Witch (disambiguation)

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A witch may be

• a practitioner of witchcraft.
• more loosely, any practicioner of magic
  • Sorcerer
  • Wizard
  • White witch
• the practicioner of a supposed historical religious Witch Cult
• a practicioner of neopagan contemporary Witchcraft
  • Stregheria
  • Wicca
• colloquially or figuratively, of certain aspects of the female gender role
  • the hag stock character
  • the femme fatale stock character

As a title or proper name:

Contents 1 Animals 2 Art and Popular Culture 3 Names of Organizations 4 Science and Technology 5 See also

[edit] Animals

• Witch (righteye flounder) (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus), a European flatfish.
• Witch (lefteye flounder) (Arnoglossus scapha), a Pacific flatfish.
• Megrim (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) is also sometimes known as witch.

[edit] Art and Popular Culture

• The Witch, a Russian fairy tale
• The Witch, a 1616 play by Thomas Middleton
• The Witches, a 1922 Danish film Häxan
• John Cranko's The Witch, a 1931 ballet to Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Major
• The Witch, a 1965 song by The Sonics
• Witches, witches as represented in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
• The Witches, a 1983 children's book by Roald Dahl
• The Witches, a 1990 film based on the book by Roald Dahl
• Witch, witches as represented in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Witch, an 1997 episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• W.I.T.C.H., a 2001 comic book
• W.I.T.C.H., a 2004 television series based on the eponymous comic book
• Witches, a 2004 supernatural comic book mini-series published by Marvel Comics
• Witch, a doom/stoner metal band formed in 2005
• The Witch, a side project of the band Cold started in 2006
• Witches, a 2010 video game

[edit] Names of Organizations

• The Night Witches, nickname of an all-woman Soviet Air Force unit in the Second World War
• WITCH, acronym of the Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, an American feminist organization

[edit] Science and Technology

• The WITCH, an early Dekatron computer renamed the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing from Harwell
• The WITCH experiment, a particle physics experiment.
• The Witch of Agnesi, a specific curve in mathematics

[edit] See also

• Witch (word)
• Witchcraft (disambiguation)
• Magician (disambiguation)
• Sorcerer (disambiguation)
• Warlock (disambiguation)

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