Sentence examples for concepts of witches from inspiring English sources

Possible examples include the concepts of witches, ghosts, and phlogiston.

(Why not "witches warbling" or "witches whispering" instead of "witches witching"?) But the bats wearing baseball caps, the eyeball flowers and the corpses caroling are wickedly original.

Do the terrifying hallucinations of the nightmare, being ridden and suffocated by a malign presence, play a part in generating our concepts of demons and witches or malignant aliens?

It can mean "poisoner" or "astrologer," and has nothing to do with the Christian concept of a witch that the settlers in Salem adopted from Europe's deadly period of persecutions against alleged witches.

There is little doubt that some individuals did worship the devil and attempt to practice sorcery with harmful intent; however, no one ever embodied the concept of a "witch" as previously described.

Anglo-Saxon England was more preoccupied by the idea of witches descending onto the helpless sleepers trapped in their beds, a concept which entered our lexicon through the word "haggard", meaning to be "ridden by the hag".

Of Witches... Running an Errand".

Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft.

By 2013, Mr. Bishop made the cover of Witches & Pagans magazine.

The magic of witches' brooms is thus demystified.

Witches' sabbath, nocturnal gathering of witches, a colourful and intriguing part of the lore surrounding them in Christian European tradition.