wytchecraft
Middle English
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- Alternative form of wicchecraft
- 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum ij”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book II, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC, leaf 40, recto; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC, page 79, lines 2–4:
- Thenne the mooſt party of the knyghtes of the round table ſayd that Balen did not this auenture al only by myghte but by wytchecraft
- Then most party of the knights of the round table said that Balen did not [do] this adventure only by might, but by witchcraft