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| | Warlock - Gurupedia |
 | | Warlocks are, among historic Christian traditions, said to be the male equivalent of witches (usually in the pejorative sense of Europe's Middle Ages), and were said to ride pitch-forks (six foot two-tined forks, for manoeuvering unbound hay) instead of broomsticks. |
 | | The Anglo-Saxon warlock was not considered good or evil; he was believed to be able to heal, to cause disease, to cast or break spells, and to divine past, present and future, all this mainly by means of the runes. |
 | | By extension, it became a synonym of sorcerer and wizard, and also of a typical medieval diabolical male witch (in this sense either able to fly in several ways, see |
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