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Short stories about witches and witchcraft (9 P) Pages in category "Witchcraft in written fiction" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
Fiction about witchcraft, the use of alleged supernatural powers of magic. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft. Traditionally, "witchcraft" means the use of magic or supernatural powers to inflict harm or misfortune on others.
"The Dreams in the Witch House" was likely inspired by Willem de Sitter's [4] lecture The Size of the Universe, which Lovecraft attended three months prior to writing the story. De Sitter is mentioned by name in the story, described as a mathematical genius, and listed in a group of other intellectual masterminds, including Albert Einstein .
Short stories about witches and witchcraft. Pages in category "Short stories about witches and witchcraft" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Secrets of the Silent Witch; Something Wicked This Way Comes (novel) Somnium (novel) A Song of Ice and Fire; Spook's; The Spook's Apprentice; Stardust (Gaiman novel) The Stories of Girls Who Couldn't Be Magicians; Summer of Fear (novel) Sweep (book series)
The novel is based on the true story of the Pendle witches, who were executed in 1612 for causing harm by witchcraft. Modern critics such as David Punter consider the book to be Ainsworth's best work. [2] E. F. Bleiler rated the novel as "one of the major English novels about witchcraft". [3]
Alwina (Good witch in the Suske en Wiske story "Het Spaanse Spook") Alwina (Evil witch in the Suske en Wiske story "De Schat van Beersel") Antanneke (Witch in the Suske en Wiske story "De Zeven Snaren") Arba (Groo the Wanderer) B. Queen Beryl (Sailor Moon) Broom-Hilda (Broom-Hilda) C. Queen Candy (Sugar Sugar Rune) Circe
Rachel Dyer is the first fictionalized account of the Salem witch trials story in a bound novel, being preceded only by Salem, an Eastern Tale (1820), which was published anonymously to little notice and low distribution in serial form by a New York City literary journal. [77]