Witch (disambiguation)

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A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft.

Witch, WITCH, or variations thereof may also refer to:

  • witch as a practitioner of neopagan witchcraft
  • Witch (archetype), as it appears in psychology and literature
  • Witch (word), the word "witch" itself

Animals

  • Witch (lefteye flounder) (Arnoglossus scapha), a Pacific flatfish
  • Witch (righteye flounder) (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus), a European flatfish
  • Araotes lapithis, the witch, a butterfly of India
  • Megrim (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis), sometimes known as witch

Arts, entertainment, and media

Comics

  • W.I.T.C.H., an Italian fantasy comics series first published in 2001
  • Witches (Marvel Comics), a 2004 supernatural comic book mini-series published by Marvel Comics
  • Wytches (comics), a 2014 horror comic series by Scott Snyder and Jock
  • Witches (manga), a Japanese manga series

Fairy tales and literature

  • Hag, or witch, a stock character in fairy tales
  • The Witch (fairy tale), a Russian fairy tale
  • The Witch (play), a 1616 play by Thomas Middleton
  • "The Witch" (short story), an 1886 short story by Anton Chekhov
  • The Witch, the English title of Anne Pederstotter (play) (1908)
  • The Witches (novel), a children's book by Roald Dahl
  • Witches (Discworld), witches as represented in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
  • Three Witches, characters in the William Shakespeare play Macbeth
  • Witches (anthology), an anthology of themed fantasy and science fiction short stories

Films

  • The Witch (1916 film), a lost American silent drama film
  • Häxan, a 1922 Danish film, released in some English speaking countries as The Witches
  • The Witch (1952 film), a Finnish horror film
  • The Witch (1954 film), a West German drama film
  • La strega in amore, a 1966 Italian drama-horror film by Damiano Damiani also known as The Witch
  • The Witches (1966 film), a British horror film
  • The Witches (1967 film), an Italian film
  • The Witches (1990 film), a film based on Roald Dahl's book
  • The Witch (2015 film), an American-Canadian horror film directed by Robert Eggers
  • The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion, a 2018 South Korean action film
  • The Witches (2020 film), a film based on Roald Dahl's book

Music

Groups

  • Witch (American band), a doom/stoner metal band formed in 2005
  • Witch (Zamrock band), a 1970s Zambian rock band
  • The Witches, a 90s Israeli, all-female alternative/heavy rock trio led by Inbal Perlmuter
  • The Wytches, an English three-piece band
  • David Ryder Prangley and the Witches, mid 2000s UK band formed by the former frontman of Rachel Stamp

Albums

  • Witch (Boyfriend EP)
  • Witch (Gangsta Boo & La Chat EP), 2014
  • Wytches, a 1994 album by British rock band Inkubus Sukkubus
  • The Witch (album)
  • Witches (album), a 2015 album by One-Eyed Doll

Songs

  • "The Witch", a 1970 single by The Rattles
  • "The Witch" (song), a 1965 song by The Sonics
  • "The Witch", a 2004 song by Insane Clown Posse
  • "W.I.T.C.H." (song), a 2022 song by Devon Cole
  • Witches (song), a 1988 song by Miho Nakayama

Other uses in music

  • The Witch, a side project of Cold (band) started in 2006
  • The Witches (opera), a 2008 opera by Marcus Paus

Television

  • W.I.T.C.H. (TV series), a 2004 television series based on the eponymous comic book
  • "Witch" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode)
  • Witch (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), witches as represented in the TV series
  • Witches (What We Do in the Shadows), an episode of the television series What We Do in the Shadows

Other uses in entertainment

  • W.I.T.C.H (video game), a 2006 platform game for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and Game Boy Advance
  • The Witch, a non-playable character in the Left 4 Dead series
  • Witches (Mayfair Games), a supplement for fantasy role-playing games

Ships

  • Witch (catboat), a racing boat built in 1900
  • HMS Waterwitch, the name of more than one ship of the Royal Navy
  • HMS Witch (D89), a British destroyer in commission in the Royal Navy during the mid-1920s and from 1939 to 1945

Other uses

  • Greenwood Witch, ultralight aircraft
  • The Witch (ballet), John Cranko's 1931 ballet to Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Major
  • WITCH (computer), an early Dekatron computer renamed the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing from Harwell
  • WITCH experiment, a particle physics experiment
  • Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (W.I.T.C.H.), an American feminist organization

See also

  • All pages with titles containing Witch
  • Hag
  • -wich or -wych, placename element in -wich towns in England
  • Witch Mountain (disambiguation)
  • Witchcraft (disambiguation)
  • Wych-elm, tree
Topics referred to by the same term
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