What does a witch mean?

Witch is an old woman with supernatural power in western legends.

Witches are usually fairies or goddesses and often appear in folklore and fairy tales. Usually their characters are either kind or vicious, and their descriptions often become ambiguous. With the research of modern science on nature and medicine, the claimed ability of witch doctors is seriously doubted, and witch doctors are considered as feudal superstitious practitioners pretending to be ghosts.

Witches, also known as witches, refer to female characters who use magic, spells, divination and other means to carry out evil activities or control others in legends or myths. Witches are often portrayed as evil, cunning and dangerous people in various cultures, and their images and behaviors usually cause fear and disgust. The image of witch often appears in literature, movies, drama and other fields, and becomes a representative mysterious role.

Witch classification

Witches are women who can communicate with ghosts and gods, use voodoo and astrology, and claim to be possessed by ghosts and gods for a living. In the villages of primitive society, with the help of the divine power of nature or the power possessed by gods, the professionals who pray for people to exorcise evil spirits and treat diseases are usually older women, similar to Japanese witches.

More common in western fairy tales, mostly in the image of an old woman with a hooked nose. She looks extremely ugly in a black cloak. She likes to mumble. She cooked lizards, bats, spiders, poisonous snakes and other ingredients in a large pot to make thick soup. This impression is generally believed to have been stereotyped in the history of witch hunting.