witches

     

Witchcraft, in various historical, anthropological, religious an mythological contexts, is the use of certain kinds of supernatural or magical powers.

Trivia about witches

  • In 1730 Ben Franklin printed a made-up account of the trial of these, including testing whether they floated
  • A ballabille is a section of dance music: Verdi used one in "Macbeth" to describe the dancing of them
  • Their chant in "Macbeth" begins, "Double, double, toil and trouble"
  • In the 1640s Matthew Hopkins hunted these by seeing if people floated in water