witchwoman

Both in and out of the royal court, people whisper the story of her mother, the witchwoman, who was said to have enspelled the king into marrying her, to get an heir to rule Damar - then died of despair when she found she had borne a daughter instead of a son.

Archive 2006-05-01 Tarie 2006

Both in and out of the royal court, people whisper the story of her mother, the witchwoman, who was said to have enspelled the king into marrying her, to get an heir to rule Damar - then died of despair when she found she had borne a daughter instead of a son.

The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley Tarie 2006

But one question kept droning through his mind: if size determined the strength of the spell the fabrics cast — as rumor and Ilna herself claimed it did — then what would be the effect of this panel the witchwoman had framed two yards wide?

Lord of the Isles 1997

The witchwoman watched all that passed; mounting on a car drawn by dragons she made flight from Athens.

Part III. The Heroes of the Quest. Chapter III. Theseus and the Minotaur. I 1921

This witchwoman herself was immune from death; generations were born and grew to old age, and died, and other generations arose in their stead, but the witch-woman went about, her heart set against her kind; her acts were evil, her purposes wicked, she broke hearts and bodies and souls; she gloried in tears, and revelled in unhappiness, and sent them broadcast wherever she wandered.

Legends of Vancouver 1911

They spoke no more with her at that time, seeing that she was a witchwoman.

Eric Brighteyes Henry Rider Haggard 1890

It was women's talk that Asmund the Priest was the father of this child also; but when he heard it he was angry, and said that no witchwoman should bear a bairn of his, howsoever fair she was.

Eric Brighteyes Henry Rider Haggard 1890

On the same day, Groa the witchwoman brought forth a girl-child, and men wondered who was its father, for Groa was no man's wife.

Eric Brighteyes Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Panting, the witchwoman, the widow, bends to kiss his mouth.

Everything2 New Writeups 2010

Into this silence, the witchwoman creeps, her hooded cloak trimmed with the ears off

Everything2 New Writeups 2010