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102 replies

hellsbells552 · 28/10/2018 16:52

Trying a different way of coming up with some girls names - what ‘witchy’ names can you think of? Traditional or ‘out there’. I can only think of ‘Meg’ (Meg and Mog) and the obligatory Harry Potter references... 😂

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ShadyLady53 · 28/10/2018 17:41

Hecate

Iwant2move · 28/10/2018 17:43

Fenella from Chorlton and the Wheelies.

Witchy names
CatherineCawood · 28/10/2018 17:43

Elspeth

Racecardriver · 28/10/2018 17:47

Sabrina
Willow
Tabitha
Abigail
Elowen
Wren
Hazel
Heather
Luna
Stella
Primrose
Samantha
Bathsheba
Moira
Magdalene
Margot
Henrietta
Harriette
Esme
Zelda
Allegra

jmh740 · 28/10/2018 17:50

I went to a Halloween thing yesterday there was a witch there called Agnes

BillywigSting · 28/10/2018 17:54

Tiffany (aching), gytha (ogg) and esme (weatherwax) are the disc world witches and all very cool.

boomboo · 28/10/2018 17:59

Agnes
Bessie
Cassandra

playinthedarkness · 28/10/2018 18:07

Jenny, Circe, Hecate, morgan(na), Medea,
Cassandra, Freya.

SeeTwoTo · 28/10/2018 18:11

Lucrezia or Lucretia if it can be more gothy?

BlankTimes · 28/10/2018 18:15

Isobel (Gowdie)

blondeemily · 28/10/2018 18:19

Esmeralda. I don't know whether I've got that from somewhere (?) but it makes me think of witches anyway!

strawberrypenguin · 28/10/2018 18:24

Sabrina
Zelda
Hilda
Willow
Tara
Hermione
Luna
Mildred
Maud
Ethel

KarlDilkington · 28/10/2018 18:26

Hazel

FekkoThePenguin · 28/10/2018 18:27

Fenella
Evil Edna

FieryGhoulie · 28/10/2018 18:28

Alice, Alizon, Elizabeth, Jane Anne were all accused as our very own Pendle witches...

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendle_witches

🧙‍♀️

hellsbells552 · 28/10/2018 18:29

Loving these!!

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chicken75 · 28/10/2018 18:29

Isobel

EdwardScissorskills · 28/10/2018 18:34

Can’t believe someone got to Evil Edna before me. Halloween Envy

FekkoThePenguin · 28/10/2018 18:35

Crackles...

FekkoThePenguin · 28/10/2018 18:36

Hehehehehe

Witchy names
hellsbells552 · 28/10/2018 18:36

Lolly (Willowes)

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AliceLutherNeeMorgan · 28/10/2018 18:39

Sybil
Edna
Peg

BevBrook · 28/10/2018 18:43

Seraphina (Pekkala) and Ruta (Skadi) from His Dark Materials
Laura, Miriam and Winter from The Changeover
Sophie from Howls Moving Castle
Parvati, from both Midnights Children and Harry Potter (I have always wondered if Parvati Patil was named in homage to Parvati-the-Witch)
Nimue who puts a spell on Merlin
Morgan (le Fay)

Twisique · 28/10/2018 18:48

Eskarina

PhysaliaPhysalis · 28/10/2018 18:49

Oh, Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle is a good one!

Discworld: As well as the aforementioned Esme(relda), Gytha and Magrat, there were Agnes, Tiffany, Annagramma, Petulia, Dimity and Lucy. And Granny Aching was a Sarah. Plus Letitia and Black Aliss.