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Witch:
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Witch: Practitioner of Witchcraft.
(See also:
Witch , Magic,
Shamanism,
Paganism, Wicca)
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The Mayfair Witches: Encyclopedia Ii - The Mayfair Witches - The Mayfair Witches
The Mayfair Witches - The Family History.
The origin of the Mayfair Witches saga goes back to Suzanne Mayfair, a simpleton and an ances...
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The Mayfair Witches: Encyclopedia Ii - The Mayfair Witches - The Designee
The Designee of the Mayfair family has always been a daughter of the current Designee, regardless of whether or not she is powerful. It s...
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Witches' Mark: 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 w...
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White Witch: 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 f...
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Witch Ball: 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 late...
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Witch Smeller: Encyclopedia - Witch Smeller
Witch smellers (isinyanga or abangoma), almost always women, were important and powerful people amongst the Zulu and other Bantu tribes o...
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Witch Trial: Encyclopedia - Witch Trial
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The term witch trial generally refers a legal action taken during a period in European history from around 1450 to the mid-18th century...
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Witch-hazel: Encyclopedia - Witch-hazel
Hamamelis japonica
Hamamelis mollis
Hamamelis vernalis
Hamamelis virginiana
Witch-hazel is the common name for a genus of shrubs Hamameli...
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Witches Discworld: 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 fol...
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Witch Of Endor: 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", ...
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Witch Hazel Astringent: 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 extern...
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Witches In Modern Culture: 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 emergenc...
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Witches' Water: 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 co...
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White Witch: 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 Nar...
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Witch-hunt: 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 accus...
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Witch Hunter Robin: 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 darkl...
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The Blair Witch Project: 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...
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B*witched: 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...
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Aradia Or The Gospel Of The Witches: 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-ba...
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Catalan Mythology About Witches: Encyclopedia - Catalan Mythology About Witches
In Catalan popular culture, there are a large number of myths and legends about witches (Catalan "bruixes"). In the popular imagination, ...
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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 s...
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The Witches: Encyclopedia Ii - The Witches - Plot
"One child a week equals fifty-two a year, squash them and squiggle them and make them disappear." That is the motto of all witches in Da...
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Witch:
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witch A person who bends energy and shapes consciousness
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Body
Mind and Soul)
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The Witches: Encyclopedia Ii - The Witches - Film Version
(See The Witches (film))
The 1990 film softens and simplifies the tale somewhat, names the child Luke and adds an epilogue in which he is...
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Witches Cradle:
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WITCHES CRADLE: A method of torturing Witches during the Renaissance and Middle Ages by binding the Witch in a garment or sack and sus...
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Witch:
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Witch:
Someone who practices witchcraft.
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Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dic...
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Witch:
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Witch: A member of the Wicca religion. A practitioner of witchcraft. There are many types and traditions of witches. A witch is not ne...
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Witches Discworld: Encyclopedia Ii - Witches Discworld - Other Witches
Other witches featured in the books include:
Witches Discworld - Ammeline 'Goodie' Hamstring.
Ammeline Hamstring, also known as 'Goodie...
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Witch's Casket: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch's Casket - Witch's Casket
Witch's Casket was an informal children’s game of the Georgian era. It was played with catgut, often from a discarded harp or violin st...
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Witches Ladder:
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WITCHES LADDER: A length of cord that has been knotted to hold feathers, shells, stones or other objects. Used primarily as a form of ...
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Witches Discworld: Encyclopedia Ii - Witches Discworld - Other Witches
Other witches featured in the books include:
Witches Discworld - Ammeline 'Goodie' Hamstring.
Ammeline Hamstring, also known as 'Goodie...
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Witch Trial: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch Trial - History
Witch trial - Early Trials.
Though formal witch trials are distinct to Europe and the Americas during a specific historical period, the...
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Witch Trial: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch Trial - Proceedings
Witch trial - Authorities.
Both civil ecclesiastical authorities participated in witch trials. Trials occurred in Roman Catholic and Pr...
