Word: witch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then it was unnecessary to take the book or the lock of hair. The hex was broken; the old devilish witch was dead...
This was the story which John Blymyer told last week in court at York, Pa., standing trial for the murder of Nelson D. Rehmeyer. "Are you unhexed now?" Judge Ray Sherwood asked him. "Yes. I got the witch. ..." said John Blymyer...
West of Zanzibar. Lon Chancy, as a masked voodoo witch man impressing an African tribe with small-time vaudeville tricks, is no handsomer than usual. Chancy, with paralyzed legs, crawls on his hands or pushes himself in a wheelchair. Never believable, the plot involves a number of scenes in which Chancy, Mary Nolan and Lionel Barrymore act with the naivete, but without the conviction, of a high-school class in the Commencement play...
Hauptmann's play begins in the forest with Rautendelein and three of her faery ilk; Nickelmann, the old man of the well, all moss and weeds and dripping; a witch whose herbs were powerless against humans, and a mischievous faun whose first prank was to push down into a lake the bell which had just been cast by a certain villager named Heinrich. This Heinrich, like his wife Magda, the schoolmaster, the barber, and the pastor, was a simple peasant. All his life he had worked on the bell to hang in the church tower-so long, so hard...
...country that would require Odysseus' death as soon as she was with child by him. Before he could complete, however, his mission as chosen father, he escaped to the next island and succumbed to the charms of Circe (he later described her to Penelope as "a witch, rather distressing to look at"). Calypso, "a large female, beautifully proportioned." endured him longest-seven years-and not until their several children all showed a lurking lack of virility did she decide that it was time their lazy father should return to his long neglected wife...