It's weird, and it's especially weird bec Hogwarts is supposed to be this ancient institution and our current sense that "wizard" is a masculine word and "witch" a feminine one is fairly historically recenthttps://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1366792852810977286?s=19 …
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But you still do see "wizard" used negatively Remember how in Blackadder the Inquisitor is torturing him into "renouncing the Devil and all his little wizards"
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Ah, Blackadder. I always marveled at how much better their education system, at least in teaching history, had to be to pull off a series whose brilliance is that it is simultaneously so highbrow and so lowbrow.
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I'm fairly certain that warlock meaning male witch was coined or at least popularized by Bewitched.
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I mean it was a thing since the actual witch trials but yeah Bewitched was a big pop culture watershed
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