Fair damosel, I will grant you, and sore I am of these queen-sorceresses afeard, for they have destroyed many a good knight.
The ancient Greeks knew these dangerous sorceresses by the name of lamiæ, and they believed that they devoured children, or sucked away all their blood till they died.
Witches and lewd sorceresses abound; the solitary inn has its weird seductions; the lonely country cottage has its tragedy of lawless love or of chaste devotion to the dead.
The romantic charm of travel in Greece was probably heightened for many by the tales of Thessalian brigands and sorceresses which meet us in the novel of Apuleius.
There is the picture entitled "The Sorceresses of San Milan" in which three old women are seen against a dramatic landscape.
And they began to fight with them; and one of the sorceresses slew one of Arthur's men before Peredur's face, and Peredur bade her forbear.
And she set up a cry, and desired the other sorceresses to flee, and told them that this was Peredur, the man who had learnt Chivalry with them, and by whom they were destined to be slain.
Then Arthur and his household fell upon the sorceresses, and slew the sorceresses of Gloucester every one.
This business over, she begged me to show her my picture-books, and was so amused with them that she ordered her sorceresses and all the other women in again to inspect them with her.
At the same time the grosser superstitions were rejected, and Rotharis forbade putting sorceresses to death, under the popular belief that they could devour men internally.
The Council of Pavia in 850 merely prescribed penance during life for sorceresseswho undertook to provoke love and hatred, leading to the death of many victims.
Thereupon she seized some women of Paris, and by scourging and torture forced them to confess themselvessorceresses who had caused numerous deaths, including that of Thierry, whose soul was accepted in place of that of Mummolus.
We have seen the belief in early times, and among races far apart, that sorceresses could gnaw and eat men internally, which probably arose from painful gastric maladies ascribed to sorcery.
Beaumanoir's assertion of ecclesiastical jurisdiction is confirmed by a contemporaneous decision of the Parlement of Paris in 1282, in the case of some women arrested as sorceresses in Senlis and tried by the maire and jurats.
She looked like all the sorceresses of Thessaly and Egypt in one, and, as Bulwer says of the Witch of Vesuvius, was all the more terrible for having been beautiful.
It is customary for all gypsy sorceresses to take those who are to be fortune-told aside, and, if possible, into a room by themselves.
He changed the Confucian temple into a play-house, drove out all the students from the dormitories and put diviners and sorceresses in their places.
He called to Song-do all the courtezans, sorceresses and female slaves and had them join in singing obscene songs for the delectation of his guests.
In the legend of the Alhambra, as told by Washington Irving, the astrologer warns the Moorish king that the beautiful damsel is no doubt one of those Gothic sorceresses of whom they have heard so much.
It was clearly proved also that the plants chiefly used by the sorceresses were rue and vervain.
Fair damsel I will grant you, and sore I am of these queens sorceresses afeard, for they have destroyed many a good knight.
The Inquisition of Saragossa condemned several sorceresses who had formed part of the association in Navarre, or had been sent into Aragon to gain disciples.
The history of the sorceresses of the valley of Bastan, in Navarre, has been particularly celebrated.
It appears that the Inquisition of Calahorra, burnt more than thirty women as sorceresses and magicians in the year 1507.
The little gypsy monster left by the sorceresses in Chantefleurie's chamber, in exchange for her daughter.
These sorceresses and male magicians are usually unscrupulous and immoral, and are often implicated, not only in the intrigues of the noblest families, but also in murders and other hideous crimes.
These witches and sorceresses are even more numerous than their male equivalents.
Even Luther believed in witches; he mentions incidentally that such a woman had injured his mother; and in another place was angry with the lawyers who did not punish similar sorceresseswhen they injured their fellow-creatures.
She was so fond of Monsieur de Richelieu, declared La Joly, one of the sorceresses tried by the court, 'that as soon as she knew that Monsieur de Richelieu was even looking at any one else, she thought of doing away with him.
The relations between the favourite and the sorceresses began, then, at the very time when her dawning love for the king was noticed.
It was proved to the commissioners that she had asked the sorceresses to poison the Duke de Bouillon or to procure his death by witchcraft.
Sorceresses and magicians thronged about the royal Court like swarms of wasps about a hive of honey.
When a Mancini only commits a folly like that, it is winked at; these sorceresses do the thing seriously, and horrify all Europe about a trifle.
The sorceresses had little lodgings at Saint-Germain, Fontainebleau, Versailles, around the palaces.
These pictures are still in existence,[18] and present to our eyes a curious representation, not only of the theatrical scenes of the eighteenth century, but also of the interior of the houses in which the sorceresses received their clients.
These two eminent sorceresses are in partnership, and drive a tolerably fair trade.
Then Arthur and his household fell upon the sorceresses, and slew the sorceresses of Gloucester every one And thus is it related concerning the Castle of Wonders.
And they began to fight with them, and one of the sorceresses slew one of Arthur's men before Peredur's face, and Peredur bade her forbear.
In the Mabinogi it is placed immediately after the hero's first encounter with the sorceresses of Gloucester: "by destiny and foreknowledge knew I that I should suffer harm of thee," says the worsted witch.
First encounter with the sorceresses of Gloucester, who are forced to desist from assailing hero's hostess.
It is impossible to explain the strong general similarity of outline with the equally marked divergences of detail (Sorceresses of Gloucester instead of Partinal, etc.
In so far as Gautier ends his castle; achievement of the Quest part of the story here with by destruction of sorceresses of the hero's second arrival at Gloucester.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sorceresses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
