In the late 1960s the term came into use as the title of a modern pagan movement associated with witchcraft. The first printed reference in this usage seems to be 1969, in "The Truth About Witchcraft" by freelance author Hans Holzer: ...
cauldron: a large, round pot used for boiling things, often associated with witches. crypt: an underground room where people are buried, usually beneath a church. enigma: something mysterious and difficult to understand. gargoyle: a stone statue of a strange creature, often found on old building...
Though often associated with magic and witchcraft, a wand can also represent a symbol of power, though often on a smaller and less formal scale than a scepter. Its smaller size and less elaborate design suggests a perhaps less weighty authority, or one wielded in a differen...
Often associated with witches. cache A hidden treasure. cachet A mark of distinction, a stamp of approval by a recognized authority. cachinate To laugh too loud or too hard. Much more than a giggle, and with a bit of unnatural excess, such as nervous laughter after hearing bad news. ca...
To speak to the idea that a “warlock is one who has betrayed a coven,” there is simply no primary source material for this in either Witchcraft or Wicca. For much of its history, the word was associated with male Witches and was considered as pejorative as “Witch” was. Oddly, thoug...
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As a contemptuous term for an old woman, it is perhaps a suggestion of witchcraft (comparefly-by-night), or frombatas "prostitute who plies her trade by night" [Farmer, who calls it "old slang" and finds French equivalent "night swallow" (hirondelle de nuit) "more poetic"]. ...
A tasting menu of vivid flavor descriptions. Milk that's blinky. Tea that's brisk. And meat that's well-hung.
笤帚tiáozhou 原指用细竹枝束成的扫地用具,现常指用已脱粒的高粱穗或黍子穗等扎成的扫地、除尘用具。 The broom is also a symbolic object associated with witchcraft and ceremonial magic. Ceremonial magic (ritual magic, high magic or learned magic) encompasses a wide variety of long, elaborate, and...
[-ANA] publications or other items concerning or associated with Shakespeare E18.* Shakespearianism noun (a) a form of expression peculiar to or imitated from Shakespeare; (b) the imitation of Shakespeare, Shakespeare's influence on literature or drama: E19.* Shakespearianly adverb in a ...