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Blair Witch (film)


in a sound stage where the House was entirely built. Prior to the film's premiere at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con, the fact that the film was a "Blair Witch" sequel remained a closely guarded secret, as the film was shot under the title "The Woods". According to the film's writer, Barrett, the film's secrecy was done to prevent backlash among Internet commenters, who the filmmakers felt would react negatively to news of a reboot. Prior to the official premiere, Lionsgate went
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Witches of East End (TV series)


Wilmington, North Carolina, where several scenes were shot. On October 29, 2012, the crew moved for a week to Macon, Georgia, where they filmed the wedding scenes for the pilot at the historical Hay House. When the network Lifetime announced "Witches of East End" was going to be a series, it was also revealed that filming the rest of the series would happen in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, instead of continuing in Wilmington, NC. Maggie Friedman announced on Twitter on June 10 that she
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The Blair Witch Project


top-ten list of "The Hollywood Reporter"s highest-grossing independent films of all time, ranking number six. Director Eli Roth has cited the film as a marketing influence to promote his own 2002 horror film "Cabin Fever" through the Internet. "The Blair Witch Project" is listed in the book "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die". After the film was released, in late November 1999, the historic house where it was filmed was reportedly being overwhelmed by film fans who broke off chunks as
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Vasilisa the Beautiful (1939 film)


of a tall pine. At the witche's house meanwhile, the witch suggests Vasilissa to marry her brother, she would live in a palace and be rich, but Vasilissa refuses again. In the meantime the warrior has arrived in the forest, where the invisible witch gives him a beating, but he resists. Then she invokes an enchanted bear for him. Only barely can he escape it's paws, but finally defeats it, spares it and thus becomes friends with the bears of the forest. In a third strike
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Evil Queen (Disney)


She makes small cameo appearances in the animated series "Disney's House of Mouse", voiced by Susanne Blakeslee (where she is seen sitting with Lady Tremaine in her queen form, and with Madam Mim and Witch Hazel in her witch form) and in the films "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988) and "Runaway Brain" (1995), shown there in her witch form. In the live-action television special "Disney's Golden Anniversary of Snow White" (1987), the Queen is played
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Superstition (1982 film)


by the witch. Melinda attempts to venture downstairs, but discovers Justin's body hanging in the doorway. She is then attacked by the witch, who corner her into the kitchen where she beats her brutally. Upstairs, Ann and Sheryl are startled by the commotion. George attempts to intervene, and David subsequently arrives at the house, bearing the crucifix. George barricades himself in his bedroom, and discovers Melinda's bloodied body in their bed. The witch appears in the window and causes a mirror in the room to explode
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The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)


of the North and the Munchkins welcome her as a heroine, as the falling house has killed the Wicked Witch of the East. Her sister, the Wicked Witch of the West, arrives to claim the slippers, but Glinda transports them onto Dorothy's feet first. The Wicked Witch of the West swears revenge on Dorothy, then vanishes. Glinda tells Dorothy to keep the slippers on and follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, where she can ask the Wizard of Oz to help her get back home. On
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Garbutt House


Garbutt-Hathaway Estate has long been a popular filming location, dating back to the silent film era. In 1981, a low-budget Carolco horror film called "Superstition" (about a haunted house on the site where a woman was put to death as a witch 300 years earlier) was shot at Garbutt House. The shooting of "Superstition" was reportedly subject to incidents of alleged "haunting", including one in which a security guard who was required to spend the night in the house quit after reporting he
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Return from Witch Mountain


was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in the autumn of 1978, several months after the film's release. "Return from Witch Mountain" would be his final movie appearance, as he died the following January. The emergency voice heard over Yokomoto's van radio—announcing the problem at the plutonium plant—is that of Gary Owens. Filming started on April 11, 1977. The otherwise vacant lot, upon which the children's dilapidated hideout mansion stands, was at the Alameda Street railroad yard in California, where the Rochester House
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Season of the Witch (1973 film)


named Marion Hamilton (Virginia Greenwald) who is rumored to practice witchcraft. Prompted by curiosity, Joan and one of her friends, Shirley (Anne Muffley), drive over to Marion's house one night for a Tarot reading. It turns out that Marion is the leader of a local secret witches' coven. Joan and Shirley drive home to Joan's house, where they meet Gregg (Raymond Laine), a student teacher at Nikki's college (with whom Nikki has a very casual sexual relationship). The four
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Hocus Pocus (1993 film)


Hill in Marblehead, where Max is accosted by Ice and Jay, the Old Town Hall in Salem, where the town Halloween party takes place, and Phipps Elementary School, where the witches are trapped in a kiln. The exterior for Max and Dani's house is a private residence on Ocean Avenue in Salem. The film was released to VHS in North America on January 5, 1994 and later to DVD on June 4, 2002. Following the film's release on the latter format, it has continued to show strong
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Beyond Darkness


Beyond Darkness () is an Italian horror film directed by Claudio Fragasso. "Beyond Darkness" is a standard Italian horror film of the "haunted house" subgenre (a combination of "The Amityville Horror" and "The Exorcist"), but was distributed very poorly. A priest and his family move into a new house, without knowing that it was built over the place where twenty witches were burnt at the stake. Soon the terror begins, with the house terrorizing its inhabitants (a la "Amityville Horror"
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Virgin Witch


was in fact "Crossroads" producer Beryl Vertue. "Virgin Witch" was filmed in Surrey during 1970 and previewed in the December editions of "Mayfair" and "Continental Film Review" (in which the title was stated to be "The Virgin Witch"). However, the film is copyrighted as a 1971 production, and censorship problems would mean it was not widely seen until 1972. The country house location, Admiral's Walk in Pirbright, Surrey, would be later used by Norman J. Warren for his films
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Witching & Bitching


the loot at the witches' house. They return but are swiftly captured by the witches with the exception of Sergio, who escapes but is ultimately re-captured by Maritxu. At this point José learns that Sergio will be used as part of an arcane ritual to Graciana's goddess and that the rest of them will likely be killed as part of the ritual. Silvia, who has been following the men's trail throughout the film, manages to find the witches' house in time to see Sergio get carried into the
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The Wicked (2013 film)


