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In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor ma...

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L. Frank BaumThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Witch' is just a religion, okay? No baby-sacrificing, no Black Masses, no sending imps out to scare ...

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Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchc...

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I won't stay inwith married menany moresaid the wise girlthey're too agreeable,it's a little too muc...

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This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field wit...

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It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturi...

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We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against t...

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You are so young, Lyra, too young to understand this, but I shall tell you anyway and you'll underst...

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Ruta Skadi was four hundred and sixteen years old, with all the pride and knowledge of an adult witc...

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Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible...

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I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infes...

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Ray BradburyLong After Midnight

A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The thi...

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Ray BradburyLong After Midnight

Down vith children! Do them in!Boil their bones and fry their skin!Bish them, sqvish them, bash them...

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My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?"...

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...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mount...

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Er, excuse me,' said the man as Nanny Ogg turned away, 'but what is that on your shoulders?''It's. ....

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No,' she said. 'No, I don't reckon that's what I do now. Are you watchin', Mrs Gogol? Are you watchi...

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But a girl starting out in life might well say to herself: 'Is this it? You worked hard and denied y...

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Terry PratchettA Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction

Here you are. Would you like some pickles?”“Pickles gives me the wind something awful.”“In that case...

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Tiffany jumped when she saw a balloon sail up above the trees, catch the wind, and swoop away, but i...

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Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company but they did like to know ...

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It might have interested Newt to know that, of the thirty-nine thousand women tested with the pin du...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

I don’t reckon it’s allowed, going round setting fire to people,” said Adam. “Otherwise people’d be ...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

The English, by and large, being a crass and indolent race, were not as keen on burning women as oth...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

Even the pious Scots, locked throughout history in a long-drawn-out battle with their arch-enemies t...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.

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Terry PratchettI Shall Wear Midnight

At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings a...

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I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned...

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A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING.People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in...

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If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfil...

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Terry PratchettLords and Ladies

Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the ...

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Terry PratchettLords and Ladies

Tiffany found her mind filling up with an invisible gray mist, and in that thought there was nothing...

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For a witch stands on the very edge of everything, between the light and the dark, between life and ...

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Witches are naturally nosy,” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet aga...

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And people think she killed him?" said Miss Tick. She sighed. "They probably think she cooked him in...

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Gossiping's part of witchcraft,' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.

A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, bec...

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You couldn't escape the pointy hat, though. There was nothing magical about a pointy hat except that...

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That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts ...

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What some people need," said Magrat, to the world in general, "is a bit more heart.""What some peopl...

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Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with th...

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Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal as far as other witches are concerned. There's...

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Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a w...

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Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

Granny looked up at the zombie. He was - or, technically, had been - a tall, handsome man. He still ...

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At last the magic caught, and she managed to vault clumsily onto it before it trundled into the nigh...

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Witches just aren’t like that,” said Magrat. “We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, an...

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We ain’t going to curse anyone,” said Granny firmly. “It hardly ever works if they don’t know you’ve...

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You don't need none of that," she said. "You need headology.

We got the spell exactly right. Except for the ingredients. And most of the poetry. And it probably ...

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I myself have seen this woman draw the stars from the sky; she diverts the course of a fast-flowing ...

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TibullusThe Works of Tibullus

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman se...

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I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, whic...

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In his refusal to believe in anything supernatural or inherently evil, he was as unrealistic as an o...

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And oh, how she pitched herself into things. She would draw pictures all day long for weeks on end, ...

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Anne RiceThe Witching Hour

I tell you, Richard, if you ever get ready to sell your soul, don’t bother to sell it to another hum...

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Lasher,’ she said, ‘for the wind which you send that lashes the grasslands, for the wind that lashes...

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Anne RiceThe Witching Hour

She had understood before she had ever dreamed of a city such as this, where every texture, every co...

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He’ll take from your mind the answer best suited to lead you on, to enthrall you. He’ll weave a web ...

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Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the...

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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and great...

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H. L. MenckenThe Artist: A Drama Without Words

Out in the stone-pile the toad squatted with its glowing jewel-eyes and, maybe, its memories. I don'...

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You see, a witch has to have a familiar, some little animal like a cat or a toad. He helps her someh...

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My mother was a pathetic patchwork witch who had used magic so much to meddle in her own life that s...

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People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, p...

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