witchism

English edit

Etymology edit

witch +‎ -ism

Noun edit

witchism (uncountable)

(rare, proscribed) Witchcraft.
- 2000 December 7, Rob Linham, “OFF: Ask Umra”, in uk.media.radio.archers‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-22:
  AFAIR, there's no mention of witchiness or otherwise in the conditions, unless it's picked you up a conviction for theft or fraud along the way, in which case you've got a problem. I'd have thought that the biggest problem with witching and being a postie would be sleep deprivation from all those full moon ceremonies clashing with the 5am starts [1]
  Rob.
  [1] Vagueness and ignorance of witchism deliberate, he said, trying to avert a new thread...
- 2001 August 27, FuselOil, “What is the culture of the nazis/witches?”, in alt.fan.oj-simpson‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-22:
  > LOL. I know it well enough to teach it in Colleges around the world.
  Maybe that's causing some of our worldly problems. What exactly do you teach? Nazism/witchism! Regards, BB
- 2006 December 26, humbubba, “Hey, Bush, who's our enemy today?”, in alt.politics‎^[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-22:
  Bush worships a 40' stone owl and thinks that he, G Dubya Bush, is God. Basic witch-ism. Why else could he think the military has to uphold an oath that he doesn't?
- 2010, Kathy Reichs, “The Witch in the Wardrobe” (35:06 from the start), in Bones, season 5, episode 20, spoken by Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz):
  What, did you boast to Zephyra that witchism ran in your family?
- 2010 December 19, jos boersema, “Jesuscult down, worse cults starting up already.”, in alt.messianic‎^[4] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-22:
  Do what you like, where you expect happyness from, the concequences will come. All I'm trying to do is make the case that witchism isn't a way for a lot of happynessr. That is the case no more no less. Better choose wisely because the effects once entrenched can be long lasting.