Sammy. The Witch kills Mahoney and attacks Karl inside the house. Sammy finds Max, and as she tries to escape with him, they find Zach on the table and save him. They find a bottle designed to capture the witch and decide to use it. The Witch runs away at first but then attacks them and start to drain their souls. They manage to burn her using the flamethrower given to Max by his grandpa, who is revealed to have been a witch hunter. When the police search the house later
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Superstition (1982 film)


, the shards of it slashing George to death. David attempts to save Ann and Sheryl, but Sheryl flees into the attic to hide, where the witch kills her by driving a stake through her head. David instructs Ann to go outside and wait in his van, and is attacked by the witch moments later, but she vanishes before she is able to kill him. David exits the house, and finds Ann's dead body inside his van. Despondent, he takes cans of gasoline to the pond, pours them
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Day Watch (film)


a wall in this house. Moscow reverts to its normal, undemolished state and the film returns to 1992 and the first scene of "Night Watch". In the epilogue, as a result of the Chalk's influence, Anton rethinks his deal with the witch, and therefore never inadvertently agrees to harm his wife's unborn child, who would have been Yegor. He walks out of the house and into the street, where he meets Svetlana. Zavulon and Gesser watch them from a park bench, eager to see if
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The Witches (novel)


return to England, where he was born and was in school, and where the house he is inheriting is located. The grandmother warns the boy to be on his guard, however, since English witches are known to be among the most vicious in the world, notorious for turning children into loathsome creatures so that unsuspecting adults kill them. The grandmother reveals that witches in different countries have different customs; and that while the witches in each country have close affiliations with one another, they are not allowed to communicate with witches
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Don't Knock Twice (film)


message on the wall before being taken through the same portal that previously appeared. She wanders through the vast woods into a cave where she finds a cage hanging from the ceiling with Chloe in it. Jess gets her out and rushes to escape with her as the witch pursues them; meanwhile, Detective Boardman has arrived at the witch's house and proceeds to knock twice, causing the door to open on its own. He enters the home, having heard the sounds of Jess and Chloe's voices. Chloe and Jess are
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The Witches (1966 film)


them. An inquest is set for Monday and Gwen states she will tell everything she knows at that time. Stephanie takes Gwen to recuperate at her house, where Dr. Wallis (Leonard Rossiter) gives her a tetanus injection. Gwen wakes in the night to see an African object on her bedside table, which frightens her. She gets out of bed and calls for Stephanie, but when she opens the door she is apparently met by the same body-masked witch doctor she encountered in Africa. She faints into a relapse
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Lovecraftian horror


Society, is a largely successful cinematic version of Lovecraft's story, using silent film techniques to mimic the feel of a film that might have been made at the time Lovecraft's story was written (1926). 2005's "The Dreams in the Witch-House" was a faithful adaptation of Lovecraft's story "The Dreams in the Witch House" directed by Stuart Gordon, as an episode of the TV series "Masters of Horror". 2007's "The Tomb", directed by Ulli Lommel, though it
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Good Witch of the North


Her role was significantly expanded in the 1902 musical extravaganza, in which L. Frank Baum named her Locasta. The character was more famously conflated with that of Glinda, the Good Witch of the South, for the 1939 film version. In the original novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", the Good Witch of the North is summoned to the Munchkin Country when Dorothy Gale's falling house kills the Wicked Witch of the East. She arrives at the site of the Wicked Witch's death with three Munchkins and is the only
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Witch post


A witch post is a local superstition where the cross of Saint Andrew is used as a hex sign on the fireplaces in northern England of Yorkshire and Lancashire to prevent witches from flying down the chimney and entering the house to do mischief. By placing the St Andrew's cross on one of the fireplace posts or lintels, witches are prevented from entering through this opening. In this case, it is similar to the use of a witch ball, although the cross will actively prevent witches from entering, and the witch ball will
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The Blair Witch Project


souvenirs. The township ordered the house demolished the next month. In September 1999, D.A. Stern compiled "The Blair Witch Project: A Dossier". Building on the film's "true story" angle, the dossier consisted of fabricated police reports, pictures, interviews, and newspaper articles presenting the film's premise as fact, as well as further elaboration on the Elly Kedward and Rustin Parr legends. (Another "dossier" was created for ""). Stern wrote the 2000 novel "Blair Witch: The Secret Confessions
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910 film)


onward and find the Tin Woodsman. They oil him and find Eureka the cat. When they enter a forest, Momba the Witch flies out the window as her soldiers come out of the cottage, they are all captured and led into the witch's jail-house. Dorthy splashes water on Momba and kills her. After defeating the witch, the travelers arrive at the Emerald City for the retirement party of the Wizard, who names the Scarecrow king and leaves in a balloon. The credits to this film are lost,
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The Witches (1990 film)


they are delivered Ernst's trunk full of money and an address book of all witches in the United States. That night, Miss Irvine pays a visit to the house and uses her power to return Luke to his human body and return his pet mice, along with his glasses, before leaving to repeat the process with Bruno. "The Witches" was adapted from the children's book of the same title by British author Roald Dahl. It was the final film that Jim Henson personally worked on before his death, the
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Witch house (genre)


as Unicode symbols. Many works by witch house visual artists incorporate themes, from horror films such as "The Blair Witch Project", the television series "Twin Peaks", horror-inspired dark web videos and mainstream pop culture celebrities. Common typographic elements in artist and track names include triangles, crosses and Unicode symbols, which are seen by some as a method of keeping the scene underground and harder to search for on the Internet as well as references to the television series "Twin Peaks" and "Charmed".
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Witch camp


