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White Witch (A)

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A cunning fellow; one knowing in white art in contradistinction to black art.

Two or three years past there came to these parts one … what the vulgar call a white witch, a cunning man, and such like.”—Sir W. Scott: Kenilworth, chap. ix.

 

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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.

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