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PUZZLES Puzzle #1 – Definitions Across said to devour _____ beings or suck The plants are used in folk "cures" their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a for asthma, rheumatism, worms, 4 Black _____: Black _____ is the witch. inflammation, colds, fever, branch of _____ (paranormal power) 22 _____: A small anchor used erysipelas, cramps, and infections. with malevolent effects, or drawing whenever a large one can be 12 Ronyon: " `Aroint thee, witch!' the on malevolent powers. Typically one dispensed witch. See _____, v. t, and rump-fed ronyon _____." who practices this is called a witch or Anchor, n. Shakespeare: Macbeth, i. 3. warlock. [WP] 24 Witch hazel: any of several shrubs 13 _______ Brides: As no witch could 6 ________: ________ A cat, dog, raven, or _____ of the genus Hamamelis. shed more than three tears, and or other dumb creature, petted by a 25 Water witch: A device for those from her left eye only, a "witch," and supposed to be her determining the presence of water, copious flow of tears gave demon in disguise. (See below.). _______ electrically. Cf: divining assurance to the husband that the 8 Tumbleweed: Any plant which rod. lady had not "plighted her troth" to habitually breaks away from its roots 27 _____: _____ Cunning, or skill in a Satan, and was no witch. in the autumn, and is driven by the bad sense. Hence Witch_____, the 16 Witch hazel: ______. wind, as a _____, rolling mass, over art or cunning of a witch. 17 Witch hazel: lotion consisting of an the fields and prairies; as witch grass, 28 Rump-fed: "Aroint thee, _____! the astringent alcoholic solution wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc. rump-fed ronyon. containing an extract from the witch 9 ________: a witch doctor who hazel _____. practices conjury. 19 _____: A supernatural being, often 11 __________: __________ means Down represented as of diminutive size, prophesying by calling up the dead, 1 Witch Hazel: Witch Hazel A shrub but sometimes as a giant, and fabled as the witch of Endor called up supposed to be efficacious in to inhabit caves, hills, and like Samuel. (Greek, nekros, the dead. discovering witches. A forked twig of places; a witch. 14 Witch ______: A witch ______ often the hazel was made into a divining- 20 ___: ___. To ___ brown bess; to carry refers to healers that believe that rod for the _______. a firelock, or serve as a private maladies are caused by magic and 2 Hag: Hag A _____ or sorceress. soldier. He ___s it as the Devil ___s are therefore best cured by it, as (Anglo-Saxon, haegtesse, a _____ or a witch: said of one who holds any opposed to science or developed hag.). [WP] thing as if he was afraid of losing it. medicine. [WP] 3 ___: A witch, sorceress, or 21 _______: To run over; to grow or 15 Pythoness: a witch with ______ of enchantress. [WP] spread over in excess; to invade and divination. 5 __________: An __________ occupy; to take possession of; as, the 17 The Witch: The Witch is a play by substance is a chemical substance vine overran its trellis; the farm is Thomas Middleton. It is argued by that tends to shrink or constrict body _______ with witch grass. some that _____ of the play tissues, usually locally after topical 23 ___: ___ is a fictional witch in the involving Hecate and the Weird medicinal application. Two common series Winx Club. Her powers are Sisters were exported into William examples are calamine lotion and commonly used as ice and snow. Shakespeare's Macbeth. [WP] witch hazel. [WP] She is also leader of The Senior 18 _________: "I do believe that the 7 _______: Varied with irregular Witches. [WP] witch we call Mara has been dealing markings, or witch a confused 26 Pythoness: Any woman supposed with you."- Sir Walter Scott: The blending of irregular spots and to have a ______ of divination; a Betrothed, chap. xv. streaks. sort of witch. 20 Lamia: A monster capable of 10 ______: The pith is used by Choco assuming a woman's form, who was witch doctors to induce comas (!). 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Solutions: Astringent, Conjurer, Craft, Cries, Datura, Doctor, Familiar, Hag, Heroin, Hug, Human, Icy, Kedge, Light, Magic, Marbled, Necromancy, Nightmare, Overrun, Parts, Plant, Powers, Purpose, Spirit, Trees, Troll, Usually, Weeping, Witch (29 words). See www.websters-online-dictionary.org Puzzle #2 – Definitions Across Worst Witch books. She wrote the 10 A Witch _____: A Witch _____ is a first book in the "Worst Witch" book by author Marian Green. [WP] 2 Bell Witch ____: The Bell Witch ____ series before she was 18. [WP] 11 White witch: Another White Witch is located in Tennessee near where 26 Freddie ____: Freddie ____ is a is the Amalgam Comics _________ the Bell Farm once stood. This ____ fictional character who has his own Wanda Zatara, combining traits of has been associated with The Bell comic strip in the UK comic The the Scarlet Witch and Zatana. [WP] Witch, a period of time when the Bell Beano, the tagline being Son of a 14 White Witch: "Two or three years Family was allegedly haunted by the Witch. [WP] past there came to these parts one... Bell Witch. [WP] 27 A Witch Shall be ____: A Witch what the ______ call a white witch, 4 The _______ with Miss Switch: An Shall be ____ is one of the original a cunning man, and such like."- Sir animated television program that stories by Robert E. Howard about W. Scott: Kenilworth, chap. ix. [WP] stated in 1980. It was about two Conan the Cimmerian, first 16 Witch of November: The Witch of students, Rupert and his friend published in Weird Tales in 1934. It November is the name given to the Amelia, who find out that their has more recently been published in winds that blow across the Great substitute teacher is a witch and a the anthology The Bloody Crown of Lakes in November. Gordon magical talking cat. [WP] Conan (2004). [WP] Lightfoot's song Wreck of the 8 Liverpool 78: Liverpool 78 is a live 29 ___ of a Witch: In a Fwomp Edmund Fitzgerald _____ reference album by The Fall, first ________ interview, Gregory Maguire gave to the term. [WP] June 4 2001. These tracks have his rea___s for writing ___ of a 17 Annie May Palmer: Annie May subsequently been reissued as part of Witch. [WP] Palmer is also known as the Annie an expanded Live at the Witch Trials. 30 I _______ a Witch: I _______ a Witch Palmer & White _____ of Rose Hall. [WP] is a 1942 romantic comedy film, [WP] 9 Warlock: a male witch or _____. directed by René Clair. The popular 20 White Witch: White Witch (A). A 12 Witch Hunter Robin: A still from 1960s television series Bewitched is cunning ______. [WP] the opening sequence of Witch based on this film. [WP] 22 Lizzie ________: Lizzie ________ is a Hunter Robin.Witch Hunter Robin British television serial written by is a Japanese animation ______ Helen Cresswell, about a young girl created by Sunrise, who also created Down with a vivid imagination who starts Cowboy Bebop and Mobile Suit 1 Joshua Leonard: Joshua Leonard a relationship with a local witch Gundam.