A witch camp is a settlement where women suspected of being witches can flee for safety, usually in order to avoid being lynched by neighbours. Witch camps exist solely in Ghana, where there are at least six of them, housing a total of around 1000 women. Such camps can be found at Bonyasi, Gambaga, Gnani, Kpatinga, Kukuo and Naabuli, all in Northern Ghana. Some of the camps are thought to have been set up over 100 years ago. Many women in such camps are widows and it is
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Hansel and Gretel (1983 TV special)


transforms into a small toy robot which leads them to a house made of gingerbread and candy. As the children eat the house's façade, the candy cane-nosed witch who lives within the gingerbread house lures them inside with the promise of sweets. The witch brings the children to her dining table where an enormous cake sits, adorned with small cutouts of Hansel and Gretel. When the children try to eat the cake, they find that it is only a decoration. The witch then tells them the furniture and even the
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The Good Witch


The Good Witch is a television film that aired on the Hallmark Channel on January 19, 2008. It stars Catherine Bell as Cassandra Nightingale and Chris Potter as Chief of Police Jake Russell. The film has spawned ten sequels and a television series. Grey House—an old, abandoned building in the town of Middleton—is infamous for being haunted by its former owner, known as "The Grey Lady." Police Chief Inspector Jake Russell decides to investigate when rumors start to spread of someone occupying the house. He enters
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The Witches and the Grinnygog (TV series)


town elder who apparently witnessed the witch-burning and wrote an account of the event in a journal: however, he died before revealing the final clue about the escaped witches. Another clue is the arrival of an African witch doctor, named Mr. Alabaster, who is seeking out the witches to help them. The story ends with the witches reunited with the daughter and taken away by Mr. Alabaster to someplace where they will be safe, along with the Grinnygog. The TV series was filmed in and around Titchfield and Bishop's
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Grand High Witch


secret societies of demonic witches that exist in various countries, as they are not allowed to contact each other. The Grand High Witch's headquarters is a great castle in Norway, where she has a magic money-printing machine and lives with large retinue of special Assistant Witches, tyrannically ruling over all the witches anywhere and plotting ever more harm to children everywhere. The current Grand High Witch, who is unnamed in the book but goes under the alias of Eva Ernst (Miss Eva / Miss Ernst) in the film,
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The Witches (1990 film)


of the world's witches, attending their annual meeting under the name Eva Ernst. Inside the ballroom where the witches hold their meeting, Luke spies upon them as the Grand High Witch unveils her latest creation: a magic potion to turn children into mice, which they will use on confectionery products in sweet shops and candy stores to be opened using money provided by her. Having already been given the formula a few hours earlier, Bruno is brought into the room, where he turns into a mouse and flees. Luke is
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Conjurer (film)


his wife. Authorities are called to the scene and Shawn tries to explain the story of the witch, only to be told that there is no witch and that the neighbors (who had told him the story) never existed. He's then taken to a mental institution, leaving Helen to live in the house by herself. The film ends with Helen listening to a phone message from Shawn and then turning to the camera with a malevolent look, leaving it up to the viewer to decide if the events in the film
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Oz the Great and Powerful


, various other races of Oz are depicted besides the Munchkins; the Quadlings, the china doll inhabitants of Dainty China Country, and the Winkies (who went unnamed in the 1939 film). Similarly, Glinda is referred to by her title in the novel (the Good Witch of the South), unlike the 1939 film, where her character's title is "Good Witch of the North" (due to her character being merged with the Good Witch of the North). Glinda is also the daughter of the late
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Witch Week


in some worlds but does not know this one. "Witch Week" is set in an alternative modern-day Great Britain, identical to our world except for the presence of witchcraft. Despite witches being common, witchcraft is illegal and punishable by death by burning, policed by a modern-day Inquisition. At Larwood House, a boarding school where many of the children of executed witches are sent, a note claiming "Someone in this class is a witch" is found by a teacher. This launches an internal investigation
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The Witches of Eastwick (film)


is Rhode Island, but the novel sets the time during the late 1960s. In the novel, Daryl is more devil-like: less of an enabler and more of a selfish, perverse predator and architect of mayhem. Also, the film omits a key episode in the book, where Daryl unexpectedly marries a young, innocent girl named Jenny, and the jealous three witches magically cause her to die of cancer. None of the three witches get pregnant and at the end Darryl flees town with Jenny's younger brother,
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The Witches of Eastwick (film)


library were sets built on the Warner Bros. backlot. Prior to filming, a small carving shop led by woodcarver Paul McCarthy was commissioned to hand-carve all the wooden signs for the businesses shown in the movie, including the newspaper where Michelle Pfeiffer's character worked – "The Eastwick Word". The musical score for "The Witches of Eastwick" was composed by John Williams. A soundtrack album was released by Warner Bros. Records in 1987. "The Witches of Eastwick" received positive reviews. It currently holds a rating
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The Damned (2013 film)


