witchcraftsman

plural witchcraftsmen

1. humorousA practitioner of witchcraft.

   It had been found and declared by an analytical witchcraftsman that Abdul’s character contained intelligence among other ingredients; he knew largely what he was doing.

   1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, London: Macmillan, Part One, Chapter 4

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   Apprenticeships are mostly a thing of the distant past, although some practicing wizards are willing to take on young helpers and to train them to become master witchcraftsmen themselves.

   2006, Matthew David Brozik, Jacob Sager Weinstein, The Government Manual for New Wizards, Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, pages 18–19