enchantress

plural enchantresses · alternative enchauntress · alternative inchantress

1. A woman, especially an attractive one, skilled at using magic; an alluring witch.

   For even the enchantresses Circe and Medea could not, by their black arts, prevent the unfaithfulness of Odysseus and Jason.

   1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 175

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   Him fortuned (hard fortune ye may gheſſe) To come, where vile Acraſia does wonne [live], Acraſia a falſe enchauntereſſe, That many errant knightes hath fowle fordonne: […]

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 51, page 201

   The tablets upon which the events of the day were recorded refer to enchantresses, and we can conclude that they were by no means restricted to ancient beldames.

   1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 25

   Synonyms: siren, sorceress

2. A beautiful, charming and irresistible woman.

   She was the enchantress of men’s hearts.

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   Once upon a time (as the story goes) there was a beautiful maiden, an absolute enchantress.

   2021 [2001], John Eldredge, chapter 10, in Wild at Heart, Expanded edition, Nelson Books, →ISBN, page 163

3. A femme fatale.

   His desire for that enchantress led him to financial ruin.

   Synonyms: vamp