Ramón. The witch (Lauren) taunts them by revealing that David turned off Marcela's life support without telling Jill. After they bring Lauren back to the house, David insists they find a way to cure her, but Morales says it is not possible. The witch frees herself from Lauren, kills Morales, and promises to let Jill live if David will sacrifice himself, as the witch does not want to inhabit Lauren's injured body. David initially refuses, but, after the witch appears to him as Marcela and
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A-Haunting We Will Go (1966 film)


the 2003 "Duck Dodgers" series. It is Halloween and Daffy Duck's nephew (essentially a child-sized version of Daffy) goes trick-or-treating as a witch, in the same outfit that Bugs Bunny wore in "Broom-Stick Bunny". He soon visits Witch Hazel's house. He runs home screaming like a girl after being scared by Witch Hazel's hideous face (however Witch Hazel's skin is more yellow instead of green). At home, Daffy's nephew tries to explain to
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The Chronicles of Narnia (TV series)


two girls jump on Aslan's back and they fly to the White Witch's house, where Aslan's restores all the Witch's victims – including Tumnus – back to life from their stone forms. By the time Aslan and the restored statues return to the battlefield, the fight is in full swing and the Witch has already turned a number of Aslan's followers into stone. Edmund brings his sword down on the Witch's wand, breaking it, and the Witch herself is chased to the top of a ravine by Peter
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The Great Movie Ride


Next, the ride vehicle passed a film projection of Mickey Mouse in his role as the Sorcerer's Apprentice from Walt Disney's animated film, "Fantasia." The ride vehicle then entered into the Munchkinland scene from "The Wizard of Oz," where Dorothy's house had landed on the Wicked Witch of the East. When both the #1A and #2B ride vehicles were in use, they met up here and came to a stop in the middle of the scene. Audio-Animatronic Munchkins began to appear from
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Superstition (1982 film)


Superstition is a 1982 American supernatural slasher film directed by James W. Roberson and starring James Houghton, Albert Salmi, and Lynn Carlin. The plot follows a family who move into a house that was once the site of a witch's execution. Though shot in 1981, "Superstition" was not released in US before 1985. In the United Kingdom, the film was banned during the "video nasty" panic, though it would subsequently be released uncut under the title The Witch. Two young men are brutally murdered by an
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La strega in amore


La strega in amore (also known as "The Witch", "The Witch in Love" and "Strange Obsession") is a 1966 Italian drama-horror film directed by Damiano Damiani. It is based on the novel "Aura" by Carlos Fuentes. "La strega in amore" was released on September 11, 1966 in Italy where it was distributed by Cidif. The film grossed a total of 203,396,000 Italian lira domestically. It was released in the United States in August 1969 where it was distributed by G.G.
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The Naked Witch


The Naked Witch is a color, regional 1964 American horror film, produced by Claude Alexander, and written and directed by Larry Buchanan. It stars Libby Hall, Robert Short and Jo Maryman. The film was shot in 1960 and has a copyright date of 1961 but was not released until 1964. It tells the story of a university student who travels to Texas, where he inadvertently restores a dead witch to life. She then takes revenge on the Schöennig family, one of whom, her lover, had denounced her a
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The Witches (1990 film)


room, Miss Irvine, Ernst's assistant who has become disillusioned by her mistress's harsh treatment of her and banning her from the celebration, quits working with the witches and thus gets spared from what is about to happen. The formula turns all the witches into mice, and the staff and hotel guests join in killing them, unknowingly ridding England of its witches. The Grand High Witch herself dies at the hands of Mr. Stringer, and Helga returns Bruno to his parents. Luke and Helga return to their home, where
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Harry Oliver


where I got the adobe." Besides his work on film sets, Oliver's known professional designs date from the 1920s onward. The elaborate gingerbread Willat-Spadena Witch House (1921), "perhaps the ultimate example of Storybook Style" , with no two windows or angles alike, was originally built on the set of the Irvin Willat Film Studio in Culver City, then moved to Beverly Hills in 1934 and converted to a private residence. Another of Oliver's designs was the original Van de Kamp Bakery windmill, the
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Terror (1978 film)


inspired by the Italian "giallo" horror film "Suspiria" (1977). Warren's plans for a sequel remain unrealised. Three hundred years ago, the witch Mad Dolly is captured on the orders of Lord Garrick. She is about to be burned at the stake when she invokes the Devil, causing one of her executioners to catch fire. Garrick rushes back to his house, where a disembodied arm bursts through a wall and strangles him. Lady Garrick is confronted by a sword-wielding Mad Dolly, who beheads
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House (1986 film)


production moved operations to Ren-Mar Studios in Hollywood, where two floors of the interior of the Monrovia house were recreated on sound stages. This included sets for the living room, staircase, den and three upstairs bedrooms. On a separate adjacent set, the jungle exteriors for the Vietnam flash-back scenes were also built on sound stages, taking three days to put together. A total of seven monsters were designed and fabricated for the production. These creatures - which included the obese witch, the zombified corpse of Big
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Witch house (genre)


friend Shams... were joking about the sort of house music we make, [calling it] witch house because it’s, like, occult-based house music. ...I did this best-of-the-year thing with Pitchfork about witch house... I was saying that we were witch house bands, and 2010 was going to be the year of witch house... It took off from there. ...But, at the time, when I said witch house, it didn’t even really exist..." Shortly
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Weigh house


