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A benevolent witch was known as a "white witch". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'') In [[Orkney]], [[Scotland]], a witch could be referred to as a "spey-wife". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Revenants (audio story)|The Revenants]]'') A group of witches was called a [[coven]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl (TV story)|Image of the Fendahl]]'')

A witch practised [[witchcraft]]. In [[folklore]], witches were known for flying on [[broom]]sticks ([[TV]]: ''[[The Smugglers (TV story)|The Smugglers]]'') and cackling. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'') They were also capable of casting spells, ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'') which they recorded in their [[grimoire]]s. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Ghosts of Winterborne (home video)|Ghosts of Winterborne]]'', ''[[White Witch of Devil's End (home video)|White Witch of Devil's End]]'')

Alien entities, the [[Fendahl]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl (TV story)|Image of the Fendahl]]'') and the [[Dæmon]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'') undoubtedly affected [[human]]ity, specifically human notions of [[witchcraft]].

In [[1899]], [[Henry Gordon Jago]] and Professor [[George Litefoot]] had an encounter with witches. Jago was able to defeat them with his large vocabulary. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Carrionite Curse (audio story)|The Carrionite Curse]]'')

[[File:Witch on trial (TW).jpg|thumb|[[Mother Twiston]] is chained to a [[ducking stool]] and [[witch trial|tried for witchcraft]] in [[17th century]] [[Lancashire]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witchfinders (TV story)|The Witchfinders]]'')]]

During the [[17th century]] in [[Europe]], fear of [[witchcraft]] was the pretext for the [[witch trial|trial]] and state-approved murder of many innocents. ([[TV]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl (TV story)|Image of the Fendahl]]'') This was the same in the [[United States]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Witch Hunters (novel)|The Witch Hunters]]'')

Suspected witches were tied up and had [[fruit]] thrown at them. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Witch from the Well (audio story)|The Witch from the Well]]'') The [[Bible]] instructed not to allow witches to live. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Winter for the Adept (audio story)|Winter for the Adept]]'') Several [[Witchcraft Act]]s were passed by governments prohibiting its practice. Suspects of witchcraft were bound and thrown into a [[pond]]. If the suspect sunk and [[Drowning|drowned]], they were considered innocent. If he or she floated, however, they were found guilty and were [[Death penalty|executed]]. One way or another, the suspect would die. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Plague of the Daleks (audio story)|Plague of the Daleks]]'') The [[ducking stool]] was a similar method of punishment. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Devil's Armada (audio story)|The Devil's Armada]]'') Witches could also be [[Fire|burned at the stake]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'') or [[hanged]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Witch Hunters (novel)|The Witch Hunters]]'') [[Jamie McCrimmon]], a [[Scottish]] [[Highlander]] from [[1746]], noted that witches were sprinkled with [[holy water]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'') In Britain, the last Witchcraft Act was not repealed until [[1951]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'')

In [[March]] [[1215]], [[Turlough]] found himself locked up as a witch for supposedly conjuring up [[demon]]s in the court of [[King]] [[John of England]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The King's Demons (TV story)|The King's Demons]]'')

When [[Ashildr]], an [[immortality|immortal]] [[human]], cured a whole village of [[scarlet fever]], the villagers believed she was a witch and attempted to [[drown]] her. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'')

In London, [[1599]], three [[Carrionite]]s planned to use [[William Shakespeare]]'s play, ''[[Love's Labour's Won]]'', to free their race and establish a "Millennium of blood". The Carrionites were witch-like creatures who used [[voodoo]] and "spells" to kill their victims. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'')

In the [[17th century]], [[Agnes Leech]] was accused of being a witch. [[Matthew Hopkins]] came to find Agnes and framed her. [[Clara Oswald]] convinced a mob that Hopkins was the witch, not Agnes. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Witch Hunt (comic story)|Witch Hunt]]'')

[[Becka Savage]] falsely accused many women in [[Bilehurst Cragg]] of being witches, including the [[Thirteenth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witchfinders (TV story)|The Witchfinders]]'')

The [[Third Doctor]] once encountered a [[Peasant (Invasion of the Dinosaurs)|peasant]] who had been sent to [[1970s]] London by a [[time eddy]]. The peasant claimed that a witch had cast a spell on him and that he was going to tell the [[priest]] so he could have her burned. ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'')

[[Aggie (The Sow in Rut)|Aggie]] was a white witch who gave Sarah Jane Smith some [[heather]] to use as protection against a [[demonic pig spirit]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sow in Rut (short story)|The Sow in Rut]]'')

Around the early 21st century, the leader of the [[Ravens (gang)|Ravens]] kidnapped [[Christine Jenkins|Christine]] and [[Demi Jenkins]] and attempted to summon a daemon from the past. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ravens (comic story)|Ravens]]'')

Above [[London]] in [[2006]], the [[Sycorax leader]] regarded the Doctor as a practitioner of [[witchcraft]] when he saw him [[regeneration|regrow]] his hand after his cut it off. The Doctor told the Sycorax that he was a [[Time Lord]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'')

The [[Salem witch trials]] were the [[witch trial|trials of supposed witches]] in [[Salem Village]] between [[1692]] and [[1693]]. In [[June]] 1692, [[Susan Foreman]] found herself accused of [[witchcraft]] in [[Salem Village]]. [[Tituba]], [[Rebecca Nurse]], [[John Proctor]] and [[Elizabeth Proctor]] were all falsely accused of witchcraft by [[Reverend]] [[Samuel Parris]] and [[hanged]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Witch Hunters (novel)|The Witch Hunters]]'')

[[Mathilda (Wonderland)|Mathilda]], also known as the Witch of Buena Vista, distributed [[Blue Moonbeams]] in [[San Francisco]] in [[1967]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Wonderland (novel)|Wonderland]]'')

In [[785]], the [[Council of Paderborn]] outlawed the belief in witches, which began a period of time lasting until the [[12th century]] where witch trials didn't occur. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Book of Kells (audio story)|The Book of Kells]]'')

[[Peril Bellamy (Winter for the Adept)|Peril Bellamy]], a student at the [[Tremayne Academy]], [[Switzerland]], in [[1963]], was [[telekinetic]]. She and her ancestors were often accused of being witches. Miss [[Tremayne]] overheard this fact and threatened her with a butcher's knife. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Winter for the Adept (audio story)|Winter for the Adept]]'')

[[William Shakespeare]] wrote about witches, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'') featuring them in his play, ''[[Macbeth]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The True Tragedie of Macbeth (short story)|The True Tragedie of Macbeth]]'')

''[[Harry Potter]]'' was a series of books by [[J. K. Rowling]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'') which included ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]''. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'') [[PQ Rowling]], a descendant of J. K., later wrote ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Moon Dentist]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Adaptation of Death (short story)|Doctor Who and the Adaptation of Death]]'')

Though not precisely a witch, [[The Seeker (The Ribos Operation)|the Seeker]] on [[Ribos]] appeared to serve a similar cultural function. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'')

In the [[28th century]], the [[Catholic Church]] branded [[Time Lord]]s witches after a malfunctioning [[TARDIS]] materialised on [[Haven (planet)|Haven]] and exploded. The [[Seventh Doctor]] was accused of [[witchcraft]] after his TARDIS materialised in a Haven marketplace. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Companion Piece (novel)|Companion Piece]]'')

The [[Witch and Whirlwind]] was a [[pub]] on [[Dellah]] frequented by [[Bernice Summerfield]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dragons' Wrath (novel)|Dragons' Wrath]]'') [[Straggly Witch]] was the name of a [[loch]] in [[Scotland]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Enemy Aliens (audio story)|Enemy Aliens]]'')