Quotes About Witches

H]as it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it? [ 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor' (Columbia University / The New York Times , December 12, 1991)]

Shah Ismail had fallen victim to the rarely used, great Uzbek anti-Shiite potato and sturgeon curse, which required quantities of potatoes and caviar which were not easy to amass, and a unity of purpose among the Sunni witches which was likewise difficult to achieve.

WITCHES TAKE THEIR NAMES FROM PLACES, for places are what give them their strength. The place need not be beautiful, or habitable, or even green. Sand and salt, so much the better. Scrub pine, plumberry, and brambles, better still. From every bitter thing, after all, something hardy will surely grow. From every difficulty, the seed that's sewn is that much stronger. Ruin is the milk all witches must drink; it's the lesson they learn and the diet they're fed upon.

The craft was dangerous and unpredictable, and witches were difficult to control, for they had minds of their own and didn't hold to keeping to the law.

WITCHES TAKE THEIR NAMES FROM PLACES, for places are what give them their strength. The place need not be beautiful, or habitable, or even green. Sand and salt, so much the better. Scrub pine, plumberry, and brambles, better still. From every bitter thing, after all, something hardy will surely grow. From every difficulty, the seed that's sewn is that much stronger.

Sally went off, surprised that she could no longer pick up the scent of water as witches always could. There was always a price to pay, she knew that. You didn't have to be cursed in love to know that when you loved someone you were open to great loss.

You might not believe this, but most witches are afraid of humans." 'Did she say…humans?' "Why? Because…Well… Humans aren't green like us. I'm not afraid, though. I've done my research. Here are the facts. Strange but true:" Most humans are afraid to fly. Most humans do not wear point hats. Humans are rarely known to cackle. "Nothing too bad, except, you know…the green thing.

Some witches, the very brave ones, are not afraid of humans." "And some humans, the very brave ones, are not afraid to fly.

It means that all witches who hunt will turn their full attention on the ones Dominique considers responsible for my murder. They will call on their allies. They will track down anyone they have ever know to have a connection to the killers, without worrying about messy treaties with SingleEarth or other normally respected neutral havens. I don't suppose they care that your are not, in fact, dead, Nikolas said. Sarah shook her head. In their eyes, I am.

In case you never noticed, bards have a habit of dressing things up. There is a fine living, d'ya see, in songs about deep-wise witches, but in shitty idiots, less.

I've heard the story about the theft of the pearl many times," said Millie. "If it's the same pearl, my mother was the witch who took it. Do you know if the two sea witches were named Pearl and Nastia Nautica?

When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers, 'tis near Halloween.

You think ghosts and witches and vampires and ghosts and two-headed monsters are bad. Why? Do you know what that is, David? It's prejudice. Racial prejudice!

No one has ever satisfactorily explained why witches have mostly been women. Since witch accusers have also often been women—probably more often than men—the explanation cannot simply be man's fear and hatred of females.

But you see, the Land of Oz has never been civilized, for we are cut off from the rest of the world. Therefore we still have witches and wizards amongst us.

In Central and Southern Africa, the ability to detect witches was also believed in several places to be inherent in chiefs, as one of that concentration of semi-mystical qualities that gave them the right to lead. In

Owls visited them at night. Some thought the owls were witches. Some thought they were angels of death. Some thought they were holy and brought blessings. Some thought they were the restless spirits of the dead. The cowboys thought they were owls.

I'm a pretty good dancer," Lion says. "Do you want to see me Floss?" "No," she says, frowning. "Flossing will not help you save your friends and defeat the witches!" She is clearly exasperated. "I can do the Macarena," Tin Man adds. The guardian sighs and shakes her head. "Save the Wizard first. Then get your friends. Then you can practice your dance moves.

To spare such speeches, it were well! They of the witches' kitchen smell, And of a time long past and gone. To know the world have I not sought? The empty learned, the empty taught?- Spake I out plainly, as in reason bound, Then doubly loud the paradox would sound; By Fortune's adverse buffets overborne To solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn, And not in utter loneliness to live, Myself at last did to the Devil give!

How do you do that?" I asked. "What do witches eat?" "Witches loves pork meat," she said. "They loves rice and potatoes. They loves black-eyed peas and cornbread. Lima beans, too, and collard greens and cabbage, all cooked in pork fat. Witches is old folks, most of them. They don't care none for low-cal. You pile that food on a paper plate, stick a plastic fork in it, and set it down by the side of a tree. And that feeds the witches." The

The whole concept of witches was that women were speaking up for themselves and fighting for their rights. The whole concept of witchcraft came into play to hold down women and women's empowerment.

The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.

My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'

Raw parsley makes me gag. It's the same for my mum and my sister. Which is funny because apparently parsley was used to suffocate witches, back in the day.