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- From: steward@cup.portal.com (John Joseph Deltuvia)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Nomenclature reply: Men are not Witches!
- Message-ID: <74461@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 15:52:33 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- While I don't have an up-to-date editor which lets me easily put in quotes
- from the last thirty posts or so, I DO have an up-to-date edition of the
- somewhat maligned American Heritage Dictionary:
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- witch n. 1. A woman popularly believed to have supernatural powers and
- practice sorcery, and often believed to be aided by spirits or a familiar.
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- 2. A believer or follower of Wicca; a Wiccan.
- (also 3 more noun and 2 verb definitions)
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- The word history the dictionary gives, as well as the Proto-Indo etymology,
- make it clear that the word "witch" derives from both male-gender and
- female-gender nouns.
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