encyclopedia - Witch doctor

A witch doctor often refers to healers that believe that maladies are caused by magic and are therefore best cured by it, as opposed to science or developed medicine. The term witch doctor is generally used with negative connotations, as implying that the people who the witch doctor serves are primitive and credulous. The term does not, as is popularly believed, mean 'a doctor who uses witchcraft to cure'. It means a person who treats maladies caused by witchcraft. The term was originally used to signify the cunning folk, practitioners of folk magic who sold their services to ward off w ...

Witch-doctor: Magic Shamanism Dictionary on witch doctor

African shaman

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Witch-doctor: New Age Spiritual Dictionary on Witch-doctor

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A practitioner skilled in magical arts and occultism

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Witch-doctor: Encyclopedia - White witch

White witch or good witch are qualifying terms in English used to distinguish those helpful witches who do not use magic to harm others from normal witches. It can refer to either fictional characters with such characteristics or to actual practitioners of folk magic called cunning folk or witch doctors; individuals who charged money for removing the supposed effects of witchcraft. Sir Walter Scott spoke of such a person in his novel Kenilworth (1821): You must know that some two or three years pas ...

Witch-doctor: Encyclopedia - Witches' mark

A witches' mark, also known as a Devil's mark or a witches' teat, was a supposed mark on the body indicating (to those participating in witchhunts) that an individual was a witch. Witches' marks were commonly believed to include moles, scars, birthmarks or supernumerary nipples. Witches' marks could also be spots on the body which could not be penetrated or would not bleed. Individuals suspected of being witches were often carefully scrutinized over their entire bodies for evidence of witches' marks, which ...

Witch-doctor: Encyclopedia - Witch smeller

Witch smellers (isinyanga or abangoma), almost always women, were important and powerful people amongst the Zulu and other Bantu tribes of Southern Africa, responsible for rooting out evil witches in the tribe, and sometimes responsible for considerable bloodshed themselves. If it was determined that some misfortune which had befallen the tribe had been caused by a witch, the chief summoned his people to a great meeting, in which they all sat in a circle, sometimes for four or five days. The ...

Witch-doctor: Encyclopedia - Witch trial

} The term witch trial generally refers a legal action taken during a period in European history from around 1450 to the mid-18th century, during which it was common for accusations of malicious, harmful, and Satanic witchcraft to be taken seriously, often resulting in loss of reputation, imprisonment, torture, and execution of the accused in Europe and to a lesser extent the European colonies. Scholarly estimates of the numbers of people executed for witchcraft during this period range around 40,000, with high estimates reachi ...

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Witch trial - History

Witch-doctor: Encyclopedia - Witch-hazel

Hamamelis japonica Hamamelis mollis Hamamelis vernalis Hamamelis virginiana Witch-hazel is the common name for a genus of shrubs Hamamelis in the family Hamamelidaceae, with four species, two in North America (H. virginiana and H. vernalis), and one each in Japan (H. japonica) and China (H. mollis). The Persian Ironwood, a closely related tree formerly treated as Hamamelis persica, is now given a genus of its own, as Parrotia persica, ...

Witch-doctor: Encyclopedia - Witches Discworld

A major subset of the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett involve the witches of Lancre. They are closely based on witches in British folklore, combined with modern Wicca and a slightly tongue-in-cheek reinterpretation of the Triple Goddess. Witch magic is very different from the wizard magic taught in the Unseen University, and consists largely of finding the right lever that makes everything else work. Witches rarely do any magic, in fact, relying more on common sense, hard work, and a peculiar brand of psychology know ...

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Witches Discworld - The Lancre Coven

Witches Discworld - Other Media

Witch-doctor: Encyclopedia - Witch of Endor

In the Hebrew Bible, the Witch of Endor of the First book of Samuel, chapter 28:4–25, was a witch, a woman "who possesses a talisman", through which she called up the ghost of the recently deceased prophet Samuel, at the demand of King Saul of Israel. After Samuel's death and burial with due mourning ceremonies in Ramah, Saul had driven all necromancers and magicians from Israel. Then, in a bitter irony, Saul sought out the witch, anonymously and in disguise, only after he received no answer from God from dreams, prophets or the Uri ...

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Witch of Endor - Interpretations

Witch-doctor: Encyclopedia - Witch Hazel astringent

Witch Hazel is an astringent produced from the leaves and bark of the North American shrub Witch-hazel. Witch Hazel is mainly used externally on sores, bruises and swelling. The main constituents of the extract include tannin, gallic acid, catechins, proanthocyanins, flavonoids (kaempferol, quercitin), essential oil (carvacrol, eugenol, hexaenol), choline, saponins, and bitters. Distilled Witch Hazel so ...

