When, however, after the lapse of a few hours they saw a gigantic elephant approaching the ramparts and on it a white palanquin, they fell into a frenzy of joy and received the "Good Mzimu," with such shouts and such yells that Stas at first mistook their voices for an outburst of hatred, and the more so as the unheard-of ugliness of the negresses made them look like witches.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Some of these good ancestors of the present descendants of birth burned witches at the stake.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter
Len, I've seen the most beautiful-the most-Len, do you believe in witches?
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice