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Witcher (tree)
Witcher may refer to: * Witcher (surname) * Witcher Creek, a tributary of the Kanawha River in West Virginia, United States * Witcher Holes Creek, a stream in the U.S. state of South Dakota * Dowser, a diviner who attempts to locate underground objects * Witcher, an English translation of the word ''vedmak'', a male witch in Slavic mythology * Witcher, a fictional occupation in Andrzej Sapkowski's novel series '' The Witcher'' See also *Wicher (other) Wicher may refer to: * Wicher-class destroyer * ORP Wicher ** ORP Wicher (1958) ** ORP Wicher (1928) * PZL.44 Wicher * Maria Wicher * Enos Regnet Wicher, * De Wicher, Kalenberg, Netherlands *Wicher Berkhoff, Dutch name of Vasily Berkov See also ... * The Witcher (other) {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witcher (surname)
The surname Witcher may refer to: * Al Witcher (born 1936), American football player * Bobby Witcher, American herpetologist * Dick Witcher former professional American football player * Gabe Witcher (born 1978), American multi-instrumentalist, producer, and arranger best known as a fiddle player and singer, He is a founding member of the string ensemble Punch Brothers * John Seashoal Witcher (1839–1906), American Union brevet brigadier general * Robert C. Witcher, sixth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island * Ronald K. Witcher, owner of KCYL, a Texas radio station * Vincent A. Witcher, namesake of Witcher's Battalion, American Civil War * Witcher (Hampshire cricketer), English cricketer who played a single game for Hampshire county cricket teams; no bio info available See also *Wicher (other) for some other spelling variants {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witcher Creek
Witcher Creek is a tributary of the Kanawha River, long, in West Virginia in the United States. Via the Kanawha and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset, area data for Witcher Creek watershed, 12-digit Hydrologic Unit Code 050500060401The National Map retrieved 2013-11-18 on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau. Witcher Creek flows for its entire length in eastern Kanawha County Kanawha County ( ) is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 180,745, making it West Virginia's most populous county. The county seat is Charlest .... It rises approximately west-northwest of Mammoth and flows southwestward through the unincorporated community of Witcher. It flows into the Kanawha River approximately southwest of Witcher, between the town of Belle and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witcher Holes Creek
Witcher Holes Creek is a stream A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream ... in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Witcher Holes Creek derives its name from Harry Witcher, an early settler, the creek forming pools of water or "holes" when it runs dry. See also * List of rivers of South Dakota References Rivers of Haakon County, South Dakota Rivers of South Dakota {{SouthDakota-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dowser
Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, Petroleum, oil, claimed radiations (radiesthesia),As translated from one preface of the Kassel experiments, "roughly 10,000 active dowsers in Germany ''alone'' can generate a conservatively-estimated annual revenue of more than 100 million DM (US$50 million)"''GWUP-Psi-Tests 2004: Keine Million Dollar für PSI-Fähigkeiten'' (in German) an. Grave (burial), gravesites, malign "earth vibrations" and many other objects and materials without the use of a Scientific instrument, scientific apparatus. It is also known as divining (especially in water divining), doodlebugging (particularly in the United States, in searching for petroleum or treasure) or (when searching for water) water finding, or water witching (in the United States). A Y-shaped twig or rod, or two L-shaped ones—individually called a dowsing rod, divining rod (Latin: ''virgula divina'' or ''baculus divinator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vedmak
In Slavic mythology, a vidmak ( be, вядзьмак, вядзьмар; bg, вещер; hr, vještac; cz, vědmák; mk, вештер; pl, wiedźmak; russian: ведьмак; sr, вештац; uk, відьмак) is a warlock or male witch, the female equivalent (witch) being ''vedma'', but unlike the latter, the vedmak may also possess positive qualities. For example, they treat people and animals. On the other hand, they are thought to be people connected to the devil, and are capable of bringing harm by sending illnesses, killing cattle, spoiling a harvest, etc.Yefimova's Modern Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian language, 2000. The word was also used as an insult. A vedmak can turn into any animal or any object. ''Vedmak'' stems from Proto-Slavic *vědět ("to know") and Old East Slavic вѣдь ("knowledge; witchcraft", compare the use of the term "cunning" in English folklore). Under the influence of ''The Witcher'' fantasy saga by Andrzej Sapkowski, the term '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Witcher
''The Witcher'' ( pl, Wiedźmin ) is a series of six fantasy novels and 15 short stories written by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. The series revolves around the eponymous "witcher", Geralt of Rivia. In Sapkowski's works, "witchers" are beast hunters who develop supernatural abilities at a young age to battle wild beasts and monsters. ''The Witcher'' began with a titular 1986 short story that Sapkowski entered into a competition held by ''Fantastyka'' magazine, marking his debut as an author. Due to reader demand, Sapkowski wrote 14 more stories before starting a series of novels in 1994. Known as ''The Witcher Saga'', he wrote one book a year until the fifth and final installment in 1999. A standalone prequel novel, ''Season of Storms'', was published in 2013. The books have been described as having a cult following in Poland and Central and Eastern European countries. They have been translated into 37 languages and sold over 15 million copies worldwide as of December 2019. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wicher (other)
Wicher may refer to: * Wicher-class destroyer * ORP Wicher ** ORP Wicher (1958) ** ORP Wicher (1928) * PZL.44 Wicher * Maria Wicher * Enos Regnet Wicher, * De Wicher, Kalenberg, Netherlands *Wicher Berkhoff, Dutch name of Vasily Berkov See also * Witcher (other) *Whicher (other) Whicher may refer to: *Jack Whicher (1814–1881), one of the original members of the Detective Branch at Scotland Yard ** The protagonist of the British TV series ''The Suspicions of Mr Whicher ''The Suspicions of Mr Whicher'' is a British ser ... * Whitcher {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
