' I am she that is the natural mother of all things, mistress and governess of all the elements, the initial progeny of worlds, chief of powers divine, Queen of heaven, the principal of the Gods celestial, the light of the goddesses: at my will the planets of the air, the wholesome winds of the Seas, and the silences of hell be disposed ; my name, my divinity is adored throughout all the world in divers manners, in variable customs and in many names, [...] Some call me Juno, others Bellona of the Battles, and still others Hecate.

Middleton's chief witch is a 120-year-old practitioner called Hecate.

* Hecate, the chief witch

Medea is known in most stories as an enchantress and is often depicted as being a priestess of the goddess Hecate or a witch.

Later, Talbot refers to her as " Pucelle, that witch, that damn'd sorceress " ( 3. 2. 37 ) and " Foul fiend of France, and hag of all despite " ( 3. 2. 51 ), declaring " I speak not to that railing Hecate " ( 3. 2. 64 ).

Sebastian enters and asks Hecate to make Antonio impotent so he won't be able to have sex with Isabella.

Hesiod said she became the goddess Hecate.

John Tzetzes in Posthomerica enumerates the Amazons that fell at Troy: Hippothoe, Antianeira, Toxophone, Toxoanassa, Gortyessa, Iodoce, Pharetre, Andro, Ioxeia, Oïstrophe, Androdaïxa, Aspidocharme, Enchesimargos, Cnemis, Thorece, Chalcaor, Eurylophe, Hecate, Anchimache, Andromache the queen.

In some versions of the myth ,, Artemis made Iphigenia her attendant or turned her into Hecate, goddess of night, witchcraft, and the underworld.

During the Classical period in Athens, she was identified with Hecate.

Devotion to Hecate was especially favored by the Byzantines for her aid in having protected them from the incursions of Philip of Macedon.

Other accounts make her the daughter of Hecate.

Tauropolos is an ancient epithet attached to Hecate, Artemis and even Athena.

Hesiod and Stesichorus tell the story according to which after her death Iphigenia was divinised under the name of Hecate, fact which would support the assumption that Artemis Tauropolos had a real ancient alliance with the heroine, who was her priestess in Taurid and her human paragon.

Cuma too had a cult of a chthonic Hecate and certainly had strict contacts with Latium.

Primary examples of taboo words requiring the use of a euphemism are names for deities, such as Persephone, Hecate, or Nemesis.

* Hecate: Goddess of sorcery, crossroads and magic.

Dogs were closely associated with Hecate in the Classical world.

" In art and in literature Hecate is constantly represented as dog-shaped or as accompanied by a dog.

" The sacrifice of dogs to Hecate is attested for Thrace, Samothrace, Colophon, and Athens.

Although in later times Hecate's dog came to be thought of as a manifestation of restless souls or demons who accompanied her, its docile appearance and its accompaniment of a Hecate who looks completely friendly in many pieces of ancient art suggests that its original signification was positive and thus likelier to have arisen from the dog's connection with birth than the dog's demonic associations.

Blood-coloured itself, it was sacred to the blood-eating goddess Hecate.

" At Athens, it is said there stood a statue of Hecate Triglathena, to whom the red mullet was offered in sacrifice.

After mentioning that this fish was sacred to Hecate, Alan Davidson writes, " Cicero, Horace, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny, Seneca and Suetonius have left abundant and interesting testimony to the red mullet fever which began to affect wealthy Romans during the last years of the Republic and really gripped them in the early Empire.

The frog, significantly a creature that can cross between two elements, also has become sacred to Hecate in modern Pagan literature.

In her three-headed representations, discussed above, Hecate often has one or more animal heads, including cow, dog, boar, serpent and horse.

Hecate was closely associated with plant lore and the concoction of medicines and poisons.

Apollonius of Rhodes, in the Argonautica mentions that Medea was taught by Hecate, " I have mentioned to you before a certain young girl whom Hecate, daughter of Perses, has taught to work in drugs.

The yew in particular was sacred to Hecate.

Hecate was said to favor offerings of garlic, which was closely associated with her cult.

Sir William Phips, governor of the newly chartered Province of Massachusetts Bay, appointed his lieutenant governor, William Stoughton, as head of a special witchcraft tribunal and then as chief justice of the colonial courts, where he presided over the witch trials.

Their first opponent was a chief named Cópil, son of a witch named Malinalxochitl and sister of Huitzilopochtli.

It was admitted in court during the Salem witch trials by the appointed chief justice, William Stoughton.

Ilse Koch, known as " the witch of Buchenwald ", was the chief female guard at the Buchenwald camp, and at the same time married to the camp commandant, Karl Koch.

Murgen's chief opponents are the magician Tamurello and the witch Desmei, who chafe at Murgen's restrictions and work to destroy him.

In Maori tradition a pā would also be abandoned if a chief was killed or if some calamity took place that a tohunga ( witch doctor / shaman ) had attributed to an evil spirit ( atua ).

During the arc of the Adam plot, and after considerable torture at the hands of Nicholas Blair and Angelique Bouchard, another witch / vampire and Barnabas's chief nemesis, Barnabas's character on the show changed from haunted Villain to outright Hero.

If it was determined that some misfortune which had befallen the area had been caused by a witch, the chief summoned his people to a great meeting, in which they all sat in a circle, sometimes for four or five days.

After street fighting in Constantinople between his supporters and the men of the chief minister Joseph Bringas, he enters the city and is crowned emperor on 16 August.

Jean Valjean enters the town of Montreuil-sur-Mer in late 1815 and saves the two children of the town's police chief from a fire.

In 1877 he had published The Poetic Interpretation of Nature, in which he enters fully into the " old quarrel ," as Plato called it, between science and poetry, and traces with great clearness the ideas of nature in all the chief Hebrew, classical and English poets.

When the police chief enters the classroom, he shoots the now-unarmed Charlie when he attempts suicide by cop.

The chief tributary of the Cannon River is the Straight River, which enters the Cannon in Faribault.

The Doctor enters the library where he meets an old friend, the chief librarian Elgin.

Its chief importance is defining part of the boundary between Eritrea and Ethiopia between the point where the Mai Ambassa enters the river at to the confluence of the Balasa with the Mareb at.

The river enters the City of Calgary at the Weaselhead Flats, an artificial inland delta, and into the Glenmore Reservoir, one of Calgary's two chief sources of drinking water.