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  Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Witches are traditionally stereotyped as being female, however their male equivalents were also often referred to as witches.
The witches or wizards addicted to such practices were alleged to reject Jesus and the sacraments, observe "the witches' sabbath" (performing infernal rites which often parodied the Mass or other sacraments of the Church), pay Divine honour to the Prince of Darkness, and, in return, receive from him preternatural powers.
It was believed that a witch often joined a pact with the devil to gain powers to deal with infertility, immense fear for her children's well-being, or revenge against a lover.
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  Witchcraft - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
Witches were believed to create figures in clay, wax, or from rags, to represent people, and the actions performed upon these figures were believed to be transferred to the subject.
Necromancy, the conjuring of the spirits of the dead, is also regarded as a typical witchcraft practice; the Biblical 'Witch' of Endor is supposed to have performed it, and it is among the witchcraft practices condemned by Aelfric.
When a person was known to be a witch, the populace would still seek to employ their healing skills; however, as was not the case with cunning-folk, members of the general population would also hire witches to curse their enemies.
www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/Witch   (3615 words)

  
 List of fictional witches - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A list of fictional characters who are witches.
Elphaba the Wicked Witch of the West in Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Sabrina, the Teenage Witch)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_fictional_witches   (307 words)

  
 Fictional character information - Search.com
The opposite of a fictional character is a nonfictional character.
The most extreme ways of reading fictional characters would be to think of them exactly as real people or to think of them as purely artistic creations that have everything to do with craft and nothing to do with real life.
Some fictional characters are so famous that they can be referenced easily outside of the work from which they came, often because they have come to symbolize some archetype or ideal.
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 Archive of fictional things - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
This is a (theoretically) all-encompassing list of fictional things created in the media.
List of fictional people known by one name
List of television shows set in Washington, D.C. See also: List of movies for a list of movies set in specific locations
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 Witchcraft - RecipeFacts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Belief in witches of this sort have been common among the indigenous populations of the world, including Africa, Asia and the Americas.
Witches have come more into the mainstream in the last few decades, now seen often as common pop-culture figures.
There are other Pagan witches, "Hindu witches", "Buddhist witches", etc. who also practice witchcraft; however, Christians usually do not practice witchcraft because of their beliefs being against "sorcery" as noted in the Bible.
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 Witch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
If the dreamer is a woman, dreaming of a witch could represent her own senex, or that part of her psyche that is older and wiser.
If the witch is friendly in the dream, whether the dreamer is a man or a woman, it augurs an increased social life.
The word witch is usually used to describe a mean and heartless person, and in your dream you may be making associations in regard to yourself or someone else that fits that description.
www.experiencefestival.com /witch   (1507 words)

  
 Category:Lists of fictional characters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of fictional characters on the autistic spectrum
List of vampires from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
List of mythical and religious beings appearing in fictional context
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 Witchcraft at Efari United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Under the monotheism religions of the Levant (primarily Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), witchcraft came to be associated with heresy, rising to a fever pitch among the Catholics, Protestants, and secular leadership of the European Late Medieval/Early Modern period.
Present-day beliefs about the witches of history attribute to them elements of the folklore witch, the charmer, the cunning man or wise woman, the diviner and the Astrology.
Witches have come into the mainstream in the last decade as well as common portrayals bear little relationship to Wicca, or even a Christian view of witches.
www.efari.co.uk /social-sciences/american-history/witchcraft.html   (3596 words)

  
 Share and Discover witchcraft Bio, Pictures, News at BlinkBits.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
St. Boniface declared in the eighth century that belief in witches is unchristian.
The whole narrative of Saul's visit to the witch of En Dor (I Samuel 28) implies belief in the reality of the witch's evocation of the shade of Samuel.
However, the witch responds with shocked surprise at the manifestation, denoting that the witch had actually expected something different -- presumably either nothing real at all or a lying ("familiar") spirit.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/witchcraft   (4113 words)

  
 Witchcraft - Psychology Central
Belief in witches of this sort has been common among the indigenous populations of the world, including Africa, Asia and the Americas.
The folk magic used to identify or protect against witches is often indistinguishable from that used by the witches themselves.
Boniface declared in the eighth century that belief in witches is unchristian.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Witch   (3719 words)

