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Witchcraft vs Seer - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between witchcraft and seer

is that witchcraft is the practice of witches; magic, sorcery or the use supernatural powers to influence or predict events while seer is agent noun of see; one who sees something; an eyewitness.

witchcraft

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The practice of witches; magic, sorcery or the use supernatural powers to influence or predict events.
  • * 1387 , John Trevisa (transl.), Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis , chapter XLIV:
  • And in þat ilond is sortilege and wicchecraft i-vsed. For wommen þere selliþ schipmen wynde, as it were i-closed vnder þre knottes of þrede, so þat þe more wynd he wol haue, he wil vnknette þe mo knottes.
    Wiccans believe in a modernised form of witchcraft .

    See also

    * spellcraft * gypsycraft English words suffixed with -craft

    seer

    English

    Etymology 1

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Agent noun of see; one who sees something; an eyewitness.
  • Someone who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner.
  • Etymology 2

    See sihr.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anagrams

    * * * English agent nouns ----