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Witches Foot:
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WITCHES FOOT: Also Goblin's Cross. This term originally assigned to the pentagram (Koch, Dover Press 1930) which also showed an ...
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The Mayfair Witches: Encyclopedia Ii - The Mayfair Witches - The Mayfair Legacy
The Mayfair Legacy is a complex thing, full of legal jargon and twists and turns that not even the most crooked lawyer could get around. ...
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Witches 5: Encyclopedia Ii - Witches 5 - Tellu
The third member of the Witches 5, she is named for the mineral tellurite. Tellu is voiced by Chieko Honda in Japanese, Kirsten Bishop in...
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Witches 5: Encyclopedia Ii - Witches 5 - Viluy
Named Viruit in English. Voiced by Susan Aceron in the dub. She is the 4th member of the Witches 5 and a notorious flirt with the profess...
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Witch:
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Witch A member of the Wicca religion. A practitioner of witchcraft. There are many types and traditions of witches. A witch is not nec...
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Witches 5: Encyclopedia Ii - Witches 5 - Eudial
Eudial is the first and possibly the leader of the Witches 5. Eudialyte is her namesake. Seiyuu Maria Kawamura provides her voice for the...
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Witches 5: Encyclopedia Ii - Witches 5 - Mimete
Mimete is the second of the group. She is named after the mineral mimetite. Voice work for the character is provided by seiyuu Mika Kanai...
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Witches Discworld: Encyclopedia Ii - Witches Discworld - The Lancre Coven
The Lancre Coven is, as mentioned above, the main group of witches in the Discworld novels, and the ones featured in the novels referred ...
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Witch Hunters: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch Hunters - Role
Although primarily concerned with supervising the Ecclesiarchy and the Imperial Cult, the Ordo Hereticus has expanded its jurisdiction to...
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Scarlet Witch: Encyclopedia Ii - Scarlet Witch - History
Scarlet Witch - Birth.
The Scarlet Witch is the twin sister of Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff); the twins are the children of Magneto and...
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Witches Discworld: Encyclopedia Ii - Witches Discworld - The Lancre Coven
The Lancre Coven is, as mentioned above, the main group of witches in the Discworld novels, and the ones featured in the novels referred ...
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Witch's Ball, Witch Ball:
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mass of dried entwined herbs blown about by the wind
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Pagan Dictionar...
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Witches Discworld: Encyclopedia Ii - Witches Discworld - Other Media
In the 1995 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Wyrd Sisters the witches were:
Granny Weatherwax - Sheila Hancock
Nanny Ogg - Lynda Baron
Magrat G...
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Witch Bottles:
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WITCH BOTTLES: Also known as Bellarmines or Greybeards. Squat, narrow necked stoneware bottles depicting a Green-Man type figure ( in ...
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Witching Hour: Encyclopedia Ii - Witching Hour - History
The earliest known use of the exact phrasing "the witching hour" is from 1835, in the last line of a short story by Washington Irving: "T...
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B*witched: Encyclopedia Ii - 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 ...
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Witches Discworld: Encyclopedia Ii - Witches Discworld - Other Media
In the 1995 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Wyrd Sisters the witches were:
Granny Weatherwax - Sheila Hancock
Nanny Ogg - Lynda Baron
Magrat G...
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Witching Hour: Encyclopedia Ii - Witching Hour - Witching Hour In Popular Culture
Witching Hour is an album released in 2005 by Ladytron, and Eronel 7" Witching Hour is the name of an album released by Saetia in 2000
Wi...
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Witch Trial: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch Trial - Number Of Executions
As mentioned earlier, estimates of the number of men, women, and children executed for participating in witchcraft vary wildly depending ...
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Witch Hunters: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch Hunters - Foundation
The Ordo Hereticus was founded much later than the Ordo Xenos and Ordo Malleus, created after the Age of Apostasy which occurred during t...
