In anthropological terminology, a " witch " differs from a sorcerer in that they do not use physical tools or actions to curse ; their maleficium is perceived as extending from some intangible inner quality, and the person may be unaware that they are a " witch ", or may have been convinced of their own evil nature by the suggestion of others.

The book defines a witch as evil and typically female.

In this movie, Mormo is an evil witch who lives with her sisters Lamia ( Michelle Pfeiffer ) and Empusa ( Sarah Alexander ), all three of whom wish to devour the heart of an anthropomorphic star named Yvaine so as to regain their youth.

In a tale from the Metrical Dindshenchas, she is a good sorceress who joins three other of the Tuatha Dé to defeat the evil Greek witch Carman.

The Latvian beliefs on evil spirits and sorcerers likely are direct product of witch hunts in 16th and 17th centuries, though some elements may be demonization of earlier beliefs.

Its plot concerns Supergirl, Superman's cousin, leaving her isolated Kryptonian community of Argo City for Earth in an effort to retrieve the unique " Omegahedron ", which has fallen into the hands of the evil witch Selena ( Faye Dunaway ).

* Wilhelmine, an evil witch and major antagonist in The Mighty Hercules animated series from the 1960s

Evans ' character was a doll that the evil witch Tabitha Lenox brought to life with magic.

Primitive cultures turned to witch doctors or shamans to apply magic, herbal mixtures, or folk medicine to rid deranged persons of evil spirits or bizarre behavior, for example.

In Vivian Vande Velde's The Book of Mordred, Mordred is portrayed as the protagonist of the story, killing an evil wizard and saving a telepathic girl, her mother, and a witch named Nimue, who was Merlin's student.

Unfortunately the evil old couple also trick Caroline and their lawyer into the same procedure, and both end up stuck in old dying bodies unable to speak while the witch doctors walk off with their young bodies.

Finally, he was able to imprison the evil witch and her minions into a dumpster on the moon.

Witches can sometimes be unaware of their powers, and can accidentally strike people to whom the witch wishes no evil.

* Hagatha: An evil, cannibalistic witch and the sister of Manannan and Mordack.

* Swamp Witch: An evil naga-like witch who lived in a tower in the Swamp near Daventry.

He agrees to the reverse transformation, but Glinda the Good disapproves of shapeshifting magic, so it is done by the evil witch Mombi.

A Russian folk tale exists in which the evil stepmother ( also the wife of a poor woodcutter ) asks her hated stepdaughter to go into the forest to borrow a light from her sister, who turns out to be Baba Yaga, who is also a cannibalistic witch.

Evil, Hansel and Gretel, voiced by Bill Hader and Amy Poehler respectively, are portrayed as two fat German children who have been kidnapped by an evil witch, thought to be the main antagonist.

They can also visit many of the buildings to see works produced by the artists at the colony, e. g., a wooden bathhouse in the shape of a traditional dwelling of Ancient Rus, designed by Ivan Ropet, and the House on Chicken Legs, a fairy-tale abode of an evil witch, Baba Yaga, designed by Vasnetsov.

* Lady Bane ( voiced by Tress MacNeille ): The main evil witch character of the series.

Wyrd Sisters features three witches: Granny Weatherwax ; Nanny Ogg, matriarch of a large tribe of Oggs and owner of the most evil cat in the world ; and Magrat Garlick, the junior witch, who firmly believes in occult jewelry, covens, and bubbling cauldrons, much to the annoyance of the other two.

However, the evil witch Yzma has plans to summon a dark spirit named Supai and capture the sun so that she may retain her youth forever ( the sun gives her wrinkles, so she surmises that living in a world of darkness would prevent her from wrinkling ).

Phoebe also develops the power to trigger a vision in someone else with similar powers, " sharing " visions with Elders and knowing how to trigger a specific " trap " premonition in the evil witch Mitzy ( Jenny McCarthy ), who has temporary possession of her powers.

A comic book adaptation of the Sentinels storyline was also produced by Jason and John Waltrip from 1988 to 1996, across two publishers, but was cancelled before it could reach its conclusion, ending on a huge cliffhanger as Edwards's evil intentions were exposed.

Immediately after her high school graduation, Heche landed the dual role of good and evil twins Vicky and Marley on the daytime soap opera Another World.

Many of his daytime roles showcased him in evil roles, with the exception of Nick Rivers on the 1995-1997 ABC series The City.

The drama warned its audience of the dangers posed by the Antichrist, a prophesied figure of evil whose coming ( according to the Old and New Testaments ) was an indication that the end of the world, or apocalypse, was near.

English drama critic Thomas Rymer coined the phrase in The Tragedies of the Last Age Considere'd ( 1678 ) to describe how a work should inspire proper moral behaviour in its audience by illustrating the triumph of good over evil.

Green stated that in drama school, " I always picked the really evil roles.

The theme of most of the drama is to create a social wellbeing with morals illustrating the rise, turbulence and fall of evil.

In terms of plot, despite being simplistic in its portrait of good and evil characters, the show was able to stay fresh with young audiences with an irresistible mix of action, horror, comedy, and drama, sometimes all in one single episode.

The play also falls into the category of the " villain play ," a drama in which the dominant figure is not a traditional protagonist or hero but his antagonist, a figure of evil.