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Witch Hazel astringent - Uses of Witch hazel

Witch-doctor: Encyclopedia - Witches in modern culture

Witches in modern culture Today, few people believe in witches that can curse enemies, change shapes, or fly. However, since the emergence of the witchcraft-inspired religion of Wicca in the 1940s a growing number of people have called themselves witches. While most of western culture continues to assign negative connotations to the word, Wiccans do not consider it a derogatory term, nor do they associate it with Satanism. In fact, many Wiccans wi ...

Witch-doctor: Encyclopedia - Witch ball

A witch ball is a hollow sphere of plain or striated glass hung in cottage windows in the 18th century to ward off evil spirits, but later often posted on top of a vase or suspended by a cord (as from the mantelpiece or rafters) for a decorative effect. It may sometimes measure as large as 7 inches (18 cm) in diameter. The witch ball is traditionally, but not always, green in color. Sometimes the balls are made of wood, grass, or twigs instead of glass. The modern Christmas ornament ball is descended from the witch ball. According to an ancient tale, the ornament was originally placed on the tree to dispel a visito ...

Witch-doctor: Encyclopedia - Witches' Water

The Witches' Water is a theme park at the middle station of the cable car at Söll in Tyrol, Austria. The central part is a water park consisting of ponds and rivulets where children can play a variety of water games. It extends over an area of about 500 meters and is complemented by various alpine restaurants, playgrounds and a petting zoo. There are some themed trails in the surrounding area, for instance a witches' trail tracing past legends; a panoramic trail in front of the Tyrolese limestone alps; or a mile's barefoot hik ...

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Witches' Water - External link

Witch-doctor: Encyclopedia - White Witch

The White Witch is the chief villain of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first published book in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. (The sixth published book was a prequel, and in some modern editions is called the "first" book of the series.) The White Witch, whose real name is Jadis, is the tyrant who has usurped power over the land of Narnia. She magically forced Narnia into a never-ending winter during her reign, which at the beginning of the book had lasted for 100 years (indeed, an alternative title for t ...

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Witch-doctor: Encyclopedia - Witch-hunt

A witch-hunt was traditionally a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, which could lead to a witchcraft trial involving the accused person. Today such events are recognised as a type of moral panic. Witchhunts still occur in the modern era, in the sense that ignorant or uneducated people, isolated peoples, or people living a traditional lifestyle may persecute people that they believe are witches. The term is now widely used in a modern sense to refer to any search for a perceived or hidden enemy, with the same connotations of ...

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Witch-hunt - Early modern Europe

Witch-hunt - Modern witchhunts

Witch-hunt - Religious deprogramming

Witch-hunt - Day care sex abuse

Witch-doctor: Encyclopedia - Witch Hunter Robin

Witch Hunter Robin is a Japanese animation series created by Sunrise, who also created Cowboy Bebop and Mobile Suit Gundam. It is a darkly serious crime drama that follows the STN-J, the Japanese branch of a secretive global organization, SOLOMON, that fights the harmful use of witchcraft. Being a witch is a genetic trait, and the STN-J maintains a database of everyone with the trait and is empowered to eliminate or arrest them should their powers "awaken." Witches have a wide variety of abilities, though t ...

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Witch-doctor: Encyclopedia - The Blair Witch Project

The Blair Witch Project is a low budget 1999 American horror film. It tells the fictional story of three young film students who get lost in the woods while filming a documentary about the eponymous local legend. After being stalked for several days by an unseen antagonist and prevented from sleeping, they mysteriously disappear. Neither they nor their bodies are ever found, although their film, video and sound equipment is recovered. The film is presented as a documentary pieced together from film the students shot before thei ...

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Witch-doctor: Encyclopedia - B*Witched

B*Witched were a late 1990s girl group from Ireland who were wildly popular in Europe, but only enjoyed mild success in the United States. They were unique for their ability to mix Irish folk music with mainstream pop. B*Witched - Overview. Their members were twin sisters Edele and Keavy Lynch, Sinéad O'Carroll, and Lindsay Armaou. Shane Lynch, Edele and Keavy's brother and a member of Boyzone, helped in finding them a manager who got them signed to Glowworm Records, a subsidiary of Epic Records.

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Witch-doctor: Encyclopedia - Aradia or the Gospel of the Witches

Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches is an 1899 book by Charles Godfrey Leland. It is one of the foundational texts of Wicca and Wicca-based Neo-paganism. The book is an attempt to portray the beliefs and rituals of an underground religious witchcraft tradition in Tuscany that had survived until Leland's claimed discovery of its existence in the 1890s. The veracity of this claim has been disputed by scholars. A critical edition of the book was released in 1999, the book's hundred-year anniversary, edited by Mario ...