at times brought to a weigh house in order to be subjected to a "witch test" to "prove" their innocence for payment (as nobody was deemed to be a witch after this test). If a person was found to be lighter than a set weight, he or she was deemed guilty. This is similar to the use of a ducking stool. Weigh houses were especially common in the Netherlands, Germany, where they are called "waag" and "waage" respectively (both meaning "scale"
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Season of the Witch (2011 film)


on "Gone in 60 Seconds". Development on the film began in 2000 when the spec script by screenwriter Bragi F. Schut was purchased by MGM. The project moved from MGM to Columbia Pictures to Relativity Media, where the film was finally produced by Charles Roven and Alex Gartner. Filming took place primarily in Austria, Hungary, and Croatia. "Season of the Witch" was released on January 7, 2011, in the United States, Canada, and several other territories. In Villach in the 13th century, three
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Laura Sadler


part of Skirty Marm in a BBC1 children's comedy, "Belfry Witches". Skirty Marm and her friend Old Noshie (Lucy Davis) were teenage witches banished to Earth from Witch Island, settling in a sleepy village where they caused mischief. In 1996 she starred in the feature film "Intimate Relations" alongside Julie Walters, where she played a Lolita-like girl with a crush on her mother's adulterous lover. She joined the cast of "Holby City", a spin-off series from the long-
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Hocus Pocus (1993 film)


witches pursue them to a cemetery, where Winifred raises her unfaithful lover Billy Butcherson as a zombie to chase them on foot. The witches try to acclimate to the 20th century, but are horrified when they discover Halloween has become a holiday. The witches plan to achieve their goals or they will be disintegrated at sunrise. They pursue the children across town using Mary's enhanced sense of smell. Max, Allison and Dani find their parents at a Halloween party at the town hall, where Winifred enchants the partygoers to dance and
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Vacaciones de terror


years later in 1989, a family came to spend their vacations in a summer house located in the same immediate rural area where the witch was burned. The problem arises when the little daughter Gaby, falls into the well where they were sealed the witch's belongings along with her spirit and power, Gaby finds and takes an ugly doll that, when removed from the pit, breaks the seal and fulfills the curse by releasing the spirit of the witch that possesses the doll and begins to take control over the children, especially
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The Naked Witch


Something Weird Video. Academic film scholar Heather Greene writes that the film was part of the "growing sexploitation or 'nudie' industry" when it was made. However, the greater significance of "The Naked Witch" is that it is "the first to use the resurrected witch narrative and the ghost horror witch." In the years after the film, "the resurrected witch theme becomes increasingly popular and eventually dominates witch films by the early 2000s (e.g., "The Blair Witch Project", 1999)."
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Arun Barun O Kiranmala


Arun Barun O Kiranmala (also known as: Arun-Barun-Kiranmala) is a 1979 Bengali Fantasy film, directed by Barun Kabasi and produced by Dolphin Films. Arun, Barun and Kiranmala are orphaned siblings. One day they go in search of their parents. They first visit the Jogini Durbar where they are helped with magical items like a golden stick. Then they go to Maya Puri where they find fairy spirits trapped by the witch of the Maya Puri. After overcoming many hurdles they finally kill the witch and help
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Wicked Witch of the West


The Wicked Witch of the West is a fictional character created by American author L. Frank Baum as the antagonist in his classic children's novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900). In Baum's subsequent "Oz" novels, it is the Nome King who is the principal villain; the Wicked Witch of the West is rarely even referred to again after her death in the first book. The witch's most popular depiction was in the classic 1939 film based on Baum's novel, where she was portrayed by
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Witches' mark


are also referred to as witch marks or witches' marks. Marks have been found at Knole House, at Shakespeare's Birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon, at the Tower of London, and many churches, but little effort has been made to find them on secular buildings. The marks are most common near places where witches were thought to be able to enter, whether doors, windows or chimneys. At the Bradford-on-Avon Tithe Barn, a flower-like pattern of overlapping circles is incised into a
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Blair Witch (film)


he barricades himself. Lisa spots the unknown entity, a tall, pale, long-limbed creature moving through the trees, and she runs into the house's basement. She finds an aged and hostile Lane who traps her in an underground tunnel, saying, “you have to do what she tells you.” The tunnel connects to a different part of the house, where Lisa stabs and kills Lane when he attacks her. Lisa flees when the long-limbed creature emerges from the tunnel and chases her through the
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The Wicked (2013 film)


in the basement with an apple in her mouth. They manage to escape into the woods with the witch in pursuit. Once at the campsite they are shocked to find Carter's truck missing and their tent and other camping gear are gone. With the town 10 miles away and the nearest ranger station 4 miles away, they decide to walk rather than wait for the Witch to catch them. Max shoots a video asking whoever finds the footage to burn the house down as the myth is real. The Witch then abducts Max
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The Good Witch's Garden


The Good Witch's Garden is a Hallmark Channel television film, the sequel to "The Good Witch". It premiered on Hallmark Channel on February 7, 2009. Cassie Nightingale (Catherine Bell) has settled into Middleton and is busy making Grey House into a bed and breakfast. Her boyfriend, Chief of Police Jake Russell (Chris Potter), and his kids, Brandon (Matthew Knight) and Lori (Hannah Endicott-Douglas), are happy to have Cassie in the neighborhood, but before long, a stranger
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Blair Witch (film)


