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Sentence Examples The country's National Witches Association claims it discriminates against white witches and should only apply to black magic. As far as I can tell, the amulet was taken by force from the occult masters by the white witches and placed under a powerful blood seal. Meanwhile, exit stage left in a black stretch limousine, Kevin Carlyon, one of Britain's highest-ranking white witches. Ask them about water witches, or diviners, and find out if they have heard about them. I have no quarrel with your terminology except that it has connotations of teenage American witches in my mind. Every race has magical and non magical people, these could be wizards, witches, warlocks, sorcerers, or sorceresses. Germans associate witches and devils with Walpurgisnacht, April 30th, but Walpurgis was an English nun. In the Harz mountains the night of the witches, the Walpurgisnacht, is a big event. On the first day of spring in 1996, our local newspaper ran an article about a local coven of witches. Welles plays the head of a witches coven, who has his heart set on raising his son from the dead. The female form of the word was wicce, from which we get our witch, though at one time men could be witches, too. It was a massive castle made of stone and large enough to house almost 20 separate covens, nearly 1,000 witches! It is understood that a coven of witches was held at Rathcroghan Caves on the recent Halloween night. He says that some witches put a curse on his youngest daughter, causing her to have bad headaches. Willow was spending time with the coven of witches in Devon, trying to put her life back together. He travels to a remote island where he uncovers a coven of witches engaged in outdoor orgies and human sacrifice. All Hallows Eve is just around the corner, where ghouls, goblins, witches and vampires are ready to come out. Again, what is the inspiration behind characters such as fairies, elves, gnomes, and witches? Masking the witches also moves them from a simplistic medieval notion of devilry and further towards symbolism. She's written six paranormal romances about love complicated by grimalkins, witches, Druids, mermaids, and even mad scientists. Show More Sentences A debate ensued which led to the rather gruesome killing of the witches of the medieval period. I was just about to rid myself of the coven of witches and now they've relaxed themselves back into their seats. Hector, being taken ill, consulted on his case some of the witches or soothsayers, to whom this family appears to have been partial. I think the world needs the witches, the shamans, the Wiccans, the Druids and the ritual magicians. Do you believe that the world of sorcerers, witches, and necromancers is going the way of the ancient Greeks and Egyptians? They believed vampires to be the undead corpses of witches, suicides and folk who had been excommunicated by the Church. Many a Scots family planted mountain ash, a tree with brilliant red-orange berries, at its door to keep the witches and fairies away. Spiteful witches, hungry ghosts, and angry spirits are thought to inflict illness and misfortune. In Ireland, in particular, misfortune was frequently blamed on fairies as well as witches. Pranks and mischief began to be played out to represent the mischievous behaviour attributed to witches and the fairies. She also reported that the malefic cleric had confessed bewitching other people and recruiting a teenager into the ranks of the witches. Afterwards, Jim tells stories to all the other slaves about how witches bewitched him that night. He employed a sensationalist rhetorical style to spice up the stories of his adolescent witches. It was often burned with juniper and thyme as a means of cleansing a room of witches and bad spirits. Priests, seers and prophets, witches and medicine men were in a strong position to inaugurate their own system of extraction. The others cackled like witches around a crystal ball, but it was Tai who had the second sight here. Weird warlocks and witches are dancing to the sound of the bagpipes, played by Old Nick, the devil. That's because fungal diseases like witches broom and frosty pod rot are devastating cacao crops in Central and South America. Persecuting witches or merely criticizing nonbelievers can unite the Faithful. He discusses learnedly the question whether the witches were really carried through the air corporeally or not. Show More Sentences We've just reached the summit of Pendle Hill in Lancashire when the image of the three wizened witches from Macbeth skips across my mind's eye. At one point a panel of Harvard scientists was called in to observe a seance, and disbelievers called the girls harlots and witches. Casey Craig had been the beautiful Barbie doll that made every other girl look like hideous witches. Don't ever get a dog because some rotten neighbor will just come and take it away and then you'll have to go battle some witches to get him back. Wiccans and witches as well as magicians, generally do not like to be labelled in this manner. The Council of Magic, which governed and guided all good witches and warlocks, made this their ground zero. They think all Wiccans and witches are up to no good, worshiping the devil and defying God. He's here with the results of a special investigation into the world of goths, witches, and wiccans. Crowley's own voluminous writings, published and unpublished, contain no reference to a religion