WITCH

Related Subjects: Bigotry, Fanaticism, Superstition

1. I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are Witches: they that are in doubt of these .. . are obliquely, and upon consequence a sort, not of Infidels, but Atheists.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
   

2. They are neither man nor woman—
   They are neither brute nor human,
   They are Ghouls!—POE, The Bells
   

3. They that burn you for a witch lose all their coals.—Proverb
   

4. An' all us other children, when the supper things is done,
   We set around the kitchen fire an' has the mostest fun
   A-list'nin' to the witch tales 'at Annie tells about
   An' the gobble-uns 'at gits you
   Ef you Don't Watch Out!—JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, Little Orphant Annie
   

5. Aroint thee, witch, aroint thee!—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
   

6. What are these,
   So wither'd, and so wild in their attire;
   That look not like the inhabitants o' th' earth,
   And yet are on 't?—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
   

7. Double, double, toil and trouble;
   Fire burn and cauldron bubble.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
   

8. How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
   

9. Saw you the weird sisters?—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
   

10. The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy
    Was grown into a hoop.—SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
    

11. It is beyond all question or dispute that magic words and ceremonies are quite capable of most effectually destroying a whole flock of sheep, if the words be accompanied by a sufficient quantity of arsenic.—VOLTAIRE