According to English folk understanding of how witches accomplished affliction, when the dog ate the cake, the witch herself would be hurt because invisible particles she had sent to afflict the girls remained in the girls ' urine, and her cries of pain when the dog ate the cake would identify her as the witch.

Infuriated, the witch demonstrates, and Gretel instantly shoves the witch into the oven, slams and bolts the door shut, leaving " The ungodly witch to be burned to ashes ", the witch screaming in pain until she dies.

Probably the most obvious characteristic of a witch was the ability to cast a spell, " spell " being the word used to signify the means employed to carry out a magical action.

Seeing the " witch " on the run and the " spell " broken, Glasdale's garrison burst out to give chase, but according to legend, Joan turned around on them alone, raised her holy standard and cried out " Ou Nom De " (" In the name of God "), which reportedly was sufficient to impress the English to halt their pursuit and return to the Boulevart.

A witchcraft trial in Bergen, Norway held in 1324 resulted in the recording of a spell used by the witch Ragnhild Tregagás to end the marriage of her former lover, a man named Bárd.

When Cordelia decides she needs to break up to preserve her social status, Xander coerces witch Amy Madison ( Elizabeth Anne Allen ) to cast a love spell, which misfires ; Cordelia is unaffected but, seeing how much Xander loves her, reunites with him in defiance of her former friends, in " Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered ".

Her ability to entrance and hypnotise her victim with a spell was in the earliest stories seen as being literally supernatural ; hence, the femme fatale today is still often described as having a power akin to an enchantress, seductress, vampire, witch, or demon.

Recourse was had by the girl ’ s parents to a cunning man, named Burrell, residing at Copford, who has long borne the name of “ The Wizard of the North :” but her case was of so peculiar a character as to baffle his skill to dissolve the spell, Application was next made to a witch doctor named Murrell, residing at Hadleigh, Essex, who undertook to effect a cure, giving a bottle of medication, for which he did not forget to charge 3s.

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.

" British cunning folk were known to use a variety of methods in order to cure someone of malevolent sorcery, including tackling the witch either physically or through the law courts, breaking the spell over the individual by magical means, and by using charms and potions to remove the witchcraft from the afflicted person's body.

During a later battle with Circe, the witch placed a spell on Diana leaving Wonder Woman powerless when in the role of Diana Prince.

They tell Cauchon that she conjured a spell to make the new clothing appear, which suggests that she is an evil witch who must be burned immediately.

As a witch, Aram possesses magical abilities such as manipulation of lightning and wind to smite his opponents ; superhuman agility ; shutting down or driving away The Darkness simply by being in its presence ; transferring his mystical presence into others through physical contact ; casting a spell that binds a creature to a given area ; and is able to communicate with others through blood rituals.

( This sequence echoes a similar storyline in Ariosto: the witch Alcina ensnares the knight Ruggiero, but the spell is broken by a magic ring that the good sorceress Melissa brings him ; earlier antecedents include Circe's attempt to keep Odysseus on her island and Morgan le Fay taking Ogier the Dane off to a faraway island ).

Rich, white high-school kids, friends of Marsh's daughter, are suspected of pushing heroin ; and a local ( Marc Grapey ) thinks his neighbor ( Melora Walters ) is a witch and that she's cast a spell on him.

Over the course of several series, other characters were added: Hazel the McWitch, a Scottish witch ; Nadia Popov, a Dutch ghost who suffers from hay fever and teleports away when she sneezes ; and the pantomime horse Dobbin, who first appears in a one-off Christmas special called " Rentasanta " and is brought to life by Claypole, who is unable to cancel the spell afterwards – thus allowing Dobbin to remain in the show for the rest of the run.

Nigel attends the party with Iris and when Nigel begins flirting with much younger guests, Iris reveals she is also a witch and casts a spell on each girl.

A witch's ladder ( also known as rope and feathers, witches ' ladder, witches ladder, or witch ladder ) is a fetish, in folk magic or witchcraft that is made from knotted cord or hair, that normally constitutes a spell.

The witch bottle is a very old spell device.

Some witch's bottles were thrown into a fire and when they exploded, the spell was broken or the witch supposedly killed.

The beast itself was a prisoner of the witch, held bondage by a powerful spell.

* Willow pulls off the restoration spell in another development of her budding abilities as a witch, a crucial plot through the rest of the series.

Enraged, Eve seeks out a local witch, Elzora ( Diahann Carroll ), and commissions a voodoo spell to put a fatal curse on her father.

To escape, he turns to another witch, Bianca de Passe ( Hermione Gingold ), who breaks the spell.

The only person who can reverse the spell is Maggie, who was costumed as a witch, and has become one as a result.

* A second witch craze breaks out in Biscay, Spain.

