Allison Peirson was burned as a witch in 1588 for conversing with the ' Queen of Elfame ' and for prescribing magic charms and potions.

* 1612 – The " Samlesbury witches ", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused for practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in English history.

1678, Harvard College ; A. M. 1681, honorary doctorate 1710, University of Glasgow ) was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer ; he is often remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials.

Among Ike's objectives in not directly confronting McCarthy was to prevent McCarthy from dragging the Atomic Energy Commission into McCarthy's witch hunt for communists, which would interfere with, and perhaps delay, the AEC's important work on H-bombs.

A hidden stable watched over by Mother Handaway, the local " witch " ( who believed the Scarecrow to be The Devil in living form ), was the hiding place for the horses of the Scarecrow and his lieutenants, Mipps and the local highwayman Jimmie Bone ( who, being as good a horseman as Syn, was sometimes called upon to impersonate the Scarecrow when Syn either had to be elsewhere or seen in the same place as him ).

Halfway through the ceremony, he heard the word " Wica ", and he recognised it as an Old English word for " witch ".

He later included it in his monogram, and it has also been suggested that it came from " grienhals ", a German word for witch.

* 1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for " certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries ".

Grandi called the curve versoria in Latin and suggested the term versiera for Italian, possibly as a pun: ' versoria ' is a nautical term, " sheet ", while versiera / aversiera is " she-devil ", " witch ", from Latin Adversarius, an alias for " devil " ( Adversary of God ).

Primarily known for her work in Egyptology, which was " the core of her academic career ," she is also known for her propagation of the Witch-cult hypothesis, the theory that the witch trials in the Early Modern period of Christianized Europe and North America were an attempt to extinguish a surviving pre-Christian, pagan religion devoted to a Horned God.

Ever since its first publication, Murray's theory has come under criticism for flaws in its use of evidence, with later historian Ronald Hutton remarking that it consisted of " a few well-known works by Continental demonologists, a few tracts printed in England and quite a number of published records of Scottish witch trials.

She was captured by the forces of Pedro IV and under orders of Portuguese Capuchin Friars condemned for being a witch and a heretic and consequently burned to death.

Emboldened by this, the Philistines prepared to attack Israel, and Saul led out his army to face them at Mount Gilboa, but before the battle decided to consult the witch of Endor for advice.

This was followed by Burton's first live-action production Hansel and Gretel, a Japanese-themed adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale for the Disney Channel, which climaxes in a kung fu fight between Hansel and Gretel and the witch.

Another, less widespread theory, is that the Slavic languages have borrowed the word from a Turkic term for " witch " ( e. g., Tatar ubyr ).

It was partly down to the legend of the witch that prompted TV's Most Haunted team to visit Wookey Hole Caves and Mill to explore the location in depth, searching for evidence of paranormal activity.

Davis's claim has been criticized, particularly the suggestion that Haitian witch doctors can keep " zombies " in a state of pharmacologically induced trance for many years.

* At least seven women are sentenced to death by burning for witchcraft at the Finspång witch trial in Sweden.

In France Leger ( first name unknown ) is condemned for witchcraft on May 6, and Sylvanie de la Plaine is burned at Pays de Labourde as a witch.

* July 16 – The city of Würzburg is taken by Gustav Adolf of Sweden, putting an end to the Würzburg witch trials, but not before an estimated 900 people from the city and its environs had been burned at the stake for witchcraft.

McCarthy's so-called " witch hunt ", combined with national tension and weariness after two years of bloody stalemate in the Korean War, the Communist Revolution in China, the 1949 Soviet acquisition of nuclear weapons, and the early-1950s recession, set the stage for a hotly fought presidential contest.

Some practitioners of Wicca adopt a " craft name " or " witch name " upon initiation for use within their community.

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.

Jack ’ s only love interest throughout the show is Rachel, apart from a girl revealed to be a witch with whom he was briefly involved for a Halloween special.

Suttungr took it and hid it in the center of a mountain, with his daughter Gunnlöð, standing guard whom he turned into a witch in order to guard it.

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

Glover was a miserable old woman whom her husband often described as a witch ; this is perhaps why Glover was accused of casting spells on the Goodwin children.

For instance, the alleged witch Margaret Ley from Liverpool claimed, in 1667, that she had been gifted her familiar spirit from her mother when she died, while the Leicestershire cunning-woman Joan Willimot related, in 1618, that a mysterious figure whom she only referred to as her " master ", " willed her to open her mouth and he would blow into her a fairy which should do her good.

“ Have you believed there is some female, whom the stupid vulgar call Holda in some manuscripts, strigam Holdam, the witch Holda, who is able to do a certain thing, such that those deceived by the devil affirm themselves by necessity and by command to be required to do, that is, with a crowd of demons transformed into the likeness of women, on fixed nights to be required to ride upon certain beasts, and to themselves be numbered in their company?

* The house of Mombi, a witch whom the Wizard hired to transform and keep hidden Ozma, the rightful ruler of Oz.

This illustration shows the witch Anqarut in the guise of a beautiful young woman, who hopes to seduce the handsome king Malik Iraj, whom she has captured and tied to a tree.

Otto advises him to slip away and sleep with his maid Maria, whom Otto convinces him to be a witch, " in the best possible sense ".

He stated that the neighbours, instigated by a witch, whom he pointed out, took some wax, and moulded it before the fire into the form of her husband, as near as they could represent him ; they then pierced the image with pins on all sides -- repeated the Lord's Prayer backwards, and offered prayers to the devil that he would fix his stings into the person whom that figure represented, in like manner as they pierced it with pins.

While Aleister Crowley, with whom he was acquainted, adopted the persona of a modern-day witch, Summers played the part of the learned Catholic witch-hunter.

Handsome Lake soon became obsessed with witch hunting and demanded confessions from those whom he suspected of witchcraft ; some of those who refused to confess were killed.

Eleven years later Godfrey produced Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, reportedly containing the traditional beliefs of Italian witchcraft as conveyed him in a manuscript provided by a woman named Maddalena, whom he refers to as his " witch informant.

; Cesia: A part-Yokai whom the Dragon Knights accidentally " rescued " from a witch.

Katy and Unico befriend a lonely old woman, whom Katy mistakenly believes is a witch and will teach her some magic as well as transform her into a human girl.

When she arrives, he asks her to help him talk to Nessa, whom Elphaba discovers has become a witch, called the Wicked Witch of the East.

Appearing as the player's tutors in the game are the sentient twin witch doctor masks Aku Aku and Uka Uka, both of whom give hints that help the player develop their racing skills.

She also encounters Gloria Dump, a woman whom children think is a witch.

She escapes, however, and goes to see Letitia, whom she discovers is also an untrained but talented witch.

Her father has at least four sisters: Vesta, seen only once in the first-season episode " Third Aunt from the Sun " ( played by Raquel Welch ) but mentioned many times and Hilda and Zelda, both of whom Sabrina lives with, and Sophia, a witch who lived in Rome and looked identical to Sabrina.

Salmon's account shows how the problematic sentence can be true even though there are no witches, and even if Hob and Nob do not know about each other, and there is no one whom they think is a witch.

A strange woman ( whom we learn to be a witch ) comes to their door, demanding to see " Max " ( My Secret Agent Lover Man ).