1894 Brewer’s / H / Hag
A witch or sorceress. (Anglo-Saxon, hœgtesse, a witch or hag.)
“How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags?”
Shakespeare: Macbeth, iv. 1.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.