A person who practices witchcraft, popularly believed to have supernatural powers and to also perform sorcery, and often believed to be aided by spirits or a familiar.
According to the Malleus Maleficarum, witches, men or women who have entered into pacts with Satan, are capable of changing themselves into other creatures, raising storms, bringing sickness to human and animals, causing sterility, and flying.
They consort carnally with demons and even with Satan himself.
Whether or not this diabolical form of witchcraft was ever practiced by actual people is debated among historians.
Some say that it never was or that if there were isolated pockets of Devil worshipers, they
were probably extremely rare.
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