Warlock
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A warlock is traditionally a male practitioner of witchcraft or sorcery.
Costume design for a warlock for the opera Mefistofele (Alfredo Leonardo Edel, 1881)
Warlocks and Witches in a dance (John Faed, 1855)
Witch (word)
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The English word witch, from the Old English wiċċe, is a term rooted in European folklore and superstition for a practitioner of witchcraft, magic or sorcery. Traditionally associated with malevolent
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…or "deceiver". The term came to apply specially to the devil around 1000 AD. In early modern Scots, the word came to refer to the male equivalent of a "witch" (which can be male or female, but has historically been used predominantly for females). The term may have become associated in Scotland with male…
The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse (1886)
Riding Witches by Otto Goetze