TikTok, with its 49 million daily users in the US, is impossibly diverse, a home for comedians and singers and witches and police officers and protesters.
How a TikTok house destroyed itself|Rebecca Jennings|October 1, 2020|Vox
Mulan runs away from home to take her father’s place in the army and fight a powerful witch.
Women like Mulan didn’t need to go to war in disguise|Bethany Brookshire|September 4, 2020|Science News For Students
Breitbart forced her to correct a small part of her story, but witch hunts like these will leave every victim cowering.
The Right's Rape Trolls vs. Lena Dunham|Emily Shire|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She faces a jury of famous villains and a judge from the Salem witch trials.
Election Day Is Scarier Than Halloween|P. J. O’Rourke|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Likewise, pressure must be placed on Egypt to abandon its witch hunt of the Muslim Brotherhood.
To Beat ISIS, the Arab World Must Promote Political and Religious Reforms|Rula Jebreal|September 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Opponents of same-sex marriage say that even liberals have started to feel the effects of the witch hunt.
The Coming Gay Marriage Witch Hunt|David Freedlander|June 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The film will feature two new songs: one called “Rainbows,” and another for the Witch.
‘Into the Woods’ Gets Disney-ed: Sondheim Confirms Movie Changes to His Musical|Tim Teeman|June 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
No doubt the party indicated as the witch was very often another of the "good witches," perhaps a rival.
A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718|Wallace Notestein
The witch goes up in the air with the fire, and nobody sees her any more.
Basque Legends|Wentworth Webster
The only physician of the people for a thousand years was the Witch.
La Sorcire: The Witch of the Middle Ages|Jules Michelet
Firstly, we find her as the beautiful and accomplished daughter of the witch, playing the part of a Medea, without her cruelty.
Kalevala, Volume I (of 2)|Anonymous
In fact she was proud to make her neighbours believe her to be a witch.
Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Second Series|William Bottrell
British Dictionary definitions for witch (1 of 3)
witch1
/ (wɪtʃ) /
noun
historically, in mythology and fiction, a woman believed to practise magic or sorcery, esp black magic
a practitioner of a Nature-based religion founded on ancient beliefs, which honours both a male and female divine principle and includes the practice of magic, esp healing magic, and divination
informal, derogatoryan ugly or wicked woman
a fascinating or enchanting woman
short for water witch
verb
(tr)to cause or change by or as if by witchcraft
a less common word for bewitch
Derived forms of witch
witchlike, adjective
Word Origin for witch
Old English wicca; related to Middle Low German wicken to conjure, Swedish vicka to move to and fro
British Dictionary definitions for witch (2 of 3)
witch2
/ (wɪtʃ) /
noun
a flatfish, Pleuronectes (or Glyptocephalus) cynoglossus, of N Atlantic coastal waters, having a narrow greyish-brown body marked with tiny black spots: family Pleuronectidae (plaice, flounders, etc)
Word Origin for witch
C19: perhaps from witch1, alluding to the appearance of the fish
British Dictionary definitions for witch (3 of 3)
witch-
wych-
prefix
having pliant brancheswitchweed
Word Origin for witch-
Old English wice and wic; probably from Germanic wik- bend