In the following decade he moved on to look at other topics, publishing a book about Siberian shamanism in the western imagination, Shamans ( 2001 ), a collection of essays on folklore and Paganism, Witches, Druids and King Arthur ( 2003 ) and then two books on the role of the Druids in the British imagination, The Druids ( 2007 ) and Blood and Mistletoe ( 2009 ).

* Exploring the Guilsborough Witches: essay on the folklore of Guilsborough

Although the company has staged productions of plays by American authors such as Tennessee Williams, David Mamet and Arthur Miller, it has concentrated much of its work on collaborating with Britain's top living writers, including David Almond, Michael Morpurgo, Philip Pullman, Terry Deary, David Wood and has also shown a particular penchant for Roald Dahl stories such as Fantastic Mr Fox, George's Marvellous Medicine, The Witches and James and the Giant Peach.

In the play, he is at first an ally to Macbeth ( both are generals in the King's army ) and they are together when they meet the Three Witches.

It is commonly called " Wicca ", a term that came to be adopted in the early 1960s, although in the late 1970s and 1980s certain Pagan Witches began to instead use that term purely in reference to specific traditions of the Pagan Craft, and in the contemporary pagan community both definitions are now employed, causing some confusion.

Faery Witch covens of gay men only have been formed and are readily accepted among the larger group of Faery Witches.

The House of Gaian are the Witches, known as the daughters ( and sons ) who rule the Mother's Hills.

* In Clash of the Titans ( and its 2010 remake ) the Graeae are called the " Stygian Witches ".

This Oshun is associated with Witches ( Aje ), and her symbols are the vulture, and the mortar and pestle ( both of which are symbols of witchcraft ).

The main areas to visit in the park are Joalah, Cedar Creek, The Knoll, MacDonald Park, Niche's Corner, Palm Grove and Witches Falls.

There are Witches and Warlocks who live in convents, specialize in black magic and demonology, and are able not only do magic but to ask miracles of Lucifer and his angels.

Jack Sheppard, Guy Fawkes, 1841, Old St Paul's, 1841, Windsor Castle, 1843, and The Lancashire Witches are regarded as his most successful novels.

Christian missionaries ' attitude to African cults was not much different in principle to their attitude to the Witches ' Sabbath in Europe ; some accounts viewed them as a kind of Witches ' Sabbath, but they are not.

In Terry Pratchett's Witches Abroad, the witches are said to be flying along " a maze of twisty little canyons, all alike.

Other theatres that occasionally perform with marionettes are the Little Angel Theatre founded by John and Lyndie Wright in Islington, London, Whose first ever show The Wild Night Of The Witches was a marionette play, It opened the theatre in 1961 and was revived for the 50th anniversary in 2011 The Norwich Puppet Theatre founded by Ray & Joan DaSilva sometimes present marionette shows and the Puppet Theatre Barge continue to perform using long string marionettes throughout the year, founded by Gren Middleton and Juliet Rogers The barge is based in Little Venice, London during the winter months and tours to places such as Richmond Upon Thames during the summer.

Two Witches are mentioned by name in the Narnian books, the White Witch ( Jadis: Empress of Charn, or the " White Lady ") and the Lady of the Green Kirtle ( or " the Green Lady ").

The Germans were the ones however who gave them the name by which they are best known: The Night Witches ( die Nachthexen ).

Glinda is the Good Witch of the South and is played by Miss Piggy, as are her sisters the Good Witch of the North and the two Wicked Witches.

He also wrote many science fiction novels, most known among them are " The Last War " ( 1970 ), " Thirteen years of travel ", " Those who survive " ( filmed as the animated short Pereval ), " The Witches Cave " ( filmed ), " River Chronos ", " Abduction of a sorcerer ".

Witches tend to lead lonely lives ; they are generally feared and respected rather than liked, and often perform their duties with little or no thanks from the populace at large.

The majority of Discworld Witches are seen in the Ramtops region of Discworld, and, barring the latest book in the Tiffany Aching series, the primary protagonists of the Witch books are from Lancre, a country in the Ramtops region.

At the time of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the lands in the North, South, East and West of Oz are each ruled by a witch ; the Witches of the North and South are Good, while the Witches of the East and West are Wicked.

Macbeth and Banquo with the Witches by Henry Fuseli

He appears again to Macbeth in a vision granted by the Three Witches, wherein Macbeth sees a long line of kings descended from Banquo.

Macbeth and Banquo Meeting the Three Witches by John Wootton

* Two Witches, a Finnish Gothic rock band, created a song in the early 1990s called " Mircalla ", inspired by the novel.

* Dianic Witches, who may have been inspired by Z Budapest, the New York Redstocking's W. I. T. C. H.

Doreen Valiente, one of Gardner's priestesses, later identified the woman who initiated Gardner as Dorothy Clutterbuck, referenced in A Witches ' Bible by Janet and Stewart Farrar.

Gardner seems not to have been confident writing original poetry, and instead borrowed and wove together appropriate material from other artists and occultists, most notably Crowley, Charles Godfrey Leland's Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, the Key of Solomon as published by S. L.

Francisco de Goya's Witches ' Sabbath ( 1789 ) | Witches Sabbat ( 1789 ), which depicts the Devil flanked by Satanic witches.

Macbeth and Banquo with the Witches by Henry Fuseli

" Pagan " as a self-designation appeared in 1964 and 1965, in the publications of the Witchcraft Research Association ; at that time, the term was in use by " revivalist Witches " in the United States and the United Kingdom, but unconnected to the broader, counter-culture Pagan movement.

Being an Exact and True account ( by way of Journal ) of the various actions of infernal Spirits or ( Devils Incarnate ) Witches or both: and the great Disturbance and Amazement they gave to George Walton's family at a place called Great Island in the county of New Hampshire in New England, chiefly in throwing about ( by an Invisible hand ) Stones, Bricks, and Brick-Bats of all sizes, with several other things, as Hammers, Mauls, Iron-Crows, Spits, and other Utensils, as came into their Hellish minds, and this for space of a quarter of a year.

According to the Malleus Maleficarum, or " Witches ' Hammer ", written by Heinrich Kramer ( Insitoris ) in 1486, a succubus collects semen from the men she seduces.

Witches by Hans Baldung Grien ( Woodcut, 1508 )

It was a publication of the Catalan poem Les bruixes de Llers (" The Witches of Llers ") by his friend and schoolmate, poet Carles Fages de Climent.

The painting also is a plot element in The Witches of Chiswick by Robert Rankin.

In 1933, the Egyptologist Margaret Murray published the book, The God of the Witches, in which she theorised that Pan was merely one form of a horned god who was worshipped across Europe by a witch-cult.

Aradia ( possibly a corrupted form Erodiade, the Italian form of the name of Herodias ) is one of the principal figures in the American folklorist Charles Leland ’ s 1899 work Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, which he believed to be a genuine religious text used by a group of pagan witches in Tuscany, a claim that has subsequently been disputed by other folklorists and historians.

He said that the practice of Witches keeping such a book was ancient, and was practised by the Witch-cult throughout history.

This version of the ritual, written by both Gardner and Valiente, but containing sections adopted from various sources, such as Aleister Crowley, Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, and even Rudyard Kipling, went on to become the traditional text for Gardnerian Wicca.

Much of it was published by the Farrars in their 1984 book The Witches ' Way.

In the Discworld novel Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett, one of the characters is a zombie by the name of Baron Saturday, who is the former ruler of the fictional country of Genua.