sorceress
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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
Jennifer Kale, for instance, is a sorceress who first appeared in an issue of the horror comic “Adventure into Fear” in the 1970s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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
The title figure is a formidable sorceress who ends up falling in love with one of the victims she keeps on her fantastical island.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
She had a sudden image of herself as a sorceress, waving her hand over the field and transforming the boys below into pea-sized plastic dolls.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
Universal partnered with 400 brands worldwide — including Starbucks, Ulta Beauty, Bloomingdale’s and Lexus — to douse retail shelves in pink and green, the signature colors of the movie’s leading sorceresses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
Ralph Lee, a creator of giant crustaceans, lizards, skeletons and sorceresses, as well as one enduring New York tradition, the Village Halloween Parade, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2023
Yennefer, meanwhile, comes to know power of a different kind via the world of magic, chaos, and its political split between male wizards and female sorceresses.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2019
This sequence, which features backup sorceresses in black capes like swirling bat wings, is impressively mysterious and dynamic, thanks to choreographer Rachel Leigh Dolan and costume designer Debra Kim Sivigny.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2017
Understood in this manner, a sense of duty towards religion did not prevent resorting to sorceresses.
From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Arvede Barine
