Sentence examples for word witch from inspiring English sources

The word "witch" crops up endlessly in the six blocks that once formed the colonial Salem.

The word "witch" stands in for the Hebrew word kashaph, which appears twelve times in the Old Testament.

Is there a more fitting place to spend Halloween than a town where at least half a dozen attractions begin with the word "witch"?

"To reclaim the word witch is to reclaim our right, as women, to be powerful," wrote Starhawk, in her seminal 1979 book The Spiral Dance.

The word "witch" comes up remarkably often in relation to this particular hairstyle (although grey-haired supermodel Kristen McMenamy is classed as a "good witch" for some reason).

But as Alison Lurie once pointed out, just the word "witch," applied to an allegedly good character, once held enough menace for Baum to be forced to change it (Glinda is called a "sorceress").

For Corrag, words are as important as places and, throughout the novel, several words, "witch" among them, are weighted with particular significance.

This is why the words "witch hunt" get bandied around at times like this, because it does seem crazy when you start pointing it all out, seems beyond belief really, that so many men are implicated.

Carrington's Kron Flower (1987), painted when she was 70, is a play on the word crone, and shows three witch-like, black-clad old women, their faces cracked like the fractured pavement beneath them, examining a flower that has sprung miraculously through the concrete.

In 1932 Lewis Spence writes in The Weekly Scotsman, in response to the popularisation of Margaret Murray's witch-cult hypothesis in Scotland, that "the Saxon word 'wicca', a witch" was "of immemorial usage" in the Scottish Lowlands.

(In the context of German-occupied Denmark, imagine the word "Jew" for "witch").