of pagan witches. You do not really need to have actual witches around to have very firm beliefs about the existence and powers of witches. In addition, not all practitioners of Wicca are witches, and not all witches are practitioners of Wicca. The Pagan Federation, an umbrella group which represents Druids, shamans, witches and high priestesses, is now receiving up to 1000 calls a week. But we think such a measure should be taken only against those who use black magic and not against good witches who use white magic. More and more studying witches and warlocks came out to practice their powers. Representatives of his religion burned and persecuted witches in years gone by. No more witches, wizards or warlocks lighted their fires with the flick of a finger. As they walked further inside the park, they saw some witches flying around with broomsticks and wizards chasing them high up in the sky. The eight warriors must battle witches, monsters, evil spirits, and vats of bubbling poison if they are to rescue the damsel in distress. However, for most of us, Halloween is the night for witches and broomsticks, fire and black cats. She would hold it, gripping the handle as her father had taught her, and pretend to fight off giant ogres or evil witches with magical powers. Show More Sentences Today it is the mysterious world of witches, wizards and warlocks which is capturing their imaginations. She was half Indian and she had told him many stories about witches and black magic. I wanted to be a princess in a mystical land that was filled with magic and fairies and evil witches. When Duncan starts moving forward and backward in time while psychic witches and warlocks control him, the show becomes ludicrous. Mankind was mandated not to mess around with the dead or witches or warlocks or demons. Pagan followers can go by the title of witches, Druids, heathens or shamans, and some adhere to the tradition of Wicca. She readily admitted to performing the black magic associated with witches. He accentuates this difference by costuming the lovers as a pre-Raphaelite hero and heroine in contrast to the male and female witches in modern grey business suits. In some regions, one often came across innocent women branded as witches and lynched by villagers who wanted to possess the land and property belonging to the victims. They all got together to talk about me, it was like a witches coven. Originally, witches were nasty old crones who made evil potions. Will witches, cults, and strange religions soon get taxpayers' dollars? Well, Bubba, it might have something to do with Parisians perfecting Gallic cool while we were busy slaughtering buffalo and burning witches at the stake. A host of witches, goblins, ghouls and monsters descended on Carlow town centre last week as the central library held its children's Halloween fancy dress show. It is no more a proper trial than ducking witches used to be. I've taken to wearing 5-spice beef around my neck and it really helps in warding off witches, as well as warlocks, wizards and basically anyone with an acute sense of smell. Speaking after the incident, Karin Attwood, a white witch and Rollright Stones Trustee, said witches she knew had placed a curse on the perpetrator. She hosted the get together with partner Tom Dimakopoulos, at their shop Charmed, to teach aspirant white witches how to develop their magic skills. They were witches and they practiced black magic in the woods. Wait a minute, there is no such thing as magic, or witches or wizards. Show More Sentences In England, glass-ball fishing floats are commonly used, as are witch balls, colored glass balls intended to be hung in homes to keep out witches. It's easier to believe that Macbeth meets three witches in the forest that goad him to regicide than it is to accept that Romeo and Juliet actually love one another. Last season gave us witches, disembodied spirits, shifters, shamans, and faeries, all vying for control of the story. It has been suggested by some authorities that the original witches sprang from a race of Mongol origin of which the Lapps are the sole surviving remnants. If you challenge the subjectivity of judgment, you are accused of absolutism, which is about as bad as believing in monarchism or the persecution of witches. Yet most people outside that little circle still believe in witches and ghosts and goblins, and are very pagan-minded. And we witches and warlocks must always have our athames with us. The story went that every year on April 30th the witches from all over Germany would fly on their brooms to meet and celebrate the witches' sabbath on the Brocken mountain. The witches generally represent some version of the Fates and make Macbeth believe that life is preordained. Why do witches and old women fascinate and bewitch children? If there were witches, who could blight your crops, make you sterile, and turn you into a newt just by an incantation or two, then of course we should hunt them. Scared talk of witches and sorcerers was not the attention Avalon needed. Prosecutions of black witches suspected of doing harm to other people were numerous enough. In the Nigerian state of Akwa Ibom about 15,000 children were branded as witches and most of them end up abandoned and abused on the streets. Some doctors at the time believed that supernatural forces such as witches, demons or possession caused mental disorders. These witches were reputed to use undomesticated toads as ingredients in their