Search results for "Witch" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Apuleius, in The Golden Ass, describes the witch Meroe and her sister as Lamiae: The Elizabethan translator William Adlington rendered lamiae ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 20:54, 22 October 2022
- *Hamamelis (Witch-hazel) * *Hebe (Hebe)*Hedera (Ivy) *Helianthemum (Rockrose) *Hibiscus (Hibiscus) * *Hippophae (Sea-buckthorn) * *Hoheria (Lacebark) * ...10 KB (1,205 words) - 14:30, 27 January 2023
- of being a persecutor of witches during the Salem Witch Trials. Bradstreet was highly educated for the time, and her early poetry, although considered ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 01:58, 26 June 2021
- and chai hu (Bupleurum chinense) (Longe 2005). Witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) is used in the West to alleviate rubella symptoms and an eyewash ...11 KB (1,629 words) - 19:46, 20 August 2022
- Although Agnes remained a virgin, she was now condemned as a witch and led out tied to a stake to be burned. However, the bundle of wood would ...11 KB (1,796 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8441813.stm Witch-doctors reveal extent of ... of the client and greed on the part of the witch doctor has created a ready ...43 KB (6,539 words) - 15:29, 10 December 2023
- Dorothy awakens and is greeted by a good witch named Glinda, who explains ... despite the best efforts of the Wicked Witch. Dorothy is initially denied ...117 KB (17,054 words) - 12:48, 4 June 2023
- that all statements about witches, such as “every witch owns a broomstick,” are descriptive—purport to state facts. Moreover, accounting for the ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 12:33, 21 January 2023
- There is also an entry in the Malleus Maleficarum regarding witch-archers that bears a surprising resemblance to the story of William Tell, telling ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 20:35, 13 May 2023
- spread stories among the natives that she was a witch woman who would curse them and rumors began that she tortured them. She had declared a war. ...13 KB (1,888 words) - 11:53, 29 January 2024
- #039;s Manhattan office, warning of a new wave of witch hunts and McCarthyism, but this time in the Soviet Union, which he had visited only a few months ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 08:26, 7 December 2021
- [[Image:Saul-Witch.jpg|thumb|250px|The medium of Endor contacts the ... Saul's decision to consult the "witch" of Endor. ...26 KB (4,275 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- *"The Witch" *"What A Thought" ==Awards== *1960 National Book Award nomination: The Haunting of Hill House *1962 One of Times ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 14:20, 27 January 2023
- Miller traveled to Salem, Massachusetts to research the witch trials of 1692. The Crucible, a parable play in which Miller likened the situation ...28 KB (4,477 words) - 11:12, 16 August 2023
- by the Protestant Reformation led to an upswing in witch-hunting, especially in Germany, England, and Scotland. ===Magic in the twentieth century=== ...35 KB (5,255 words) - 10:49, 9 March 2023
- The Epistle to the Galatians is a book of the New Testament. It is a letter from Paul of Tarsus to a number of early Christian communities in ...16 KB (2,432 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- briefly appeared to Saul when summoned by the witch of Endor. Parts of the New Testament can be read as drawing a distinction between Sheol, the common ...14 KB (2,171 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- screech owl, which also came to mean demon or witch. There are different ... who was looked upon by a vampire or a witch. Moreover, being bitten by ...26 KB (4,074 words) - 01:36, 18 April 2023
- concepts of the formation of the earth in a witch's cauldron, a large model of Paleozoic insects the size of chickens in their environment ...29 KB (4,459 words) - 16:38, 10 December 2023
- a young girl, very spontaneous and intuitive, as a witch, or as the earth mother. It is likely to be associated with deep emotionality and the force ...15 KB (2,390 words) - 22:33, 7 January 2024