After a year of dating, Jason discovers Phoebe's secret identity as a witch by accident and unable to handle the revelation breaks up with her.

When Gorlois suspects that Igraine has an affair with Uther, he turns on her, accuses her of being a whore and a witch, and even breaks his oath to Uther.

The editorial, whose name is a pun on an old Czech saying, witch roughly translates to: so long we go to the water with a mug, until the handle breaks off, is centered around the publication of Sin City by the Crew publishing company, witch it formerly hesitated to do, stating that its members fear that the book would never sell good enough on the small Czech market to cover for its publication expenses. It also promises the publication of manga, Adam Warrens Dirty Pair.

In the middle of their conversation a witch named Alice breaks into the Sun Room saying she wants to join their coven, Prue throws her out of the house.

The witch Armida ( modeled on Circe in Homer and the witch Alcina in Ariosto's epic ) enters the Christian camp asking for their aid ; her seductions divide the knights against each other and a group leaves with her, only to be transformed into animals by her magic.

Homer then accuses her of being a witch and everybody proceeds to chase her.

The Simpson family sits on the couch, with Homer appearing as the jack-in-the-box from " Treehouse of Horror II ", Marge as the witch from " Treehouse of Horror VIII ", Bart as the half-fly mutant from " Treehouse of Horror VIII ".

Before the witch can attack Lisa and Bart, Homer comes to the rescue, eating his way through the gingerbread house's walls.

The witch turns Homer into a half-chicken, half-fish creature with donkey ears and brooms as arms, then tries to roast him in the oven, but Homer overpowers her and shoves the witch inside instead.

: Bartificial Intelligence ," Homer and various other male characters find themselves on a reality show where Mr. Burns hunts humans for sport in " Survival of the Fattest ," and costumed Springfieldianites become whatever they are wearing ( thanks to a witch who was disqualified from a Halloween costume contest ) in " I've Grown a Costume To Your Face.

The witch arrests Tumnus and turns him to stone.

" Unlike other critics, Milne thought the new plot was refreshing: " With the possibilities of the characters the previous Halloween films well and truly exhausted, Season of the Witch turns more profitably to a marvellously ingenious Nigel Kneale tale of a toymaker and his fiendish plan to restore Halloween to its witch cult origins.

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.

* In Eichendorff's 1812 poem " Waldesgespräch ", a rider meets a beautiful young woman in the forest who turns out to be " the witch Loreley "; she tells him that he will never leave the forest

After the queen dies, an evil witch ensnares the king, and turns his three sons into ravens to rid herself of her rivals.

In the Book Ultimate Journey ( 1994 ), by Robert Monroe Monroe visits a person through his astral projection ( although no name is mentioned ) who turns out to have lived one single life for 1800 years, witch would suggest that he was born around 203 CE.

It turns out to be a powerful and evil witch, and it possesses Julia and spirits her away through a pyramid of fire.

During the night, Althalus and Eliar hear someone sneaking towards their camp and capture the boy named Gher, who, it turns out, is their sixth member. Emerald finally sorts out the problems with Andine by using Gher as a voice, Andine ( having a change of heart ) helps clean up the beaten up Gher and they head to Kweron to find their final member ; a " witch ".

( In the 2005 film after Maugrim catches the fox which helped the beavers and the other three Pevensies elude him, the witch turns the fox to stone and hits Edmund for withholding information about Aslan and his army.

Kari Wührer stars as a witch, who turns the king's son Barek into an immortal berserker.

Afterwards, a witch called Ethel Hallow teases Mildred about it, and turns her into a frog.

After hearing their plot to turn every teacher and student witch in the academy into frogs, Mildred turns the group into snails, packs them into cardboard boxes and takes them back to the academy.

The advent of Simon Tregarth, a man who turns out to possess some magical power and who forms a magical link with the witch Jaelithe after she becomes his wife, poses an uncomfortable challenge to the conservative witch hierarchy, which is by slow degrees forced to accept that males-and females who have relationships with them-can and do possess magic power.

During his quest, he encounters several people: Julia Laforeze, a young witch in exile who turns out to be Isaac's sister, Trevor Belmont, who distrusts him for being a Devil Forgemaster, Zead, a kindly holyman who provides him with reliable information about Isaac's whereabouts, and St. Germain, a mysterious time traveller who presses him to abandon his quest, but eventually leaves him alone with some cryptic comments about a " new destiny " having emerged for him.

Hawkeye and Eagle decide to confront Flamekhan about it, only to find that he is in the middle of a meeting with his assistant, the witch Isabella, who turns out to be pulling Flamekhan's strings.

They get the cane and bring it back to the ' witch ' who turns out to be Tori's great-aunt.

Next, they wind up on the island of Circe ( Bernadette Peters ), a beautiful witch who turns his men into animals and blackmails him into sleeping with her.