liniments and brews. Because of the Dominican Republic's proximity to Haiti, where voodooism is practiced, owls are treated like witches or as very bad news. In Early Modern European tradition, witches were stereotypically, though not exclusively, women. According to William Kamkwamba, witches and wizards are afraid of money, which they consider a rival evil. The persecution of witches began in 1563, and hundreds were executed, although there was nothing like the frenzy on the Continent. Show More Sentences The witches travel to Genua, where Granny's sister Lily is using mirror magic to direct people's lives. Because of this, there exist six witch camps in the country where women suspected of being witches can flee for safety. They told Paula that she'd only play witches or be a character actress because she had a hook nose. Parents discourage their children from interacting with people believed to be witches. Children may be accused of being witches, for example a young niece may be blamed for the illness of a relative. In contemporary times luciferian witches exist within traditional witchcraft. In addition to werewolves, fairies, witches and vampires, players can expect to see many more ghosts amidst the supernaturals in their town. As the devil uses witches, To be their cully for a space, That, when the time's expir'd, the drazels For ever may become his vassals. Wiccaphobia may be more of a problem for contemporary witches than for wiccaphobes themselves. Men may not too rashly believe the confessions of witches, nor yet the evidence against them. Many of our fellow countrymen and women think they are witches, wizards, seers, time travellers and water diviners. This world of wizards and witches, they're already ostracized, and then within themselves, they've formed a loathsome pecking order. When chasing a hare he and his pack of dogs unwittingly ran into a coven of witches, overturned their cauldron and disrupted their ceremony. The masque opens with an antimasque of witches, who exemplify on several levels Jonson's conception of a threatening feminine discursive power. The gathering of witches set a new World Record for the largest number of 'witches' assembled at one place. During this period, there were widespread claims that malevolent Satanic witches were operating as an organized threat to Christendom. There has also existed in popular belief the concept of white witches and white witchcraft, which is strictly benevolent. The folk magic used to identify or protect against malicious magic users is often indistinguishable from that used by the witches themselves. In the Cotswolds, witches were thought to take the shape of foxes to steal butter from their neighbours. By placing the Saint Andrew's cross on one of the fireplace posts or lintels, witches are prevented from entering through this opening. Show More Sentences James Caldwell's engraving, after Henry Fuseli, of Macbeth's encounter with the witches. Inversion of normative gender roles is most famously associated with the witches and with Lady Macbeth as she appears in the first act. He and Banquo meet the three witches, who make exactly the same prophecies as in Shakespeare's version. In Chronicles, a man named Donwald finds several of his family put to death by his king, King Duff, for dealing with witches. After the witches perform a mad dance and leave, Lennox enters and tells Macbeth that Macduff has fled to England. Macbeth, disturbed, visits the three witches once more and asks them to reveal the truth of their prophecies to him. A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. The urn in Witches seems to contain pieces of the human body, which the witches are seen consuming as a source of energy. Social beliefs labeled witches as supernatural beings capable of doing great harm, possessing the ability to fly, and as cannibalistic. Subsequent artwork exhibiting witches tended to consistently rely on cultural stereotypes about these women. The point was that a widespread belief in the conspiracy of witches and a witches' Sabbath with the devil deprived women of political influence. However, even at a later date, not all witches were assumed to be harmful practicers of the craft. In 820 the Bishop of Lyon and others repudiated the belief that witches could make bad weather, fly in the night, and change their shape. By night, she dons unusual robes, practices white magic and hosts a witches coven in her city centre flat. The emperor Charlemagne decreed that the burning of supposed witches was a pagan custom that would be punished by the death penalty. She knows there is another world out there, The City, one that is full of daimons and witches who would hurt her if they could. This conjures up the hellbroth made by the witches in Macbeth Act IV, Scene I, but I have some doubts as to the security of this context. The Church and European society were not always so zealous in hunting witches or blaming them for misfortunes. These were herded by children who were being trained as witches. His chiaroscuro woodcut, Witches, created in 1510, visually encompassed all the characteristics that were regularly assigned to witches during the Renaissance. Show More Sentences Beliefs of this nature are implied in the folklore of much of Europe, and were explicitly described by accused witches in central and southern Europe. Village witches, though they might know many spells and charms and some of the great songs, were never trained in the High Arts