Blair Witch is a 2016 American found footage supernatural horror film directed by Adam Wingard and written by Simon Barrett. It is the third and final film in the "Blair Witch" series and a direct sequel to the 1999 film "The Blair Witch Project", ignoring the events of its 2000 follow-up film "", given the events of that film being a film within a film. "Blair Witch" stars James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Brandon Scott, Corbin Reid, Valorie Curry and Wes Robinson.
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Winkie Country


most famous depiction of the Winkies is in the 1939 musical film where they appear as the regimental army of the Wicked Witch of the West, marching in formation and chanting repeatedly. In the film, the Winkies bear little or no resemblance to their literary counterparts, dressing in blue uniforms based loosely on the uniforms of the Russian streltsy of some three and a half centuries earlier, and having green skin and pointed noses much like the Wicked Witch herself, and they are never referred to as Winkies in the film. The Winkie
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Season of the Witch (1973 film)


desperately hammy (Anne Muffly) to the dangerously laid-back (Ray Laine)." The review concluded that "there is enough evidence here of Romero's quirky talent to maintain interest throughout" In a review of the "Season Of The Witch" home video, "The A.V. Club" compared the film to Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" stating that the film "looks significantly less impressive [...] Where "Night Of The Living Dead" sandwiched some undistinguished, talky bits featuring actors of widely
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Satan's Slave (1976 film)


film "Fragment" (1965). The film was largely shot in and around the country house of the Baron and Baroness DeVeuce in Pirbright, Surrey over three weeks in December 1975. The house had previously appeared in Tigon's "Virgin Witch" (1971) and would also be used as a shooting location for Warren's later film, "Terror" (1978). Warren remembers the challenges that the production was facing due to the low budget and how production designer Hayden Pearce found the DeVeuce house: "Most
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Mr. and Mrs. Beaver


White Witch's police. Mr. Beaver introduces himself and takes him back to his house where he and Mrs. Beaver shelter them at their home. They tell the children of Aslan and his return, and of the prophecy that the children's coming heralds the end of the Witch's reign. During their conversation, Edmund creeps away to seek the Witch. When Edmund's absence is discovered, Mr. Beaver is sure that he has gone to betray them to the Witch, so they hurry to join Aslan's camp. Edmund meanwhile
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The Axeman Cometh (American Horror Story)


out a letter, which is printed in the news read in Miss Robichaux's Academy. The witches debate whether to play jazz music, which the manifesto claims will spare them from murder. A bold witch, Millie exclaims that they will not be taken. Later, she leads the Axeman from a bar to the Coven. He prowls the house quietly, stopping the recording in a room where the witch reads Tarot. He then proceeds to kill her but she uses teleportation and stabs him. The other witches then emerge from
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Curse of the Witching Tree


, accused of murdering her son and hanged as a witch, curses a tree and the children who play around it. The effects of this act of revenge echo through the years and centuries, and restless spirits haunt the house where the bodies of the cursed children have been buried. A family move into their new home, and begin to uncover the terrible truth behind The Witching Tree and the murdered children upon which they unknowingly sleep. "Curse of the Witching Tree" holds a 13% audience approval score on Rotten Tomatoes
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Witch Hunt (1994 film)


Witch Hunt (1994) is an HBO fantasy detective television film directed by Paul Schrader and starring Dennis Hopper and Eric Bogosian. The film, written by Joseph Dougherty, is a sequel to the 1991 film "Cast a Deadly Spell". The original music score was composed by Angelo Badalamenti. Hopper stars as 1950s hardboiled private detective H. Phillip Lovecraft, in a fictional universe where magic is real, monsters and mythical beasts stalk the back alleys, zombies are used as cheap labor, and everyone—except Lovecraft—uses magic
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Scarlet Witch


a prisoner of Baron Strucker (Thomas Kretschmann). Scarlet Witch became a supporting character in the 2015 film "", where the siblings initially conspire with Ultron (James Spader) but later defect to the Avengers. Quicksilver dies in the ensuing conflict while Wanda goes on to become a member of Captain America's Avengers. She appears in the 2016 film "". Both Olsen and Aaron Taylor-Johnson signed multi-picture deals. Olsen reprises the role in the 2018 film "" and its 2019 sequel "" and
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Escape to Witch Mountain (1975 film)


of the "Witch Mountain" films. The second and sequel film, "Return from Witch Mountain", recast the child lead actors Ike Eisenmann as Tony, and Kim Richards, as Tia. In September 1978, "Return from Witch Mountain" was released to theaters on a double bill with "Escape to Witch Mountain" (1975). In 1982, "Beyond Witch Mountain" was produced as a television movie and broadcast on CBS through "Walt Disney", which serves as the third and final film in
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Witch from Nepal


a good witch who gets Joe to return to Nepal to fight a cat-like demon with supernatural powers. The film was part of a trend of supernatural film productions from Hong Kong about Chinese tourists in exotic South Asian locations. It grossed $4.2 million Hong Kong dollars on its theatrical run in Hong Kong. The film was nominated for two awards at the 6th Hong Kong Film Awards, where director Chin Siu-tung won the Best Action Choreography Award. While on vacation in Nepal, Joe Wong (Chow Yun-
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The Wicked (2013 film)


