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Middle English
Noun
wytchecraft
- Alternative form of wicchecraft
1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum ij”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book II, by
William Caxton], published
31 July 1485,
→OCLC, leaf 40, recto; republished as H
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 this adventure only by might, but by witchcraft