or the principles of magery. Irish and Viking literature depict the Battle of Clontarf as a gathering of this world and the supernatural, including witches, goblins and demons. They are the broomsticks associated with witches but they are effective outdoor brooms, especially for brushing leaves and wormcasts off the lawn. In 1659 ten women were accused of diverse acts of witchcraft by Dumfries Kirk Session although the Kirk Session minutes itself records nine witches. Featured in The Witches, Bruno Jenkins is lured by the witches into their convention with the promise of chocolate, before they turn him into a mouse. Probably the most famous depiction of witchcraft in literature is in Shakespeare's 1606 play Macbeth featuring the three witches and their cauldron. In transvection witches rode broomsticks, a classical phallic symbol. While the witches do not tell Macbeth directly to kill King Duncan, they use a subtle form of temptation when they tell Macbeth that he is destined to be king. Our attorney and Elder Noyse and many others talk of venefic and malignant particles, which shoot from the eyes of witches and enter the bodies of the afflicted. While attempting to remain as true to history as possible, I created a world of witches and wizards, earthdrakes and talking ravens, according to my imagination. Weredogs dread the same things which vampires, viscera suckers, and witches fear. But weredogs and witches are especially afraid of the sting ray's tail. Not only had this trial taken place in Scotland, the witches involved were recorded to have also conducted rituals with the same mannerisms as the three witches. The most famous of the many legends that surround the stones is that they were once a coven of witches who were turned to stone by a wizard from Scotland named Michael Scot. James personally supervised the torture of women accused of being witches. When Banquo asks of his own fortunes, the witches respond paradoxically, saying that he will be less than Macbeth, yet happier, less successful, yet more. They decided to punish him, and the next time he was hunting, one of the witches turned herself into a hare, and led both Bowerman and his hounds into a mire. Current projects include a film noir, a witches project based on Jeanette Winterson's novel The Daylight Gate, and a 're-boot' of the Abominable Snowman. Many neopagan witches strongly identify with this concept, and profess ethical codes that prevent them from performing magic on a person without their request. Examples from Classical Literature Not till they came in sight of the clachan of Fasagrianach, did the witches relinquish the chase. Set at liberty, curet returned to Paris, where he renewed his relations with the witches. This is supposed to be one of the drugs employed by the obi wizards and witches. The witches then cause a hailstorm, in order to spoil the crops and the fruit. It is true that the oak-tree is a black witch so far as lightning is concerned and that the beech and alder are white witches. As soon as this cry was upcast, to the hall came clerks out of Chaldea, witches and diviners, sorcerers and exorcists. The meanness and misery on the hitherward bank were like witches, who cannot cross running water. Other authorities speak of the general belief in witches sucking the dugs of cows in the form of hares. Ef ye won't tell who teched it, I'll gin a good word fur ye ter them witches what war inquirin' round fur ye ter-day. Dark and weird are the legends relating to the power of the toadstone, that amulet so highly prized by witches and astrologers. In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians. Then Perceval went with the witches to their Castle of glaive. The holiday-time of elves, witches, and ghosts is hallowe'en. Now, what in the name of Hecate and all the witches, does this mean? Examines the moral system that guides the use of magic by the witches of Discworld. All witches, Partridge, are not such ill-natured hags as that we had the misfortune to meet with last. They say witches, warlocks,and ghouls, only come out on Halloween, but many have got season tickets they sit in the stands unseen. All the witches and warlocks in Cleveland were leaving their secret sorcery at home and flying into the night sky to search out the unsuspecting. Who has not heard of the Langholm witches, and the branks to subdue them? After supper I used to catch up my cap, stick my hands in my pockets, and dive through the willow hedge as if witches were after me. Show More Sentences He well knew the futility of trying to contend against witches, so he gave up discouraged. It is like a Sabbat of witches to hear you talk, La Corriveau! I have heard that you know where the witches hold their Sabbat. For a long time the ghosts and witches pursued me even into dreamland. What will be a wholesome remedy to extirpate the pest of these witches. We're looking for pictures of the ghastliest ghosts, scariest skeletons, cutest pumpkins and most wicked witches around. Hurry on the accursed witches to the gallows, ere they do more mischief! Often in the midst of their family and friends the children would pretend to be seized with strange convulsions, and would cry out that the witches were afflicting them. No man might sleep safe, for none knew but that on the morrow he would be touched by the wand of an Isanusi, as we name a finder of witches, and led away to his death. Find more words! 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