sorceress

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Her winking yet bone-chilling turn as a great aunt and better soul-sucking sorceress in “Weapons” has brought Amy Madigan her second Academy Award nomination and the most focused attention in career.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

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

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2024

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.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2024

She became a tattoo artist, and now proudly identifies as a none and a witch; she has leg tattoos of a sorceress and a black cat.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2023

In the realm of the real, she might have been just a girl, in hiding and in peril, but in the unconscious mind she was all-powerful: sorceress and storyteller, puppeteer and dark enthraller.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor