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  2. Cutty-sark (witch) - Wikipedia

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    Cutty-sark (18th century Scots for a short chemise or undergarment [1]) is a nickname given to Nannie, [citation needed] a fictional witch created by Robert Burns in his 1791 poem "Tam o' Shanter", after the garment she wore. In the poem, the erotic sight of her dancing in such a short clothing caused the protagonist Tam to cry out "Weel done ...

  3. Tam o' Shanter (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The music intensifies as the witches are dancing and, upon seeing one particularly wanton witch in a short dress, Tam loses his reason and shouts, '"Weel done, cutty-sark!" ("cutty-sark": short shirt). Immediately, the lights go out, the music and dancing stop, and many of the creatures lunge after Tam, with the witches leading.

  4. List of fictional witches - Wikipedia

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    The Witch (Scooby-Doo, in the episode "Which Witch is Which") The Witch ; The Witch ; The Witch (Into the Woods) Witchiepoo (H.R. Pufnstuf) Witchmon ; Brianna Withridge ; Wizadora ; The Witches of Woodstock (American Dragon: Jake Long in the episode "Game On") Wuya (as a human) (Xiaolin Showdown) X

  5. Old School RuneScape - Wikipedia

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    Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.

  6. Cutty Sark (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    The Cutty Sark is a tea clipper ship built in Scotland, now in permanent dry dock at Greenwich, London Cutty Sark may also refer to: Cutty Sark (whisky), a brand of Scotch whisky "Cutty Sark" (short story), a short story by Ivan Yefremov; Cutty-sark (witch), a character created by Robert Burns in Tam o' Shanter

  7. Katherine Campbell (accused witch) - Wikipedia

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    This mass grave, marking the last of the major witch hunts in Europe, was adorned by a horseshoe and a circle of cobblestones. [4] The horseshoe, according to Paisley folklore, was thought to bring prosperity to Paisley as long as it remained there. This was until the horseshoe was lost in the 1970s and the town's fortunes entered a period of ...

  8. Talk:Cutty-sark (witch) - Wikipedia

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    Cutty-sark (witch) → – Users opposed to the previous move proposal focused on the fact that the subject "is" a witch, ignoring MOS:REALWORLD, which says that Wikipedia presents topics from a real-world perspective, describing fictional characters as objects of the narrative rather than according to their in-universe qualities. Witches aren ...

  9. John Kincaid (witch-pricker) - Wikipedia

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    He is regularly identified as a witch-pricker in court documents from 1649 to 1662, when his career came to a sudden end after the Privy Council found him guilty of fraud and deceit. [ 5 ] Kincaid managed to secure bail after spending just over two months in prison, but did so on the condition that he would not engage in any further torture or ...