1. A prettymuch rad show, popular in the 90's, about a teenage witch, who lives a relatively normal life, learning lessons through her magic.
1. I'm Sabrina the teenage witch and I basically used to accidentally turn people into pineapples, but now I can toadally whip yo ass with Truth Sprinkles and stuffff. <3
by the guhllies. October 23, 2005
Get the sabrina the teenage witchmug. 1692, in Salem (now Danvers), Massachusetts, fourteen women and six men were executed on charges of witchcraft because of the antics of a group of girls and young women.
The girls, who were most likely acting and seeking attention, had been screaming hysterically, thrashing about, uttering strange sounds, and were generally acting in very aberrant ways. Owing to the already tense atmosphere of the village, people suspected witchcraft and, upon hearing the testimonies from these "possessed" girls, they were willing to follow whatever the girls said. The Puritans, as humorless and superstitious as always, were convinced that God had abandoned them.
By October of that year, nineteen people were hanged, one man was pressed to death under a board weighted with rocks, and hundreds had been jailed. It was only when the girls began accusing ministers, men, children, the wealthy... and the governor's wife of witchcraft that the authorities finally intervened and stopped the trials.
The girls, who were most likely acting and seeking attention, had been screaming hysterically, thrashing about, uttering strange sounds, and were generally acting in very aberrant ways. Owing to the already tense atmosphere of the village, people suspected witchcraft and, upon hearing the testimonies from these "possessed" girls, they were willing to follow whatever the girls said. The Puritans, as humorless and superstitious as always, were convinced that God had abandoned them.
By October of that year, nineteen people were hanged, one man was pressed to death under a board weighted with rocks, and hundreds had been jailed. It was only when the girls began accusing ministers, men, children, the wealthy... and the governor's wife of witchcraft that the authorities finally intervened and stopped the trials.
The Salem Witch Trials would probably not have gone very far had the girls named very respectable people first, but they first named outcasts, people who were already suspect by the community, such as Sarah Good (an irritable beggar) and Sarah Osborne (a bedridden old woman who rarely went to church). But soon the accused included highly unlikely people: the arrests of Rebecca Nurse (a pious, elderly matriarch, highly respected by the community) and Martha Corey (pious and respected, but skeptical about the credibility of the girls) shocked Salem; it meant that anybody could be a witch.
The youngest accused: four-year-old Dorothy Good, the daughter of Sarah Good, who probably confessed to be with her mother in jail. While spared, Dorothy lost her mother and was traumatized for the rest of her life.
Now the Salem Witch Trials are invoked to recall Joseph McCarthy's legacy or any other irrational panic that leads to scapegoats.
The youngest accused: four-year-old Dorothy Good, the daughter of Sarah Good, who probably confessed to be with her mother in jail. While spared, Dorothy lost her mother and was traumatized for the rest of her life.
Now the Salem Witch Trials are invoked to recall Joseph McCarthy's legacy or any other irrational panic that leads to scapegoats.
by Lorelili July 28, 2011
Get the Salem Witch Trialsmug. by Dude Regular November 3, 2010
Get the I am not a witchmug. When you pass out in the bathroom from too much drugs or alcohol while in the process of taking an explosive, messy bowel movement. Often makes an incredible mess.
To her horror, Sally walked into the bathroom and discovered someone had killed the Wicked Witch of the East.
Sometimes you think you get rid of the Wicked Witch of the East and the Wicked Witch of the West comes around.
See also Wicked Witch, Wicked Witching, The Wicked Witch of the West
Sometimes you think you get rid of the Wicked Witch of the East and the Wicked Witch of the West comes around.
See also Wicked Witch, Wicked Witching, The Wicked Witch of the West
by @WhoaBigBill January 28, 2018
Get the The Wicked Witch of the Eastmug. me explaining celestia ludenberg's execution: "celestia ludenberg's execution was entitled 'the burning of versailles witch'. she was supposedly going to pass from burning in a fire during her execution, but ended up being hit by a fire truck."
person: i never asked to learn about that
me: but its the burning of the versailles witch
person: i do not care
person: i never asked to learn about that
me: but its the burning of the versailles witch
person: i do not care
by celestes regression November 28, 2020
Get the burning of the versailles witchmug. Someone who has gained incredible and inexplicable commercial success. E.g. Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey.
by The great definer March 8, 2005
Get the market witchmug. A Night Witch is code for a young boy's first nocturnal emission. It references an achievement gained on the phone app, Clash Royale.
by Chriscrass Apple Sass March 14, 2019
Get the Night Witchmug.