Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—H

Hag

A witch or sorceress. (Anglo-Saxon, hægtesse, a witch or hag.)

“How now you secret, black, and midnight hags?” Shakespeare: Macbeth, iv. I.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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