These can spring especially from the problem of evil ( what Pope Benedict XVI has termed " the drama of God's darkness ".

It was announced on June 25, 2009 that she will have a recurring role on The CW drama Gossip Girl playing the role of Bree Buckley who is described as a fun, sexy brunette, an irreverent evil Miss America type who is politically progressive but hails from a conservative Southern family.

Born portrayed an evil prison warden on Passions in 2007, and played the contract role of Dean Trent Robbins on the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives from May 29, 2008 to September 26, 2008.

Kane is known for her portrayal of the evil headmistress Madame Morrible in the Broadway musical Wicked, whom she played in various productions from 2005 to 2009.

Other notables included Karl Urban in a variety of roles such as Cupid and Caesar, Hudson Leick as Xena's nemesis Callisto ( Leick also played a body-switched Xena in the episode Intimate Stranger ), Claire Stansfield as the evil shamaness Alti ; and a number of trusted friends – Jennifer Sky as feisty sidekick Amarice, Bruce Campbell as Autolycus King of Thieves, Robert Trebor as dodgy entrepreneur Salmoneus, William Gregory Lee as the warrior-poet Virgil and Tim Omundson as the spiritual healer Eli.

His debut film role was in the comedic sci-fi horror film Critters 3, in which he played the stepson of an evil landlord, a role that DiCaprio described as " your average, no-depth, standard kid with blond hair.

Complicating this is the escape of an ancient evil called Pandora from the Matrix in the paradoxical form of Romana's first incarnation ( played once again by Mary Tamm ).

But not everything is pink for the young couple and they have to survive, among other things, opposition by Miguel Angel's parents, Horacio ( Humberto Garcia ) and Rebecca ( Chony Fuentes ); Horacio < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s declining mental health that makes him become more and more dangerous, the obsessive passion that evil Santa Ortigosa ( Miguel Angel's ex, played by Gigi Zancheta ) feels for Miguel Angel, a partnership that Horacio creates with two drug dealers who end up murdered by him ' when he finds out they are using him, the revelation that Estrellita < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s mother was killed by a younger Horacio because she left him for the man who would become Estrellita < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s father and the kidnapping by Horacio of Miguel Angel and Estrellita < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s boy twins once Miguel Angel and Estrellita had married and begun a family.

His portrayal of Jews as subhuman and evil is widely considered to have played a critical role in the dehumanization and marginalization of the Jewish minority in the eyes of common Germans — creating the necessary conditions for the later perpetration of the Holocaust.

Whitman played evil ex Roxy Richter in Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, a film adaptation of the Bryan Lee O ' Malley indie comic series Scott Pilgrim.

Lestat then resumes the narrative, claiming that he has regained his " evil " nature, and decides to make Talbot into a vampire against his wishes, and despite the role Talbot played in saving his life when everyone else abandoned him.

Scales played ' The Client ', an evil government minister funding inter-genetic time travel experiments.

( Frollo and Jones are among the few truly evil characters that Hardwicke played.

In 1990, she starred as a supporting character in the period horror film Haunting of Morella as the evil attendant to a young woman played by model / actress Nicole Eggert.

Here, he played the villain Dr. Kesslee, the evil director of the global Water and Power Company, whose main goal in the story was to control the planet's entire water supply on a future desert-like, post-apocalyptic Earth.

After Thalapathi, Amrish Puri made his second and last appearance in the Rajinkanth's film Baba ( 2002 ) in which he played the role of an evil tantrik who helps politicians and other evil elements to succeed in their hideous schemes.

They wore insect-themed outfits with antennae and wings which allowed them to fly, though, on occasion they were shown flying on surfboards, and were constantly beset by the evil machinations of Benita Bizarre, played by comedienne Martha Raye, who, being untalented and ugly herself, was covetous of the Bugaloos ' musical prowess.

Cabiria was a story about a slave named Maciste ( played by Bartolomeo Pagano ) who was involved in the rescue of a Roman princess from an evil Carthaginian king who plotted to sacrifice her to the cruel god Moloch.

* In the movie Evil Dead II, Ash, played by actor Bruce Campbell, is forced to chop off his right hand when it becomes possessed by an evil spirit.

" Diebold spokesman David Bear played down the seriousness of the situation, asserting that " For there to be a problem here, you're basically assuming a premise where you have some evil and nefarious election officials who would sneak in and introduce a piece of software.

The local underground caves were used as the filming location for the underworld, ruled by the evil Lady of the Green Kirtle ( played by Barbara Kellerman ), in the 1990 BBC adaptation of The Silver Chair ( one of the Narnia books written by C. S.

The character of the Wizard was in the book a good man though a bad wizard but in the play, the villain of the piece ; this is reflected by the evil part he is described as having played in the back story of this work.

Dismissing the conventional comedic approach to the character, Macklin played the character as consummately evil.

In 1998 he made his last film appearance in the unsuccessful film Qila where once again he played dual roles as an evil landowner and his twin brother investigating his death.

In two episodes of Season One, Ames also portrayed Mingo's evil twin brother, Caramingo .. Ames also played a bandit on a 1962 The Rifleman episode.

* Lothor: the evil ninja master who was once Kiya Watanabe, the brother of Sensei Watanabe ( also played by Grant McFarland )