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witch

noun as in person who casts spells over others

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It was the type of house neighborhood kids called the “witch’s house” around Halloween.

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The same administration that once led chants of “Lock her up!” over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server now dismissed the breach as “no big deal” and a “witch hunt.”

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North Lanarkshire Council has now told her the tunnel - which includes carved pumpkins, models of witches and skeletons and spooky artwork - is a "potential hazard" because it has plastic pipes and wooden rails.

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Other signs of witchcraft listed in local records include not attending church and talking to animals, which were assumed to be a witch's familiar - meaning a supernatural creature helping the accused.

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"The Witches is about that discovery that actually these benign looking women turn out to be this coven of witches, so that is embodied in the hotel," Mr O'Brien says.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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