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witch hazel witch hazel
witch hazel common name for some members of the Hamamelidaceae, a family of trees and shrubs found mostly in Asia. The family includes the large genus ( Corylopsis ) of winter hazels, and the witch hazels (genus Hamamelis ), sweet gums ( Liquidambar ), and witch elders ( Fothergilla ), the latter... Read more
witch witch
witch a person, typically a woman, who practises magic or sorcery and was traditionally thought to have evil magic powers; such witches are popularly depicted as wearing a black cloak and pointed hat, and flying on a broomstick, and are associated with Halloween.In the Middle Ages and the 16th and... Read more
witches butter witches butter
Butter, Witches' According to old superstition, the devil gave the witches of Sweden cats, which were called carriers, because they were sent by their mistresses to steal in the neighborhood. On such occasions, the greedy animals could not resist satisfying their own appetites. Sometimes they ate... Read more
Salem Witchcraft Trials Mass. Ct. Oyer Terminer 1692-1693 Salem Witchcraft Trials Mass. Ct. Oyer Terminer 1692-1693
SALEM WITCH TRIALS In 1692 the community of Salem, Massachusetts, was engulfed in a series of witchcraft afflictions, accusations, trials, and executions. During the course of the year, more than a dozen persons claimed to be afflicted by spells of black magic and sorcery that had been allegedly... Read more
exorcism exorcism
exorcism , ritual act of driving out evil demons or spirits from places, persons, or things in which they are thought to dwell. It occurs both in primitive societies and in the religions of sophisticated cultures. The term is applied to all those acts that seek to dispel or frighten away demons or... Read more
Hekla Hekla
Hekla , volcano, c.4,900 ft (1,490 m) high, SW Iceland; one of the highest in Europe. Since the early 11th cent. more than 20 eruptions have been recorded; the worst occurred in 1766 and the most recent in 1947. Hekla emits steam and has several crater lakes. In medieval Icelandic folklore Hekla was... Read more
Broomstick Broomstick
Broomstick Witches were said to ride through the air on switches or broomsticks on their nocturnal journey to the Sabbat. Various other mounts were supposed to be used by witches, including a cleft stick, a staff, a distaff, or even a shovel. These objects were smeared with a special witchcraft ... Read more
Melissa Melissa
Melissa ♀ From the Greek word melissa ‘honey bee’. It is the name of the good witch who releases Rogero from the power of the bad witch Alcina in Ariosto's narrative poem Orlando Furioso (1532). The name was fairly popular in the 1990s, along with other girls’ names... Read more
hazel hazel
hazel any plant of the genus Corylus of the family Betulaceae ( birch family), shrubs or small trees with foliage similar to the related alders. They are often cultivated for ornament and for the edible nuts. Hazels are also called filberts, although the latter is more strictly a name for... Read more
Dowsing Dowsing
Dowsing The study and detection of human response to water, minerals, and other underground materials. Dowsing, or "water witching," is usually distinguished from the related subject of radiesthesia by its focus on nonliving materials such as water, metals, minerals, or buried objects. Both... Read more

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