  
 Witch Myths in Fiction
This is a list I've compiled of common myths about witches and how they appear in contemporary fiction.
It's a slightly different list from the fictional universes from the vampire and shapeshifter pages.
Witches are inherently resistant to magic (that is, without casting a spell).
www.eclipse.net /~srudy/myths/witch_myths.html   (546 words)

  
 The Misconceptions of Witches :: Paganality.com :: (yes, it's magik :)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The whole idea of good Witches with white magic and bad Witches with fl magic is a huge misconception, just like the myth of the good guys with white hats and the bad guys with the fl hats.
It is more than a little insulting when your beloved accuses you of casting a spell to make him or her fall in love with you, as though your appearance and personality were so dreadful that you had to resort to magical coercion to find a mate.
Witch burnings, though a thing of the past, are still rather fresh in the Pagan memory.
www.paganality.com /print.php?sid=12918   (1301 words)

  
 Fictional character - Psychology Central
The opposite of a fictional character is a nonfictional character.
A prominent example of this approach is Being John Malkovich, in which the actor John Malkovitch plays the actor John Malkovitch (though the real actor and the character have different middle names).
Some fictional characters are so famous that they can be referenced easily outside of the work from which they came, often because they have come to symbolize some archetype or ideal.
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 Thousands of FANTASY NAMES - fairy, gnomes, elves, goblins, mystical, magic demons, vampires, witches, dragons, beasts, ...
A list of the Rulers of NĂºmenor, a fictional realm by J. Tolkien.
List of names and descriptions of sundry creatures, some of which are illustrated
A list of characters that have appeared in a fighting capacity (ie.
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 Learn more about Cat in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
They regarded cats as embodiments of the goddess Bast, also known as Bastet or Thet; the penalty for killing a cat was death, and when a cat died it was sometimes mummified in the same way as a human.
In the Middle Ages, though, cats were often thought to be witches' familiars, and durring festivitys were sometimes burnt alive or thrown off tall buildings.
Today some people believe that white cats are unlucky, or that it is unlucky if a fl cat crosses your path, but others believe that fl cats are lucky.
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Nicole, a destructive, mentally ill woman in Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is often seen as a fictionalized version of Fitzgerald's wife Zelda.
Some fictional characters are so famous that they can be references easily outside of the work from which they came, often because they have come to symbolize some archetype or ideal.
A fictional character is any person who appears in...
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 Top 50 TV Shows of All Time From TV Guide
An innovative look at the life of fictional Mafia Capo Tony Soprano, this serial is presented largely first person, but additional perspective is conveyed by the intimate conversations Tony has with his psychotherapist.
Samantha, a powerful member of the society of witches that has lived apart from (and disdained) humanity for many centuries, falls in love with a mortal, Darrin Stephens.
Never able to give up her heritage completely, the friction between the matriarchal, moneyless society of her birth and the patriarchal, capitalist society of modern advertising drives the comedy over eight seasons and 256 episodes, from 1964 to 1971.
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 Fictional character
In film, the appearance of a real person as himself inside of a fictional story is called a cameo.
One of the earliest novels to use this trick was Niebla (Fog) by Miguel de Unamuno (1907).
At first the main character explains that it is a wrong number, but eventually he decides to pretend to be Auster and see where it leads him.
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 cars - Archive of fictional things
This is a (theoretically) all-encompassing list of fictional things created in the media.
List of gay, lesbian, or bisexual figures in fiction and myth
List of television shows set in Washington, D.C. See also: Lists of television shows by city setting; and List of movies for a list of movies set in specific locations.
www.carluvers.com /cars/Archive_of_fictional_things   (401 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Witches of Eastwick: Books: John Updike
Aside from basic plot of "three witches in the town of Eastwick fall under the influence of a new man in town", the book and the movie have almost nothing in common.
It was almost as if, we had three different women, who just happened to be witches and we were given a look into how they would react if they really could make someone's life a living hell.
It also seemed to be common knowledge that the three were witches and no one seemed to think that unusual.
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They are listed in the order by which they were written.
English Castles - Explains why English castles were built and has a long list of the most important English castles and their location.
The Crusades - Provides a list of all the crusades as well as their benefits and disadvantages.
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The existence of the registration lists enabled police to send out threatening letters to gun owners demanding that they surrender what had been, until that time, their legal property, without compensation.
Police even went door-to-door demanding that gun owners turn over their weapons, even though they had not been found guilty of committing any crime (other than that they were violating the "gun control" law), and many of the guns which were prohibited cost several hundred, or even thousands of dollars.
Registration lists, in other countries, while produced with perhaps the best intentions, have later been used by tyrannical governments to disarm political opponents or targeted minorities, such as happened with registration lists generated by the Weimar Republic when the Nazis came to power in Germany.
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 The Absolutely Weird Bookshelf, 100 Best Horror Novels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Picking the 100 best horror novels is, in fact, a bit harder that the 100 best science fiction books (there's pretty good consensus on this list) or the 100 best fantasy books (there's a lot of leeway for choice here).
Horror spans more categories of fiction, involving all the major genres, as well as being a subset of "real" literature.
Jones and Newman (a major horror writer in his own right) do a pretty good job, quibbleable as is to be expected, but offering a good basic list of horror novels, with the added bonus of brief commentaries on the works by important writers.
www.strangewords.com /weirdbooks/horror100.html   (1854 words)

