Archaic term for someone following a negative spiritual path. Alternatively, those who follow a materialist path rather than a spiritual one. Sometimes called a "black magician."
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Alice Markham-Cantor, author of the new Once & Future Witch Hunt.
My 9x-great-grandmother, Martha Carrier, was hanged in the Salem witch trials. She wasn't a witch. She wasn't an herbalist or a...