Origins Quiz — Saturday, October 31, 2026

What tonight's-the-night word is an Old English compound whose second half meant power or skill before it meant a trade? The first half is the feminine of a word for a sorcerer, and the laws of King Alfred, around 890, already treated the practice as women's work. It was a crime in England from 1542 to 1736.

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