The Wicked is a 2013 American horror film directed by Peter Winther and starring Devon Werkheiser, Justin Deeley, and Nicole Forester. There is a local myth of a Witch whose spirit is said to inhabit an abandoned house known as Open Hearth. It is said the Witch eats children to live; girls to stay beautiful and young men for strength. Though the myth is initially regarded as superstition, it is proven to be real when a little girl named Amanda is snatched from her bedroom without a trace. Max is a teenager
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The Wicked (2013 film)


find the house and throw stones at it. Max's rock hits the window, and they run after seeing the Witch. Later that night Julie hears a whisper and finds a teddy bear which belongs to Amanda outside the camp. The four decide to check out the woods to find the kidnapped girl. They come near the abandoned house of the Witch and hear a child crying from inside. Julie decides to go in despite the warning from her friends. Zach joins her in the search, and they find Amanda tied up
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The Wicked (2013 film)


while Sammy screams. Zach and his friends lose their way and wander in circles due to the Witch's magic. Zach finds Max's bike and decides to go into the house again to rescue his brother. The others go into the woods in search of the nearest rangers station. The Witch kidnaps Carter and his girlfriend Tracy while Julie and Amanda hide under the bush. Zach finds Max in the basement and is knocked out by the Witch. Sammy reaches the nearby rangers station and calls the cops, who reject her call
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A-Haunting We Will Go (1966 film)


asks for a cup of cheese. Hazel just complains, but soon gets an idea. She grabs a special piece of cheese and feeds it to Speedy. Speedy turns into an identical copy of Witch Hazel and the real Witch Hazel asks him if he can act like her. Speedy, who is quite calm about this, says okay and runs around the house yelling his usual "Ándale, ándale, arriba, arriba, arriba, epa, epa." Witch Hazel says he still acts like himself but it will have
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Catalan mythology about witches


supposed to make seven laps around her house, make certain gestures and sprinkle everything with holy water, blessed leaves from Palm Sunday, or some other blessed object. (Note the remarkable contrast to traditions from elsewhere in Europe, where witches would shy away from any blessed object.) At the stroke of midnight, she would go to dance inside the oven; merely to come near a witch during any of this was said to be particularly dangerous. The witches of Alt Berguedà and Cadí were said to apply unguents, climb
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Negatives (1988 film)


shot by Ernest Dickerson. Horror film icon Duane Jones starred in "Negatives" as psychic researcher Charles Harmon. "Fright House" is a hybrid film and contains two sixty-minute (approx) features: "Fright House" and "ABADON". "Fright House", the first half stars Al 'Grandpa' Lewis, is about a coven of witches in an old mansion. "ABADON", the second half, is about a new female student Ione arriving at a private art school to join her boyfriend
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The House of Ghosts


The House of Ghosts (French: La maison ensorcelée, also known as The Witch House) is a 1908 French short film directed by Segundo de Chomón. The film features stop-motion animation and is considered to be one of the earliest cinematic depictions of a haunted house premise. Two men and a woman stop at a small house in the woods. Inside, they experience numerous instances of paranormal activity, including disappearing furniture; a stereotypical ghost; movement of cutlery and food on their own; ball lightning; unexplained tilting
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Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum


The Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum in Bristol, Connecticut is a collection of figures of classic movie monsters. The museum is owned by Bristol-native Cortlandt Hull. Cortlandt is the great nephew of film actor Henry Hull. Josephine Hull, well known for her role in the classic film and stage play Arsenic and Old Lace, is also a relative. In 1966, Cortlandt's father helped him build the Swiss chalet-style building to house the museum. Cortlandt built life-size figures of classic movie monsters that were
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The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)


ball to make Dorothy believe that Aunt Em may be dying of a broken heart. Dorothy races home, arriving just as a tornado strikes. Locked out of the farm's storm cellar, she seeks shelter in her bedroom. Wind-blown debris knocks her unconscious and the house is sent spinning in the air. She awakens to see various figures fly by, including Miss Gulch on her bicycle, who transforms into a witch on a broomstick. The house lands in Munchkinland in the Land of Oz. Glinda the Good Witch
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Cliff McNish


: The stories are set partly on Earth and also on the Witch Worlds of Ithrea and Ool. "The Doomspell" is about two young and gifted siblings, Rachel and Eric, who are dragged from the cellar of their house into Ithrea, a world of ice and snow ruled by a wicked witch called Dragwena. In "The Scent of Magic" the struggle returns to Earth, where the witches of Ool arrive to form children into armies against their ancient adversaries, the wizards. The final novel of the trilogy,
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Blair Witch (film)


, where the segments "were never meant to feel entirely real", an element that did not work for the "Blair Witch" series. Speaking on the issue to Bloody Disgusting, Barrett stated "even if our scares didn’t work in "V/H/S", hopefully people would still be entertained, and if they weren’t, well, another short would start in a few minutes"; he added that if a scare did not work in "Blair Witch", "we’d have nothing
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Nathaniel Bowditch House


Witch House". Concerned preservationists in the community formed Historic Salem, Inc. (HSI), in order to preserve them. The Bowditch House was moved to its present location in 1944, and the Witch House was moved within its lot to accommodate the widened road. It is believed that the original foundation of the Bowditch house may survive under the lawn of the Witch House. HSI restored the Witch House, but not the Bowditch House, which was taken over by the city in the 1960s for town offices. It was
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Blair Witch


a film adaptation based on the "Black Hills murders" that took place shortly after the events of "The Blair Witch Project". This documentary presents "Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2" as a film within a film. "Shadow of the Blair Witch" follows "the real James Patterson"'s defense team as the case prepares for trial and as the public reacts to plans to . Protests of the film "Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2" are discussed coming from both the families of those involved
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The Riddle (fairy tale)


