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“Wicked” also benefited from mostly positive reviews hyping the performances of its leading sorceresses.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2024

Ralph Lee, a creator of giant crustaceans, lizards, skeletons and sorceresses, as well as one enduring New York tradition, the Village Halloween Parade, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan.

From New York Times • May 16, 2023

Yennefer, meanwhile, comes to know power of a different kind via the world of magic, chaos, and its political split between male wizards and female sorceresses.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2019

This sequence, which features backup sorceresses in black capes like swirling bat wings, is impressively mysterious and dynamic, thanks to choreographer Rachel Leigh Dolan and costume designer Debra Kim Sivigny.

From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2017

They are a collection of sorceresses, whom I feared more than the men of the same class, though the latter assuredly did not inspire me with much confidence.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport