Witches

Question 1

Names for Witches

Answer 1

Russian:
Ved’ma: witch (to “know” the future, to divine)
Koldun: sorcerer (incantation, spell-saying)

English:
Witch(“spell-caster,” “diviner”)
sorcerer(“spell-caster”)
warlock(“traitor”)
wizard(“wise one”)

Old English:
wicca, wicce, wiccian (to bewitch, to cast a spell, in the context of religion and magical mode of thought)
wis, witan (wise)

Late Latin/French:
sorcier(one who devises and casts spells)

Question 2

Appearances of witches:

Answer 2

dark-haired or red haired;
green-eyed, black-eyed, wall-eyed, cross-eyed, blind, inflamed eyes
unibrow
young and sexy // old and ugly
with six toes

Question 3

Witches and sorcerers are “made” when:

Answer 3

a demon inhabits their body;
they enter into a pact with the devil;
they deny God;
they cohabit with a devil or demon;
a dying witch or sorcerer passes on “the words” or “The Power”;
they are breast-fed for more than two years as infants;
they are third generation illegitimate.

Question 4

Distinguishing features of witches and sorcerers:

Answer 4

• They have two souls and two shadows;
• They must receive “the words” or “The Power”
• They can shapeshift;
• They can summon the dead;
• They can control storms;
• They can control animals;
• They can ruin a harvest, bring drought;
• They can do love charms and death charms;
• They can suck human blood;
• They can fly;
• They consort with the devil, demons, and each other;
• They foretell the future and do divination;
• They do all kinds of evil;
• They must pass on “the words” or “the power” to someone else before they can die;
• Dying witches and sorcerers can predict their own deaths;
• They have to be buried at the crossroads or in other locations away from the churchyard;
• The earth may refuse to receive their bodies;
• They may return as ghosts or vampires.