Scottish variant "The Ridere of Riddles", but that there is no information to discern which is the source. There once was a prince who decided to go on a journey with his servant. In a dark forest, they came to a small house, where a maiden warned them that her stepmother was a witch who disliked strangers, but unfortunately there was nowhere else for shelter. The prince and his servant reluctantly entered the witch's house, but before they went to bed, the maiden warned the prince and his
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Basque witch trials


for a black sabbath. The village of Zugarramurdi holds the Witchcraft Museum highlighting the appalling events of the early 17th century, where the memory of the victim villagers is dignified. "Akelarre" was a 1984 Spanish film by Pedro Olea about these trials. The town of Zugarramurdi now celebrates the witches with a feast by the cave on Midsummer's eve, June 23, the folk date for the summer solstice. The Basque witch trials are also featured as a subplot in Season 4 of the HBO series True Blood, when the
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Fantaghirò 2


the Dark King is revealed to be Fantaghirò's father, who was bewitched to forget his true self. However, Romualdo's memories do not return. Fantaghirò, with the help of the White Witch, recreates the events of the previous film where they crossed paths for the first time. Romualdo starts to regain his memories but in doing so, it's revealed that a residue remnant of the Black Witch has been hiding in his mind, and the witch reappears to transforms Fantaghirò into a lowly creature off-screen. The
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The Witches (1990 film)


diabetes. Her doctor advises them to spend the summer by the sea. They stay at a seaside hotel, where Luke meets and befriends a gluttonous but friendly boy, Bruno Jenkins, while getting on the bad side of the hotel manager, Mr. Stringer, after his pet mice frighten a maid who is having an affair with the manager. Also staying at the hotel are a convention of witches, masquerading as the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, with the Grand High Witch, the all-powerful leader
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Season of the Witch (2011 film)


the knights to escort an alleged witch suspected of causing the plague to a remote monastery, where an elite group of monks reside. These monks can determine if the girl is truly a witch and if she is found guilty, know a sacred ritual to cancel her powers and stop the plague that is devastating Europe. The two knights agree under the condition she be given a fair trial and that the charges of desertion against them be dropped. The Cardinal agrees and they set out accompanied by a priest, Debelzaq; a young
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The Witching Hour (1934 film)


The Witching Hour is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Guy Standing, John Halliday, Judith Allen and Tom Brown. While Jack Brookfield (John Halliday) runs a gambling gathering at nighttime in his Kentucky house, his daughter Nancy (Judith Allen) is frequently visited by and becomes engaged to young Northern architect Clay Thorne (Tom Brown). His mother (Olive Tell), an old friend of Brookfield's, arrives from Baltimore to save her son from the vice of gambling,
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Day Watch (film)


scores of Others, but is almost immediately caught by a panicked Svetlana and an enraged Yegor. The two Great Others fight for Anton, but nearly kill him in the process. Saved at the last minute by Gesser, Anton runs through the ruins of Moscow to the house where he, fourteen years ago, made his visit to the witch — the visit that caused the entire sequence of events, starting Anton's own initiation into the Night Watch. Anton writes "NO" (нет; pronounced "nyet") on
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Sisters at Heart


the area where the 17th-century Salem witch trials took place. Don Marshall, who made a guest appearance in "Sisters at Heart" as Keith Wilson, was known for his role in "Land of the Giants", while Janee Michelle, who portrayed Dorothy Wilson in "Sisters at Heart", later became best known for her role in the 1974 horror film "The House on Skull Mountain". "Sisters at Heart" was Montgomery's favorite episode of the series. Reflecting on the episode in 1989,
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Bulong (film)


it was revealed that the woman was a witch and she wants to ask forgiveness to Lala, a girl to whom she placed a hex. She needs Conan to make her drink a potion that is made out of holy water and a part of the old woman's body to repeal the hex. She also warns that demonic forces will attempt to stop the resolution of the request. Conan and Oprah travels to Bohol, where the Lala lives. From the hotel in Panglao until their trip to Lala's house at the rural
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Torsåker witch trials


, Laurentius Hornæus' wife Britta Rufina, was quoted as saying: "I remember some of these witnesses, who by these methods were in lack of health for the rest of their lives". He adds that children were still, sixty years afterwards, afraid to go near the house where his grandfather lived. On 15 October 1674, the witch trial of Torsåker opened. About one hundred people, of both sexes, were accused by the children. Even though this was the biggest witch trial in the country, the
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Gävle Boy


. He became regarded as an expert on witches and abductions to Blockula; adults consulted him, and he could faint and pretend to be attacked by witches publicly. Soon, other children and teenagers, inspired by his stories, began to claim that they had been abducted and taken to Satan too, and the parents in the congregation of Catharina (Katarina) became worried. A witch-hysteria broke out, and the parents began to gather their children in houses where they could watch over them and protect them from being abducted
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Witching & Bitching


house. She enlists the help of the cops (as she knew that they had been following her) and the three of them manage to break into the house, where they find a secret passage that allows them to witness a dinner party Graciana is holding for various witches that will be attending the night's ritual. The secret passage, which was in the ceiling, ends up to be too weak to hold the weight of Silvia and both cops, and the trio ends up landing on the dinner table. José,
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The Wizard of Oz (2011 musical)


by a twister, and Dorothy runs home for shelter. Inside the farmhouse, she bangs her head on the bedside. The house is borne away by the storm. Landing in Oz, Dorothy's house flattens the Wicked Witch of the East. Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, greets Dorothy and tells her where she is. Glinda calls for the Munchkins to ("Come Out"). These little people, overjoyed at the demise of their wicked tormentor, welcome Dorothy and Toto ("Ding Dong the
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The Blair Witch Project


of horror "modernizing its ability to be all-encompassing in expressing the fears of American society". He noted that "In an age where anyone can film whatever they like, horror needn't be a cinematic expression of what terrifies the cinema-goer, it can simply be the medium through which terrors captured by the average American can be showcased". In 2008, "The Blair Witch Project" was ranked by "Entertainment Weekly" as number ninety-nine on their list of 100 Best Films from 1983 to
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