black witch

plural black witches

1. A witch who practices black magic.First known use 17th c.

   Prosecutions of black witches suspected of doing harm to other people were numerous enough.

   1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 238

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   There were supposed to be three kinds of witches, the black variety that always worked evil, the white, always good and rendered human beings great services and the gray ones, good or bad as they saw fit. The black witches are the most interesting since they are figuratively more colorful, with a definite personality, ill disposed as they are.

   1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 261

   Antonyms: white witch