WITCH    女巫

FEMALE SHAMAN.
SORCERESSENCHANTRESSNECROMANCERWICCANARCHAIC PYTHONESS
Old Chinese Criteria
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Modern Chinese Criteria
女巫 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • SHAMAN　ADULT HUMAN whose WORK is to COMMUNICATE with DEITIES so as to SERVE OTHER HUMANS.  (anc: 8/0, child: 2)
  • ADULT　HUMAN who is SUFFICIENTLY OLD to ESTABLISH his/her SEPARATE HOME. (anc: 7/0, child: 20)
  • HUMAN　ANIMAL which HAS TWO LEGS AND LACKS FEATHERS. (anc: 6/0, child: 31)
  • Encyclopedia of Religion ( JONES 2005) p.

    WITCHCRAFT

  • Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology ( BARNARD AND SPENCER 2002) p.

  • Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography ( ROBERTS 1998) p. 947

    • Words (3 items)

    妖女  yāo nǚ OC: qrow naʔ MC: ʔiɛu ɳi̯ɤ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPwitch
    女巫  nǚ wū OC: naʔ ma MC: ɳi̯ɤ mi̯o 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPshamaness
    巫嫗  wū yù OC: ma qos MC: mi̯o ʔi̯o 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPshamaness