* Mages of Verbena are blood-shamans, healers and primordial witches and warlocks.

Dark Shadows also featured werewolves, zombies, man-made monsters, witches, warlocks, time travel, and a parallel universe.

According to their book, demons did not feel love for warlocks or witches.

It was considered that demons always had sexual relationships with witches and warlocks in the form of incubi and succubae, and some witches had sexual intercourse with a male goat, as it was supported by Pierre de Rostegny.

To this end it came to be believed that imps were the familiar spirit servants of witches and warlocks, where the little demons served as spies and informants.

* Famous playwright Pierre Corneille's lesser-known but classic tragedies, Médée ( 1635 ) and Circé ( 1675 ), popularized warlocks and witches as the deus ex machina of French theater.

These will be quite familiar to people in the west, as they go by many terms such as witches, warlocks, wizards, and all other European-influenced symbols of magery.

This event, based upon children's stories told by a local woman to her children in the 1930s and ' 40s, has grown into a local tradition, with hundreds of families migrating up the mountain to see actors re-enact tales of witches and warlocks.

Other terms are brujo (' bruho ' for warlocks ) and bruja (' bruha ' for witches ), which are from the Spanish language.

It was considered that all witches and warlocks had made a pact with some demon, especially with Satan.

After the testing, a magus who is powerful in the mystery of fire is taken to a place known only as the Mountain to begin training as one of the Duuk-tsarith ( warlocks and witches ).

He brought Gaspurotto with him, who readily furnished more information in front of the Inquisitor, relating that after taking part in their games, " the witches, warlocks and vagabonds " would pass in front of people's houses, looking for " clean, clear water " that they would then drink.

Like Galanthis, Historis announced that Alcmene had delivered her child ; having been deceived, the witches went away, allowing Alcmene to give birth.

Sometimes those found with grimoires, particularly of a demonological nature, were prosecuted and dealt with as witches, but in most cases those accused had no access to such books.

Following the writings of suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage and others, Margaret Murray, in her 1921 book The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, proposed the theory that the witches of the early-modern period were remnants of a pagan cult and that the Christian Church had declared the god of the witches was in fact the Devil.

Most notable is the inclusion of two songs from Thomas Middleton's play The Witch ( 1615 ); Middleton is conjectured to have inserted an extra scene involving the witches and Hecate, for these scenes had proven highly popular with audiences.

According to Heinsohn and Steiger's theory, the state persecuted the midwives as witches in an effort to repopulate the European continent which had suffered severe loss of manpower as a result of the bubonic plague which had swept over the continent in waves, starting in 1348.

At one point she is arguing that witches went to their meetings on foot or on horseback in a quite non-magical way, and quotes from the well-known confession of Isobel Gowdie: " I had a little horse, and would say ' Horse and Hattock, in the Devil's name!

Then, five pages later, she quotes the same passage again, but this time in full, straw and all, to show how witches had hallucinations of flight ( Murray 1921, 105-6 ); she does not realise that she has thereby wrecked her previous rationalistic interpretation of the passage.

Folklorist Sabina Magliocco supported this idea, noting that a great many of those Californian Pagans whom she interviewed claimed that they had been greatly interested in mythology and folklore as children, imagining a world of " enchanted nature and magical transformations, filled with lords and ladies, witches and wizards, and humble but often wise peasants.

He had a deep hatred and detestation of homosexuality, which he regarded as a disgusting perversion and a flagrant transgression of natural law .... ' There are no homosexual witches, and it is not possible to be a homosexual and a witch ' Gerald almost shouted.

In Russian folklore, vampires were said to have once been witches or people who had rebelled against the Russian Orthodox Church while they were alive.

Historians of European witchcraft have found the anthropological definition difficult to apply to European and British witchcraft, where " witches " could equally use ( or be accused of using ) physical techniques, as well as some who really had attempted to cause harm by thought alone.

Claims of " sorcerer " witches and " supernatural " witches could arise out of social tensions, but not exclusively ; the supernatural witch in particular often had nothing to do with communal conflict, but expressed tensions between the human and supernatural worlds ; and in Eastern and Southeastern Europe such supernatural witches became an ideology explaining calamities that befell entire communities.

Throughout this time, it was increasingly believed that Christianity was engaged in an apocalyptic battle against the Devil and his secret army of witches, who had entered into a diabolical pact.

Many English " witches " convicted of consorting with demons seem to have been cunning folk whose fairy familiars had been demonised ; many French devins-guerisseurs (" diviner-healers ") were accused of witchcraft, and over one half the accused witches in Hungary seem to have been healers.

Poetry and fiction involving the supernatural had gone out of fashion to a large extent in the 18th century, in part due to the declining belief in witches and other supernatural agents among the educated classes, who embraced the rational approach to the world offered by the new science.

