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THE WORDS WITCH AND WITCHCRAFT
Volume 5, entries 10409. Source context: ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS → HAG AND WITCH RETURN. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 10409
[The words witch and witchcraft are used many times in these volumes, words common down the Atlantic coast from Maryland through Florida. Here are several more to add to the long list: de man who do's de evil verk is called de Vitchcraft, and same informant adds, jis' lak if ah wan'a witch yuh now. [Wilmington, N. Car., 88:4+85.] Another informant says: huntin' fo' a job, go tuh a vitchcraft an' git a lucky "hand."
The editorial note reports wording about evil work. Its source forms remain literal; no person, universal term equivalence or actual effect is established.