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How to become a witch: Fiction Novel - Girl finds a how-to book about witches at the library
You may be looking for the "Young Wizards" series, by Diane Duane. This series of eleven novels began its publication history in the early 1980s. I, myself, have only read the first two ...
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Series or movie with long-lived witches hiding in the modern world?
This is the Netflix film, The Old Guard (2020).
A covert team of immortal mercenaries is suddenly exposed and must now fight to keep their identity a secret just as an unexpected new member is ...
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Does J.K. Rowling distinguish between a sorcerer and a wizard?
There appears to be no difference between wizard and sorcerer, save that one tends to be used in a more formal and historical context.
They shared a wish, a hope, a dream,
They hatched a daring ...
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What kind of witch is Tiffany Aching?
The witches of Discworld are very similar to the European tradition of Cunning Folk. Cunning Folk were seen as practitioners of "low magic" who largely focused on solving everyday, practical ...
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Does anyone remember a YA fantasy novel with a wizard certificate in the back?
I think this is likely to be The Book of Wizardry: The Apprentice's Guide to the Secrets of the Wizards' Guild, published in 2003.
Tongue-in-cheek and deliciously droll, "Cornelius Rumstuckle&...
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Did any witches/wizards (non-Squibs) ever choose to live as Muggles?
Isobel Ross, wife of Robert McGonagall, lived as a Muggle.
Isobel Ross fell in love with and married a Muggle minister. She became a housewife, and lived with him, having given up the magical world.
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Fantasy novel with bright yellow cover, male witch protagonist
There are two books in this series by Tom Miller: The Philosopher's Flight and The Philosopher's War. Your description is a more-or-less exact match, except that magic-users were called "...
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Book about a witch that make spells by spelling out words
I found it (at least I think I did!) It's the B Magical series by Lexi Connor. Description from the first book, The Missing Magic:
Eleven-year-old Beatrix just wants to be able to cast spells the way ...
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Series or movie with long-lived witches hiding in the modern world?
Looks like a 2020 movie The Old Guard with Charlize Theron as one of the main characters. No witches though, just people that are naturally immortal, fighting through centuries to benefit humanity. ...
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Fantasy book series about a girl who finds her power as a witch/healer
This might be The Black Magician trilogy by Trudi Canavan. The first book is The Magician's Guild, first published in 2001, a little late for the question.
It has a European fantasy setting, is a ...
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Are the witches in Oz completely not human?
Worth noting that the scene of throwing water on the witch doesn't play out just this way in the original book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
In the book, the Witch had held Dorothy captive and enslaved ...
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What is the significance of the bizarre lizard-like charm Ralph Bohner uses in "Agatha All Along"?
I suspect it's just a generic fetish.
A fetish is an object believed to embody spirits or be inhabited by, or attached to, them. A fetish represents the spirits to its owner and creates a bond ...
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A collection of stories of witches
Oh my gosh, I actually found it: The Big Book of Witches.
Discover a world reigned over by 13 of countless WITCHES featured in history, legends and fairy tales. It is an kingdom of evil, of
darkness, ...
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Original version of Hansel and Gretel
According to The Disturbing True Story Behind Hansel and Gretel, the Grimm version is just one of the collections of that tale. The version you refer to seems to be The Little Boy and the Wicked ...
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70s book written by a male witch about polar energy and witch hunts
Omega by Stewart Farrar. Stewart Farrar was a practicing witch. Omega is about scientists discovering the Mendoza effect; deriving energy by giant poles stuck into the earth. However, the project ...
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Looking for film or television program with witch hunt set in present day
I think you might be thinking of Season 2 Episode 2, "Morality Bites" of the Charmed TV series, which aired October 7, 1999.
When Phoebe has a premonition of herself being burned to death, the ...
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Book series about a girl without a heart, who has to get the heart of a prince in order to regain her own
Is this Bring Me Their Hearts (2018) by Sara Wolf...? It's the first book in a trilogy.
Zera is a Heartless – the immortal, unageing soldier of a witch. Bound to the witch Nightsinger ever since she ...
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UK Fantasy Book series: Young boy finds magic coin that lets him see invisible magic people
Is this the Tim and the Hidden People series (1974-1983) by Sheila K. McCullagh...?
According to the Wikipedia page, the magical item that allows the protagonist, Tim, to see the titular hidden people ...
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Was any of the witches’ magic on ‘American Horror Story’ not one of the Seven Wonders?
There are a few occurrences of magic not related to the seven wonders that we see in the show. For example, the first act of magic we see in season 3, Zoe has the Black Widow power, she can kill ...
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Story about a girl creating dolls or crosses and suspected of being a witch?
I found it. The book is Plain Kate by Erin Bow.
Katerina "Kate" Svetlana is an orphan who lived in the small eastern European market town of Samilae. She was called "Plain Kate" ...
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Looking for supernatural romance novel about woman at mental institution with mysterious power, has variation of "witch" in title
Thanks to Joe L. I found the name of the book. It's Witchlight by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
Winter Musgrave's past is largely blank, her memories missing or tissue-thin. She seem to be possessed--...
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Did any witches/wizards (non-Squibs) ever choose to live as Muggles?
There's someone who lived as a Muggle for only a limited time. We know very little about this, but I believe it was done as a marketing gimmick to sell a book about his struggles, similar to ...
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Book about a child who goes on an adventure with a witch
After a long search, I think I found it: Lizzie Dripping by Helen Cresswell.
No-one in the village believes that Lizzie's seen a witch! But Lizzie doesn't care because she knows that in all Little ...
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Young Adult book about a Teen Witch Girl
Possibly Frogs & French Kisses by Sarah Mlynowski. This is book two in the Magic in Manhattan series and the first book is Bras and Broomsticks, which may be where you are connecting frogs and ...
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Teen witch movie from 80s or 90s
Is this Teen Sorcery, from 1999?
Details which fit:
New girl in school
Magic necklace/amulet
Antagonist (played by Lexa Doig) is a brunette in the film (and could be probably be mistaken for Rachel ...
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In The Phantom Tollbooth, where does Norton Juster get this "fact" about witches from?
I don't know if this is what Juster intended, but the connection I made as a child was to "Hansel and Gretel." The witch with the gingerbread house has extremely sensitive hearing, so that she can ...
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TV Series about witches who are supposedly from Asgard
This sound like "Witches of East End".
Joanna Beauchamp has lived off the coast of Long Island for many centuries. She and her daughters Freya and Ingrid are immortal witches
The article does not ...
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Book about a girl learning to be a witch
It’s Flying Lessons (2011) by Maeve Friel, the first book in the Witch-in-Training series.
From Goodreads:
The first in a new series of magical books for younger readers, by Irish author, Maeve Friel....
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Book about a girl with magic and a boy a with curse
Just so that we have an answer, Kedar identified it above as Spellcaster by Claudia Gray. If they come back and write an answer, I will gladly remove mine.
When Nadia’s family moves to Captive’s ...
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Book about a girl learning to be a witch
How about Ruth Chew's Witch's Broom?
Amy's mother found the little broom in their back yard, near the peach tree. It didn't sweep very well. But Amy and her friend Jean found it could do other ...
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