Afterward, Khayman, who had been turned into a vampire by Akasha, comes to the witches ' cell and turns them too.

The persecution of witches began in 1563, and hundreds were executed, although there was nothing like the frenzy on the Continent Mary had tried her hand at an aggressive anti-Protestant Inquisition and was hated for it ; it was not to be repeated.

Centuries ago, Sir Rupert Murgatroyd, the first Baronet of Ruddigore, had persecuted witches.

Although his own book had been put together with the help of Doreen Valiente and included material from a variety of modern sources, ( notably from Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches and the writings of Aleister Crowley ) it also included sections written in an antique ( or mock-antique ) style, including advice for witches brought to trial and tortured.

Gardner claimed that these sections were genuinely historical in origin, and that witches had not been allowed to write anything down until recently, to avoid incrimination ; when at last Books of Shadows were allowed, the rituals and spells had to be written in a jumbled manner to prevent any non-initiate from using them.

Several foundlings appear in Terry Pratchett's Discworld: most notably Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson ( found as a toddler among the ruins of a caravan party attacked by bandits, surrounded by the bodies of the adults ; Carrot was adopted and raised by the dwarfs who discovered him, and was surprised to learn at age 16-and 6ft 6in tall-that he was not a dwarf ; mounting evidence suggests that Carrot is the scion of the deposed Ankh-Morpork royal family, but he himself has suppressed this as much as possible, considering the role of police captain to be a preferable one in which to safeguard his city and keep order ), also Tomjohn ( rightful heir to the throne of Lancre, rescued from his father's killer by loyal servants, entrusted to the local witches and given to travelling actors to raise ; Tomjohn eventually returns to the kingdom, but does not wish to rule it, preferring to remain an actor ) and Keith ( The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents-ironically, Malicia, obsessed with fairytales, is certain that this makes him likely to be a prince, but Keith explains that it is common in the city to abandon babies outside the Guilds where they are likely to receive care and training in a trade ).

Giant shadows that seemed to move by themselves due to movement of the cloud layer ( this movement is another part of the definition of the Brocken Spectre ), and that were surrounded by optical glory halos, may have contributed to the reputation the Harz mountains hold as a refuge for witches and evil spirits.

He claimed it was revealed to him by a coven of witches in the New Forest area of southern England.

They regulate an under-age wizard's or witch's use of magic and prohibit wizards and witches from performing magic in the presence of Muggles or in a Muggle-inhabited area in the Harry Potter universe.

The girls named three townswomen as witches-Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osbourne ; Tituba confessed to having seen the devil and also stated that there was a coven of witches in the Salem Village area.

The witches leave the area only during Easter in order to spook children.

For example, witches, as well as humans who commit to becoming shamans, must endure grueling, ritualistic ordeals that involve leaving their dæmon for a time as they embark on a spiritual quest, crossing an area of death where nothing may grow or live and leaving the dæmon behind.

The chase leads them to Jared's boyhood home where he discovers that Dorothea's forces have already killed all of the witches in the area and most of his family, including his parents.

The " soft " geology of the area is, according to some mountain witches, not conducive to the channelling of magic.

There are some themed trails in the surrounding area, for instance a witches ' trail tracing past legends ; a panoramic trail in front of the Tyrolese limestone alps ; or a mile's barefoot hiking trail featuring opportunities for different kinds of sensory experience.

Witch smellers, almost always women, were important and powerful people amongst the Zulu and other Bantu speaking peoples of Southern Africa, responsible for rooting out evil witches in the area, and sometimes responsible for considerable bloodshed themselves.

The road and the land around it have gained notoriety over the years as an area rife with many legends of paranormal occurrences such as sightings of ghosts, strange creatures and gatherings of witches, Satanists and the Ku Klux Klan.

Within the area of the Manderscheider counties, approximately 260 people were executed as witches between 1528 and 1641.

The " witches " held their covens on the Auld Kirk Green, part of the modern-day North Berwick Harbour area.

As his eldest son sleeps with his pretty young wife and his daughter seeks out her favorite hairy-chested servant for comfort, Lord Whitman begins mumbling that he wants to " clean up " the witches in the area, especially " that decrepit old bag, Oona.

The New Forest coven were a group of Neopagan witches or Wiccans who allegedly met around the area of the New Forest in southern England during the 1930s and 1940s.

Upon arriving at the ruinous city, Severian sees a pair of witches initiate a dream-like event in which ghostly dancers of the stone town's past fill the area and engage with the witch's ' servant, who is actually Vodalus's lieutenant Hildegrin.

Ginzburg noted that whether the benandanti were themselves witches or not was an area of confusion in the earliest records.