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witch's teats

witch's teats is the plural of witch's teat.

Meaning of witch's teat

Noun

witch's teat (plural witch's teats)

  1. A raised bump or wart on a person's body, formerly believed in some English-speaking cultures to indicate that the person was a witch and used the wart to provide blood to familiars.
    • ... a “witch's teat.” A witch's teat was thought to serve the same function as the nipple of a nursing mother, but instead of providing milk to babies, it supplied blood to the witch's evil helpers, or familiars. A committee of[…]2008, Phillip Margulies, Maxine Rosaler, The Devil on Trial: Witches, Anarchists, Atheists, Communists, and Terrorists in America's Courtrooms, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 19

Questions about witch's teats

What is witch's teats the plural of?
Witch's teats is the plural of witch's teat.

Words near witch's teats in the dictionary

  1. witch's milk
  2. witch's moneybags
  3. witch's stirrup
  4. witch's stirrups
  5. witch's teat
  6. witch's teats
  7. witch's water
  8. witch-ball
  9. witch-balls
  10. witch-doctor
  11. witch-doctors

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