In the 1996 film The Craft, which some critics saw as a major influence on the series Charmed, the Book of Shadows was referred to as an object in which a witch keeps her " power thoughts ".

One of the featured leads, Piper is introduced in the series as a witch and, more specifically, a Charmed Oneone of the three most powerful witches of all time.

One of the featured leads, Phoebe is introduced in the series as a witch and, more specifically, a Charmed Oneone of the most powerful witches of all time.

As a witch and Charmed One, Phoebe has also developed a number of magical powers which include Premonitions, Levitation, and Empathy.

As a witch and Charmed One, Paige has also developed a number of magical powers which include Telekinetic Orbing and Force Field ( sometimes called Orb-Shield ).

Prue is depicted as one of the featured leads as she fulfils her role as a witch and, more specifically, a Charmed Oneone of the most powerful witches of all time.

After their hesitation resulted in Eames killing a witch, Leo asked Natalie to temporarily take over as the Charmed Ones ' whitelighter.

As a witch of Warren blood and a Charmed One, Paige received the power to " move things with her mind ", which is one of the three powers belonging to her ancestor Melinda Warren.

In the eighth season of the hit cult TV show Charmed, Cuoco appeared as Billie Jenkins a young powerful witch who was also one of whitelighter Paige Matthews ' charges.

Though he threatens the hosts so they won't harm innocents of the Charmed Ones his reckless and ill-thought out scheme leads to the death of an innocent witch.

On Charmed, she played a witch named Freckles who could blow deadly kisses onto her foes.

The character is notable for being the first witch in the Warren family line and for prophesying the arrival of her descendants, the Charmed Ones, who possess access to the " Power of Three " as well as splitting between them versions of Melinda's three magical powers of Telekinesis, Premonitions, and Molecular Immobilization.

One of the main characters in US soap opera Passions is Tabitha Lenox, a 300-year-old witch.

" One of the convicted, Dorcas Hoar, was given a temporary reprieve, with the support of several ministers, to make a confession of being a witch.

One is " The Story of Calicoin ", the story of a powerful witch called Ceridwen who wished to make her son Avagddu a powerful potion that would make him a wizard.

" One example of this was Tom Reid, who was the familiar of the cunning-woman and accused witch Bessie Dunlop, while other examples included Grizell and Gridigut, who were the familiars of seventeenth century Huntingdonshire witch Jane Wallis.

One of Parris ’ slaves, Tituba, was then asked to bake a witch cake — rye mixed with the afflicted girls ’ urine — and feed the mixture to a dog.

One story claims he is the giant son of a witch and the Devil.

One was claimed to be the witch Ursley Kempe who was the first to be prosecuted.

One was as a glamorous wicked witch, and another as a conventionally ugly wicked witch.

One such 1970s campaign for Maxwell House featured the actress Margaret Hamilton, the former wicked witch in The Wizard of Oz, as Cora, the general store owner who proudly announced that Maxwell House was the only brand she sold.

One brave or foolish witch states the obvious ; that killing every child in the country is impossible ; and the Grand High Witch instantly incinerates her using lasers which shoot from her eyes.

One of the characters, Liza Hempstock, is a witch who was buried in a potter's field next to Nobody Owens ' graveyard.

One storyline involved Papa Shango, a " witch doctor ," casting a spell over Warrior, causing him to convulse and vomit in very odd colors, though Warrior says he hated that story and had no control over it.

One of the best known means by which the cunning folk opposed witchcraft was through the use of witch bottles ; ceramic bottles containing such items as urine, nails, hair and nail clippings which it was believed, when put together, would cause harm to the malevolent witch.

One afternoon, she comes upon a magic shop and correctly suspects that the shop owner is a witch.

One of his sons, Bartholomew, was one of the judges who presided over the infamous witch trials.

One key ceremony at a village temple, for instance, features a special performance of a dance-drama, a battle between the mythical characters Rangda the witch ( representing adharma, something like disorder ) and Barong the protective predator ( mostly like a lion ) ( representing dharma ), in which performers fall into a trance and attempt to stab themselves with sharp knives.

In 2008, AOL named Piper the third greatest witch in television history, behind Samantha Stevens and Willow Rosenberg.

As Piper hones her skills as a witch and a business owner, she eventually comes to the conclusion that despite loving Dan her heart will always belong to Leo.

As a magical witch Piper can utilize scrying, a divination art form that allows one to locate a missing object or person.

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

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.

This practice may stem from the influence of Gerald Gardner who wrote ( ostensibly quoting a witch, but perhaps in his own words ): The witches tell me ' The law always has been that power must be passed from man to woman or from woman to man, the only exception being when a mother initiates her daughter or a father his son, because they are part of themselves ' ( the reason is that great love is apt to occur between people who go through the rites together.

The publication of Saducismus Triumphatus, an anti-sceptical tract that has been implicated in the moral panic at Salem, involved Joseph Glanvill ( a latitudinarian ), Henry More ( a Cambridge Platonist ) as editor, and Anthony Horneck, an evangelical German Anglican, as translator of a pamphlet about a Swedish witch hunt ; and none of these was a Puritan.

* The " magical " or " sorcerer " witch: either a professional healer, sorcerer, seer or midwife, or a person who has through magic increased her fortune to the perceived detriment of a neighbouring household ; due to neighbourly or community rivalries and the ambiguity between positive and negative magic, such individuals can become labelled as witches.

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.

A rumor that has trailed Nicks through the years is that she is a witch and is heavily involved in Wicca.

In " The Dreams in the Witch House " ( 1933 ), Nyarlathotep appears to Walter Gilman and witch Keziah Mason ( who has made a pact with the entity ) in the form of " the ' Black Man ' of the witch-cult ," a black-skinned avatar of the Devil described by witch hunters.

Meanwhile, the Morrigan, who Garner presents as a malevolent shapeshifting witch, has a name adopted from Irish mythology, where she is a war goddess who is the most powerful aspect of the tripartite goddess Badb.

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 ).

" The reasoning behind this is the old belief that a witch has no soul and therefore weighs significantly less than an ordinary person ; this distinction allows the witch to fly on a broomstick.

On the island, he becomes master of the monster Caliban ( the son of Sycorax, a malevolent witch ), and Ariel, an elemental who has become enslaved by Prospero after he is freed from his prison inside a tree.

* Teen Witch ( 1989 )-While Robyn Lively's character has her palm read, the fortune teller recognizes her as reincarnated witch who will soon be coming into her powers

It has been claimed that Sprenger was not interested in witches and that he cannot be linked to any witch trial.

It has been estimated that all of the English witch trials between the early 15th and late 18th centuries resulted in fewer than 500 executions for witchcraft.

What historian James Sharpe has characterised as a " pleasing legend " grew up around the circumstances of Hopkins ' death, according to which he was subjected to his own swimming test and executed as a witch, but the parish registry at Mistley confirms his burial there.

For instance, both the stepmother and the witch in Hansel and Gretel are deeply concerned with food, the stepmother to avoid hunger, the witch with her house built of food and her desire to eat the children, and when the children kill the witch and return home, their stepmother has mysteriously died.

The witch and her story is based largely on Dame Gothel from " Rapunzel " ( though the story has been changed a bit ).

Shaw ’ s character, Marnie Stonebrook, has been described as an underachieving palm reader who is spiritually possessed by an actual witch.

In mythology and literature, a potion is usually made by a magician, sorcerer, dragon, fairy or witch and has magical properties.

Rowling has stated that the reason she had Molly kill Bellatrix was to show Molly's great powers as a witch and to provide a contrast between Molly's consumption with " maternal love " and Bellatrix's with " obsessive love ".