Word: witch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alvaric came to Witch Ziroonderel, his father's friend. Out of 17 thunderbolts which he dug up at her bidding from the soft earth under her cabbages, she fashioned him a sword and enchanted it with runes and bade him be off. So Alvaric set his face toward the Elfin Mountains, whose changeless peaks were the color of forget-me-nots, and in due time passed the frontier of twilight that bordered the fields men knew and was the rampart of Elfland...
...Vendome (Holland-American) ?Ossip S. Gabrilówitch, famed pianist and Conductor of the Detroit Sym- phony, with his wife (Clara Clemens), daughter of the late Mark Twain...
...witch doctor of high repute," who danced around the barn uttering strange incantations. Still the cows and the calves and the sheep and the lambs died. A tailor from a nearby village turned up to have a look at the barn. He said he was possessed of occult powers, but after looking over the bewitched building, he shook his head gravely-very gravely, so gravely that the peasant sold it at a ridiculously low figure. The tailor resold at a magnificently high profit. The story came out in court, but the tailor and those to whom he sold were acquitted...
Elder James E. Watson, aided by Elder Lodge, captured the Witch of the World Court and consigned her to the custody of the Foreign Relations Committee with the remark: "May God have mercy on your soul...
...semi-mythical character. It is the land of unreality staging futurity. The entire world speaks of the Ruhr, not as the comparatively small industrial area in Western Germany, but as a separate territory wherein the evil potions of the world are being stirred to potency by the wicked witch of hate. And the garb of the witch is draped of many flags...