The wind howled, and shrieked, and moaned, and witches on broomsticks flew round and round the house and tapped noisily on our window-panes.
Goblins and witches and shrieks and moans and pitfalls and all uncanny weird things haunted the Black Forest of which we used to read years ago.
Sometimes, its like a Teate; sometimes but a Blewish Spot; sometimes a Red one; and sometimes the flesh Sunk: but the Witches do sometimes cover them.
Then de Haen defended the existence of demons, and Maerz, a well-known theological teacher, in 1760 devoted a book to witches and magic.
That witches were burned publicly is a matter of history, even in America.
From across the brook comes the unceasing cry of the Maryland yellow-throat, "Witches here!
They say that witches who compel to love Stick needles, thus, in images of wax, And every prick goes to a human heart To hinder or to quicken life that's real.
Footnote 3: Those who have witnessed the witches scampering off the stage, cannot forget the ludicrous appearance they make.
Lastly, the causes of the terror and interest which stories of ghosts and witches inspire, in early life at least, whether believed or not.
Warlocks and witches in a dance; Nae cotillion brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels Put life and mettle in their heels.
So Maggie runs, the witches follow, Wi' mony an eldritch[105] screech and hollow.
The Snow Witches did not follow into that shelter.
And just as Ivra and the Witches drifted out of sight, he thought he heard the Forest Children laughing.
He waved, calling, "Remember me to the Snow Witches when they come.
The Snow Witches would never let me keep curly hair," she said.
She told stories about Helma and Ivra, the Wind Creatures, the Snow Witches and many more.
On such wild days as this they usually play indoors, for they're little things and the Snow Witches love to tease them," said the Tree Man.
But he did not say it for he knew Ivra liked the Snow Witches almost best of all to play with and would miss them.
Every one was there, even the Snow Witches who had not been invited.
Though the others avoided the witches as much as they could they admired Ivra for such hardy comrading.
Then all the witches went screeching and swirling away through the forest, and Ivra, Eric and the others settled down to the business of eating the birthday cake.
When the Snow Witches saw Ivra running to them they rushed to meet her.
Then she tried sliding down on her feet, with the long line of witches pushing from behind, their hands on each other's shoulders.
Down in the pasture by the house half a dozen Snow Witches were dancing in a circle, now near, now far, all over the pasture, and sometimes right up to the farm-house windows.
From my childhood I was extremely inquisitive about witches and witch-stories.
His acquiescence is in exact analogy to the non-resistance of witches to the constituted powers.
At an earlier date he had spoken without any hesitation of the witches who ride “on goats and broom-sticks and travel on mantles.
Concerning the witches and their ways Luther’s works contain an extraordinary wealth of information.
It is his intention to show that the method of combating witches had made progress since Catholic times.
We see how the milk thieves and other witches often do great mischief” (1543).
The witches are the most credulous and docile tools of the devil; they are his hand and foot for the harm of mankind.
The most devoted servants of the devil are, according to him, the sorcerers and witches of whom there are many.
There are incubi and succubi amongst the devils,” who commit lewdness with witches and others.
Luther’s words and his views on witchesgenerally became immensely popular.
The invitation to persecute the witches was read in the German Table-Talk compiled by Aurifaber and published at Eisleben in 1566.
Thus the wickedness of the hearts of those putative witches was often paid for by a fearful death.
When the witches inside heard the call, a great and terrible cry broke from their lips, and they rushed forth with wild lamentations and shrieks, and fled away to Slievenamon, where was their chief abode.
Then the witches rushed through the air with great cries, and fled back to Slievenamon, uttering strange curses on the Spirit of the Well, who had wished their ruin.
Not long were thewitches in coming, and they raged and called for vengeance.
And so the knocks went on, and the call was heard and the witches entered, until at last twelve women sat round the fire--the first with one horn, the last with twelve horns.
This struck the worthy citizens of Clip as a good bargain; they gave the priest his field (it is still known as the Priest's Field, and is now used as a place for basket picnics) and forthwith the operations of the witches ceased.
The witches who resided in it developed the unpleasant custom of flying out at night and cutting pieces from the clothing of passers-by.
That's what all the witches say when you try to get them to do any life-lining.
As a surgeon who has done a lot of heart work, I want you in the heart clinic on the day these witches say you're going to be sick.
It will certainly make a lot of us feel better, and the worst that can happen is that you can tell both those witches they don't know the right time.
Somehow or other these PC witches have to act the part.
To prevent the absence of the witches from being noticed by their neighbours, some inferior demon was commanded to assume their shapes and lie in their beds, feigning illness, until the Sabbath was over.
Privy Council made a practice of granting commissions to resident gentlemen and ministers, in every part of Scotland, to examine, try, and executewitches within their own parishes.
These were believed to remain in the body till the witches confessed or were executed, when they were voided from the bowels, or by the mouth, nostrils, or ears.
As these witches had made an attempt upon his own life, it is not surprising, with his habits, that he should have watched the case closely, or become strengthened in his prejudice and superstition by its singular details.
Might not the great enemy have put false testimony into the mouths of the witnesses, or might not the witnesses bewitches themselves?
Fian then blew into the key-hole of the door, which opened immediately, and all the witches entered.
In 1579, so much alarm was excited in the neighbourhood of Melun by the increase of witchesand loup-garous, that a council was held to devise some measures to stay the evil.
In fact, he thought a score of witchesmust have been dancing on the crown of his head.
A dim wild sunset, and scudding prophet clouds that hurried from the west across the crimson zenith, like witches towards a sabbath.
These stories of witches so terrified me, that my sleeps were broken, and in my dreams I always had a fancy of a witch being in the room with me.
But the wicked suggestions of the witches had sunk too deep into the mind of Macbeth, to allow him to attend to the warnings of the good Banquo.
Turning to Banquo, he said, "Do you not hope that your children shall be kings, when what the witches promised to me has so wonderfully come to pass?
And as he talked, the rising wind wailed and sobbed like old, old witchescrying over the evil fallen on Arthur and his castle.
Witches were fascinating; but many martyrs probably marted out of sheer obstinacy, don't you think?
The Puritans are said to have hung sixty witches in Suffolk, but the Puritans were not alone responsible.
It is a fact that, up to fifty years ago two supposed witches lived in Stowmarket.
Witches have red eyes, and cannot see very far; but they have a fine sense of smelling, like wild beasts, so that they know when children approach them.
He sold not only all kinds of medicine, but also dealt in many strange charms against witches and evil spirits.
Others said it was the abode of witches and enchanters.
A French judge named Remy tells us that he knew no less than fifteen witches commit suicide in a single year.
Sprenger has noticed the same tendency among the witches he tried.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "witches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
