sorceress

That semi-fanciful film was a deadpan spin on the ingrained misogyny that conveniently tags a steely, orphaned 9-year-old village girl as a sorceress.

Elphaba, in contrast, is a naturally talented sorceress whose green skin led her father to reject her from the moment she was born.

“Wicked” also benefited from mostly positive reviews hyping the performances of its leading sorceresses.

Jennifer Kale, for instance, is a sorceress who first appeared in an issue of the horror comic “Adventure into Fear” in the 1970s.

The pattern across the jersey is inspired by a fifth-century BC vase attributed to Persephone, which depicts Ulysses and the sorceress Circe in Homer's Odyssey.