In Greek mythology, Circe (; Greek Κίρκη Kírkē " falcon ") is a minor goddess of magic ( or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress ), described in Homer's Odyssey as " The loveliest of all immortals ".

The witch Circe turned him into a woodpecker for scorning her love.

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

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.

There he meets Glaucus, freeing the god from a thousand years of imprisonment by the witch Circe.

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.

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.

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.

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 the book, she is turned into a white doe by an Indian witch doctor after she rejects his advances.

* In Child ballad 35, Allison Gross, the title witch turned a man into a wyrm for refusing to be her lover.

As the eldest, she is resigned to the " fact " that she will have no chance of finding her fortune, accepting that she will have a dull life running the family hat shop — until she is turned into an old crone by the Witch of the Waste, a unusually strong and powerful witch who was not satisfied by Sophie's hats.

When the witch got home, the star would have burned, and the witch would be slowly consumed, her own witchcraft turned against her.

Other stories include a story from Girona that a particular gargoyle is actually a witch turned to stone, or a story from Canigó of witches producing a hailstorm by urinating into a hole and beating the liquid with vines.

Meanwhile, Claudia ( Kathleen Turner ), a former fairy godmother who has turned into an evil witch, has shown up at the meeting uninvited.

The story, present in the game's manual but mostly conveyed through the introductory animation by Eric W. Schwartz, concerns an unnamed prince, who is turned into a frog by a jealous witch, in homage to the Frog Prince fairy tale.

When the player has defeated the witch, a quick end sequence shows the frog and the princess kissing, but-rather than the frog turning back into the prince-the princess is turned into a frog instead.

By the Early Modern period, folkloric stories had grown up around the Stones, telling of how they had once been a king and his knights who had been turned to stone by a witch ; such stories continued to be taught amongst local people well into the 19th century.

He was corrupted by the witch, Malicia, turned into the Troll King, and took the place of the real Troll King.

Or they used to, before the evil witch Mombi turned her malice in the Ozure direction.

Minerva is also the first name of Professor McGonagall, Harry Potter's Head of House, and a very wise witch of Hogwarts, always concerned with the safety of her students.

Loki tells Freyja to be silent, calls her a malicious witch, and conjures a scenario where Freyja was once astride her brother when all of the gods, laughing, surprised the two.

The following year she was the voice of the title character, Kiki, a 13-year-old apprentice witch who leaves her home village to spend a year on her own, in the anime movie Kiki's Delivery Service ( 1998 ).

In response, Loki calls Freyja a malicious witch, and claims that Freyja was once astride her brother Freyr, when all of the other laughing gods surprised her, Freyja then farted.

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.

The God of the Witches ( 1931 ) expanded on her claims that the witch cult had worshiped a Horned God whose origins went back to prehistory.

Murray's work involved her rationalizing many elements of the witch trials, particularly those she deemed impossible, such as the accounts of witches flying through the air or the Devil existing as a supernatural entity.

As soon as Murray published her theory she received criticism from other historians who had studied the Early Modern witch trials.

It was likely because few experts in the witch trials actually bothered to counter her arguments that many Britons, including several historians not familiar with the witch trials, simply assumed that Murray's view was the consensus as to the nature of European witchcraft, and included her ideas in their own works.

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 witch, unaware of who he was, reminded Saul that the king ( i. e. Saul himself ) had made witchery a capital offence, but after being assured that Saul wouldn't harm her, the witch conjures up the spirit of Samuel.

* 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.

Nixon met with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and did not believe her assertion that she would not invade Pakistan ; he did not trust her and once referred to her as an " old witch ".

Nicks's music is copyrighted under the name Welsh Witch Music, a reference to her song " Rhiannon ", which she introduced as " a song about a Welsh witch " in concerts between 1975 and 1978.

In 1645, 46 years before the Salem witch trials, Springfield, Massachusetts experienced America's first accusations of witchcraft when husband and wife, Hugh and Mary Parsons, accused each other of witchcraft.

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.

Mrs. Goodbody plays the role of a witch, and girls can look into a mirror to know what their future husbands will look like ( a picture of the husband is said to be reflected in the mirror ).

Divination rituals such as the one depicted on this early-20th-century Halloween greeting card, where a woman stares into a mirror in a darkened room to catch a glimpse of the face of her future husband while a witch lurks in the shadows, may be one origin of the Bloody Mary legend.

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.

Thomas was the husband to Ann Carr, and father of Ann Putnam, Jr. Thomas ' brother, Edward, also participated in the witch trials.

Her aunt, Mary Woodrow, the wife of Samuel Sibley ( 1657 – 1708 ), was the person who first showed Tituba and her husband John Indian how to bake a witch cake to feed to a dog in order that she and her friends might ascertain exactly who it was that was afflicting them.

Of his Shakespearean roles on Broadway, Cromwell played Paris, kinsman to the prince, in Romeo and Juliet ( 1935 ) starring Katharine Cornell, who also produced the play, and Maurice Evans, in the title roles ; Rosencrantz in Hamlet ( 1936 ), which was staged and produced by Guthrie McClintic ( Cornell's husband, who had been married to Estelle Winwood ), starring John Gielgud in the title role, Judith Anderson as Gertrude, and Lillian Gish as Ophelia ; and Lennox in the revival of Macbeth ( 1948 ) starring Michael Redgrave in the title role and Flora Robson as Lady Macbeth, with Julie Harris as a witch, Martin Balsam as one of the three murderers, and Beatrice Straight as Lady MacDuff.

A client, Mary, reported that she sometimes experienced herself as a witch, eager to murder her husband, particularly when he was drunk.

In the middle of the same night, the townspeople come for Kit — Adam Cruff, Goodwife Cruff's husband, had accused Kit of being a witch.