And how, with nothing but an army of peaceniks to counter the witches' Winkies?
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The Witches will qualify for the final stages of the competition if Peterborough win.
He confirmed that one of witchdoctors arrested on suspicion of identifying the witches was holding a firearm illegally.
Grandparents grumble that youngsters today are too preoccupied with PlayStations to be scared by the witches who roam the slopes outside their bedroom windows.
In between, we travel to Cittagazze, the world where children are safe but adults are in mortal danger, and meet the witches' flying goose.
Mila Kunis plays Theodora, the youngest of the witches.
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With a CV that includes staging Miss Saigon and Sunset Boulevard and choreography for Martin Guerre and The Witches of Eastwick, Bob Avian returned to A Chorus Line when he was asked to direct the 2006 Broadway revival.
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The Wicked Witches of the East and West are, respectively, played by Rachel Weisz and Mila Kunis.
To get started on the "Witches in the Air" project, Mr. Cobb took a trip to the Prado, where the painting had just been put back on display after being cleaned.
But with respect to the latter the burning of witches at the stake ended when the authorities stopped gratifying that desire.
And she reports a vision of her own, which she had while working with the English witches.
Rushmore of big, gruesome trag-edy, there are the Kennedys, and Lizzie Borden and her ax, and the burning witches at Salem, and then there's me.
Among the future research plans are to look at people who made trips to see the damage caused by earthquakes in Italy, and to examine the visitor industry around the Pendle Witches in Lancashire.
Until around the Fourteenth Century the Church scolded people who believed in witches and rejected the whole idea as a silly peasant superstition.
For centuries Europeans and, later, North Americans believed in the existence of witches.
But when you consider the movie is about the vampires, witches, and yes, even werewolves, it would have been nice to have had my flesh crawl just once.
The list includes dim-witted, power-crazed princes of the realm and witches, chief among them Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer, here, as in "Hairspray, " wonderfully full of rage about her lost youth).
Apart from blaming the Jews and fearing cells of heretics, the idea of covens of witches began to be taken more seriously by the Church.
The town is arranged higgledypiggledy up a steep hill, with narrow flights of steps between streets, and it is rumoured that some of the flights are haunted by those witches who met their end in the flames.
The souls of the dead were supposed to revisit their homes on Samhain, leading to the sinister superstition that ghosts, witches, devils, and fairies roamed the earth for that one day.
"Wicked, " based on Gregory Maguire's cult novel, tells the story of two young witches-to-be, one a green brooder who will be the Wicked Witch of the West and the other blond and bubbly, who will be Glinda the Good Witch.
This meant the two places where the Inquisition was most active were also the places where there was the least hysteria about witches.
Police also arrested a number of witchdoctors suspected of passing on the names of "witches" to people whose relatives had died "through witchcraft".
Beautiful Creatures is about a coven of witches living in the deep South and co-stars Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson.
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Masked chimney sweeps climb houses, witches shout at the audience accompanied by a band playing dissonant melodies, and bears demonstrate their strength.
Police in Tanzania say they have arrested a number of people suspected of murdering old women in the belief that they were witches .
This is despite the fact the craze was largely post-Medieval and for most of the Medieval period belief in witches was dismissed as superstitious nonsense.
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