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Witch:
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Witch: Anyone who calls themself a “witch” or is called such by others; an utterly useless term without a qualifying adjec...
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Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Africa
In many African societies the fear of witches drives periodic witchhunts during which specialist witch finders identify suspects, even to...
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Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Sociology
Sociology has attributed the occurrence of witchhunts to the human necessity to blame problems on someone. For example, Europe during the...
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White Witch: Encyclopedia Ii - White Witch - Characteristics
The White Witch was very powerful in her own world, Charn, but found her magic largely useless in other worlds. She eventually strengthen...
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Witch's Rune:
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WITCH'S RUNE: this is a poem chanted to raise power.
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WITCH'S RUNE , Witchcraft, Wicca, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary...
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Witches Discworld: Encyclopedia Ii - Witches Discworld - Tiffany Aching
A very young witch (11 at her last appearance), who hails from the chalk downland Rimward of the Ramtops. Her grandmother, Sarah Aching, ...
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Scarlet Witch: Encyclopedia Ii - Scarlet Witch - Other Versions Of The Scarlet Witch
Scarlet Witch - X-Men Evolution.
In this version, she is addressed as Wanda and is referred to as "Scarlet Witch" only once. Committed ...
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Witch:
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WITCH: 1) Sometimes used name of a follower of Wicca. 2) Ancient, European practitioner of folk magick, especially that of herb and ...
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Witches Discworld: Encyclopedia Ii - Witches Discworld - Tiffany Aching
A very young witch (11 at her last appearance), who hails from the chalk downland Rimward of the Ramtops. Her grandmother, Sarah Aching, ...
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White Witch:
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witch on the right-hand path
(See also:
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Shamanism,
Pagan Dictionary)
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Catalan Mythology About Witches: Encyclopedia Ii - Catalan Mythology About Witches - The Presence Of Witches
It was said that whispering of fallen leaves blown about a rooftop was the sound of witches criticizing the behavior of the family of the...
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Witch Hunters: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch Hunters - The Adeptus Sororitas
The Adeptus Sororitas, also known as the Sisterhood or the Daughters of the Emperor, are a vast organisation of nuns devoted to the worsh...
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Witch: Paganism Pagan Dictionary On Witch
WITCH: A practitioner of folk magick, particularly that kind relating to herbs, stones, colors, wells, rivers, etc. It is used by some...
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Witch Doctor:
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African shaman
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witch doctor , Magic,
Shamanism,
Pagan Dictionary)
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Kitchen Witch:
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witch who uses mainly practical magic centering on the home, hearth, and family
(See also:
kitchen witch , Magic,
Shamanism...
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Salem Witch Trials: Encyclopedia Ii - Salem Witch Trials - The Ending
The witch trials ended in January 1693, although people already jailed for witchcraft were not all released until the next spring. The ro...
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Salem Witch Trials: Encyclopedia Ii - Salem Witch Trials - Participants
Salem witch trials - Clerical participants and commentators.
The Rev. Cotton Mather
The Rev. Samuel Parris
The Rev. Increase Mather
Th...
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Son Of A Witch: Encyclopedia Ii - Son Of A Witch - Reasons For Writing
In a Fwomp interview, Gregory Maguire gave his reasons for writing Son of a Witch.
"I was troubled by some letters I got from young girls...
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Witch Hunter Robin: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch Hunter Robin - Plot
The show begins with the recruitment of Robin Sena as a replacement for an STN-J member who was lost in action. Robin is a witch who was ...
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Witch Hunter Robin: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch Hunter Robin - Episodes
Witch Hunter Robin debuted on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim on February 16, 2004. The series also began airing on YTV on September 10, 200...
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Salem Witch Trials: Encyclopedia Ii - Salem Witch Trials - Background
In the town of Salem in 1692, eight young townswomen fell victim to "fits, outbreaks of obscene babbling, and wild partying in the local ...
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The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe: Encyclopedia Ii - The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe - Synopsis
Four children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, are evacuated from London during World War II, and settled with an elderly scienti...
