Witchcraft (disambiguation)

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Witchcraft is a supposed supernatural means of malevolent or harmful magic.

Witchcraft or witch may also refer to:

• the practice of magic in general
  • Maleficium (sorcery)
  • White witch
• a supposed pre-Christian religion as advocated by Murray and Gardner, see Witch Cult
  • contemporary Witchcraft in neopaganism
  • Stregheria, an 18th-century Italian version of the theory
  • Wicca, the neopagan religion based on Gardner's 1954 claims of a Witchcraft religion
• colloquially or figuratively, of certain aspects of the female gender role
  • the hag stock character
  • the femme fatale stock character

Film

• Witchcraft (1964 film), a horror film starring Lon Chaney Jr.
• Witchcraft (1988 film), a horror film that was first in a series of sixteen films
• La Casa 4, 1988 horror film starring Linda Blair and David Hasselhoff also released as Witchcraft

Music

• Witchcraft (band), a Swedish band

Albums

• Witchcraft (Witchcraft album)
• Witchcraft (Stormwitch album), 2004
• Witchcraft (Obtained Enslavement album), 1997

Songs

• "Witchcraft" (1955 song), a 1955 song by Dave Bartholomew and Pearl King which was an R&B hit that year for The Spiders and a 1963 B-side hit for Elvis Presley.
• "Witchcraft" (1957 song), a 1957 song by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh, best known in a recording by Frank Sinatra
• "Witchcraft" (Pendulum song), 2010
• "Witchcraft" (Book of Love song), 1989

Other uses

• Witchcraft (clipper), 1850 California clipper ship built in Salem, MA
• "Witchcraft", the codename given to the intelligence produced by the source Merlin, in John le Carré's novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

See also

• Witch (disambiguation)
• CJ Carella's WitchCraft, a Role-playing game