witch
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- n a female sorcerer or magician
- n a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil
- n a believer in Wicca
- n an ugly evil-looking old woman
- v cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something
- In order to discover if someone is a witch, tie his hands and feet.
- He is, says Sanders, a hereditary witchas distinguished from the converts that Miss Johns' overly sympathetic biography obviously seeks to attract.
- Yale professor and historian John Demos looks at two millennia of witch-hunting in Europe and America.