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Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Early Modern Europe
For several centuries, dominantly Christian societies believed that Satan was acting through human and animal servants. These beliefs can...
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Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - The Burning Times
"The Burning Times" is an English term referring to the time of the Great European Witchhunts (1450-1750). Its first recorded use is by G...
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Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Modern Usage
A witchhunt in modern terminology refers to the act of seeking and persecuting any perceived enemy, particularly when the search is condu...
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Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Modern Witchhunts
Witch-hunt - Religious deprogramming.
Hundreds of members of the Unification Church who were caught and harangued by deprogrammers comp...
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Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Modern Usage
A witchhunt in modern terminology refers to the act of seeking and persecuting any perceived enemy, particularly when the search is condu...
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Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Early Modern Europe
For several centuries, dominantly Christian societies believed that Satan was acting through human and animal servants. These beliefs ca...
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Sabrina The Teenage Witch: Encyclopedia Ii - Sabrina The Teenage Witch - History
Sabrina first appeared in comics, in the October 1962 issue of Archie's Madhouse #22, published by Archie Comics. Sabrina was created by ...
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Witch Hunter Robin: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch Hunter Robin - Analysis
In the story, Robin is a "craft user", i.e. a secret trainee of The Catholic Church in Italy that uses her craft (fire) to hunt down witc...
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The Blair Witch Project: Encyclopedia Ii - The Blair Witch Project - Story
The premise of the first film is that three students have gone missing after setting out to make a documentary about the Blair Witch, pop...
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Witch's Bottle:
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sealed bottle placed in the house or buried on the property for protection.
(See also:
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Shamanism,
P...
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Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - The Burning Times
"The Burning Times" is an English term that was invented by Mary Daly and first used in her book, Gyn/Ecology: The Meta-Ethics of Radical...
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Witch War:
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WITCH WAR A dispute between coven leaders, very often silly things with episodes of "I'm gonna ward you right off this plane.&quo...
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I Married A Witch: Encyclopedia Ii - I Married A Witch - Plot
Two witches, Jennifer and her father Daniel, are burned by the Puritan Jonathan Wooley. Wooley's entire family is cursed, and the sons wi...
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Water Witching:
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Water Witching: Rhabdomancy when done for finding water.
(See also:
Water Witching , Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)
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Kitchen Witch:
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KITCHEN WITCH - someone who takes a Earth & home approach to the mystical & who takes tools from the home & employs them f...
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Witch's Ladder:
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type of knot magic in which charms are knotted or braided, with specific magical intention, into cords, to make a powerful talisman ...
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Witch Queen:
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high priestess whose coven has hived off two or more new covens
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Witch Queen , Magic,
Shamanism,
Pagan Dictionary...
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Dream Interpretation Witch: Dream Interpretation
Dictionary - Witch
Witch To dream of witches, denotes that you, with others, will seek adventures which will afford hilarious enjoyment, but it ...
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Hereditary Witch:
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Hereditary Witch A person who descends from a line of witches and has learned the Craft from a member of this descent.
(See
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Dictionary - Witch
Witch 1. If the dreamer is a woman, dreaming of a witch could represent her own senex, or that part of her psyche that is older...
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Witch To dream of witches, denotes that you, with others, will seek adventures which will afford hilarious enjoyment, but it ...
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Wicked Witch Of The East: Encyclopedia Ii - Wicked Witch Of The East - The 1939 Movie
In the extremely popular 1939 movie, The Wizard of Oz, The Wicked Witch of the East is not verifiably seen except for her stockinged feet...
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Wicked Witch Of The West: Encyclopedia Ii - Wicked Witch Of The West - The 1939 Movie
In the classic movie The Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch, played by actress Margaret Hamilton, was tall, green-skinned, and dressed entire...
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Witch: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Children And Dreams - The Witch
Witch : Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Children and Dreams - The Witch
The Witch Many youngsters dream of a wicked witch ...
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