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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Replying to @arthur_affect
My understanding was that witchcraft is practiced by witches and warlocks while wizards did wizardry.
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Replying to @arthur_affect
In the general loose vernacular of superstition and literature in western culture. Generalizing wildly, but outside L. Frank Baum, which is a huge omission, witchcraft, witches and warlocks are usually linked with Satan while wizardry is portrayed as somehow supra-religious.
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Enh maybe None of these words had super formal meanings, but sure "wizard" is less pejorative than "warlock" (which just straight up came from a word meaning a criminal, "oathbreaker")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TCFKA_NCSteve
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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