  
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Purebreds are less than one percent of the total feline population; cats of mixed ancestry are referred to as domestic longhair cat domestic longhairs and domestic shorthair cat domestic shorthairs.
There are List of cat breeds dozens of breeds of domestic cats, some Sphynx (cat) hairless or Manx (cat) tailless, and they exist in a variety of different colors including multicolored.
In the Middle Ages, cats were often thought to be witches' familiars (e.g.
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 Archive of fictional things - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
List of campaign settings from Dungeons & Dragons;
List of television shows set in Washington, D.C
See also: List of movies for a list of movies set in specific locations
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 The Da Vinci Hoax by Robert M. Price   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
It is a fictional narrative, but its author claims it is based on fact.
It is difficult to tell, precisely as in the case of the so-called witches persecuted in Europe.
And it is only this false source that lists the great artist Da Vinci as one of the Grand Masters of the secret order.
www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com /dvhoax.htm   (2710 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Banned Books
But one thing is certain: A real witch is the most dangerous of all living creatures.
In the traditional folktale of 'Sleeping Beauty,' the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince.
Set in a fictional Oregon town in the late 1960s, Cody's superlative coming-of-age novel is the story of Wade, Lorna and Jesse — teenagers preparing to break out of their small-town lives.
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 RUSS277 - Gogol: Witches, Con Men and Runaway Noses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Close reading and analysis of the fictional and dramatic works of Nikolai Gogol (1809-52), who along with Alexander Pushkin dominated the Russian literary scene of the first half of the nineteenth century.
Gogol created a phantasmagorical world of devils and witches coexisting with the gritty details of life in St. Petersburg and the Russian provinces.
His satirical observations delighted socially-conscious contemporary critics, while his linguistic experimentation and subversion of the rules of l ogic inspired modernist writers at the beginning of the twentieth century.
www.wesleyan.edu /wesmaps/course0102/russ277s.htm   (249 words)

  
 Share and Discover harry potter Bio, Pictures, News at BlinkBits.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Readers of classic fantasy fiction have noted a very strong resemblance between the premise of Harry Potter and Ursula K. LeGuin's A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), in which a boy with unusual gifts of magic is recognised and sent to a special school for wizards.
Eleanor Estes was apparently the first, in her book ''The Witch Family'' (1960), and The Worst Witch series follows the same line.
In the long-running 1960s TV series Bewitched, several of the older witches are very like those described in the Potter books, and Samantha Stephens's Aunts Hagatha and Enchantra are explicitly described as running a school for witches.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/harry_potter   (4399 words)

  
 Archive of fictional things   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
List of gay, lesbian, or bisexual figures in fiction and myth
List of plays and musicals set in New York City
List of television shows set in Washington, D.C. See also: Lists of television shows by city setting; and List of movies for a list of movies set in specific locations.
www.free-download-soft.com /info/cruises-cruises-from-charleston.html   (370 words)

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