The 10 Famous witches Known & most likely remembered - (Plus 3 to complete the coven)
- Sleeping Beauty - The story would have no power without the evil witch.
- The Witch of Rapunzel another witch from the coven of the Brothers Grimm. This witch uses her hair to climb to the top of the tower.
- The Wicked Witch of the West, featured in the Wizard of Oz.
- Samantha Stephens in Bewitched. The star of the show, a benign witch played by Elizabeth Montgomery.
- The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe - The Chronicles of Nania.
- Willow Rosenberg in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Alyson Hannigan made this witch memorable.
- The Blair Witch Project. Cult film where characters are lost in a Maryland wood.
- Anne Boleyn seems an unlikely witch; more a scapegoat for not bearing Henry VIII any children. However, she did have a sixth finger, a sure sign of a witch at least in the middle ages.
- The Witch of Endor is mentioned in the Bible: 'Behold there is a woman that has a familiar spirit at Endor entioned in the Bible.' 1 Samuel 28:7
- Old Dorothy Clutterbuck. An enigma, re-establishing the 'Wicca', in 20th century England.
- One of the oldest witches is Medea of Greek Mythology, she was involved with Jason of the Golden Fleece. Few later witches sunk to Medea's depths of killing their own children.
- The Witches of Eastwick. One of the best witches films, starring Jack Nicolson, Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon.
- Macbeth - Again not one witch but three!
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