planet-ruler

Noun

planet-ruler (plural planet-rulers)

1. (historical) A white witch.
   • There is a little fold, called ‘Prickshaw,’ in this township of Spotland, which fold was the home of a notable country astrologer, in Tim Bobbin's time, called ‘Prickshaw Witch.’ Tim tells a humourous^([sic]) story in his works, about an adventure he had with this Prickshaw planet-ruler, at the old...1855, Edwin Waugh, Sketches of Lancashire Life and Localities, page 25
   • In the late nineteenth century white witches were still sometimes known as ‘planet-rulers’.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 614