witch
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She’s pressed into the service of a controlling witch, Yubaba, who runs a bathhouse where Chihiro finds work.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
"Kane curse lifted", the paper says, referring to England captain Harry Kane, who came under a "curse" from a "witch doctor".
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
Nathaniel Hawthorne set this brooding, allegorical work in mid-19th-century Salem, Mass., a town cursed by the crimes of the witch trials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Clients seek out the womb witch for a variety of reasons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
“Well, surely you’ve guessed at the consequences of such magic,” said the witch.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Angle and his team call it the Familiar—the same term witches use for their supernatural animal companions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
It’s not just entrepreneurial witches selling spells on Etsy.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2026
And inside the new North Hollywood space, here there be witches, yes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
Her husband, who would later write witches and sorcerers and soothsayers into “Macbeth,” “The Tempest” and “Julius Caesar,” is taxed by her psychic gifts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
“And if I am to go toe-to-toe with witches using forbidden magic, I’m going to need it.”
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
Eichel s witched agents last month and is now represented by Creative Artists Agency’s Pat Brisson, who represents numerous high-profile NHL players.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2021
Since then, he’s witched - or doused - for unmarked graves at other cemeteries in southeast Nebraska, and for his wife’s family in Kansas.
From Washington Times ● May 9, 2015
Maurice Evans, apparently a bit witched himself, guest-stars as Samantha's warlock father.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the eyes of oldtime politicians Franklin Roosevelt has be witched the U. S. people with his smile, the toss of his head, the hearty frankness of his manner.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Only a certified idiot would set foot in there. Place is witched, and a deathtrap to boot.”
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
The third Friday of March, June, September, and December are called triple witching days because stock options, stock-index futures, and stock index options all expire on the same day.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Fittingly, Day made it in the witching hours after last year’s Niteharts Festival.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
The real risk, according to Matt Thompson, is what happens in the days after a triple witching.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026
Yet these stories have real heft and depth and will linger in the imagination well beyond the witching time of year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Perhaps, she told herself, this was what they called the witching hour.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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