• "The Witch's Familiar" is the second episode of the ninth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was first broadcast on...
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    magical means. The dog, interestingly enough, was tried, convicted, and hanged". The witch's mark added a sexual component to the familiar spirit and is...
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    rites. The witch's teat was a raised bump somewhere on a witch's body. It is often depicted as having a wart-like appearance. The term "witches' mark"...
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  • episodes "Asylum of the Daleks" (2012), "The Magician's Apprentice" (2015) and "The Witch's Familiar" (2015) feature appearances by many of the Dalek variants...
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  • two-part story; the second part, "The Witch's Familiar", aired on 26 September. In the episode, the alien time traveller the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) disappears...
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    believed that the witch's familiar, an animal such as a cat or dog, would drink the witch's blood from the mark, as a baby drinks milk from the nipple. Hopkins...
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  • Apprentice" / "The Witch's Familiar", the opening episodes of the series. In January 2015, it was announced that actor Paul Kaye had a guest role in the first...
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    takes his name from the witch's familiar in the opening scene of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Kay Harker has various adventures—sailing on the high seas, swimming...
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  • was one of the supposed familiar spirits of an alleged witch accused by the claimed Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins in March 1644 in the town of Manningtree...
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  • Clara says of the Doctor in "The Witch's Familiar": "he always assumes he's going to win. He always knows there's a way to survive". The Doctor confesses...
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  • in "The Magician's Apprentice"/"The Witch's Familiar" (2015), revealed to have faked her demise using a teleporter powered by the energy of the Cyberman...
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  • agree to continue adventuring. In the series 9 premiere "The Magician's Apprentice"/"The Witch's Familiar" (2015), the Doctor, along with Clara and Missy...
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  • invisible bar, the little girl angrily throws a bucket of water onto the Wicked Witch. This causes the old witch to melt away. The Wicked Witch's dryness was...
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  • improvement from the episode broadcast a week beforehand, The Witch's Familiar. However, the final consolidated ratings were 5.63 million, the second-lowest...
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    Michelle Gomez (category Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
    reprised the role in the opening two-part story of the ninth series "The Magician's Apprentice" / "The Witch's Familiar" and again in the show's tenth series...
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  • achievement, but lacking the morale to withstand a determined assault". In "The Witch's Familiar" (2015), Davros mentions a prophecy on the Doctor's world that...
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  • the brief return of the Daleks, their last major appearance being that of the previous series' premiere, "The Magician's Apprentice" / "The Witch's Familiar"...
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  • Who: The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar". Radio Times. Retrieved 19 May 2024. Mulkern, Patrick (21 October 2013). "Doctor Who: The Curse...
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  • Davros (redirect from Creator of the Daleks)
    in the two-part Series 9 opening "The Magician's Apprentice" and "The Witch's Familiar" (2015), having escaped the Crucible's destruction and ending up...
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  • Look up familiar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A familiar is a supernatural entity believed to assist witches and cunning folk in their practice...
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  • Witch's milk or neonatal milk is milk secreted from the breasts of some newborn human infants of either sex. Production of neonatal milk by infants usually...
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  • testing is necessary. In folklore, witch's milk was believed to be a source of nourishment for witches' familiar spirits. Lactation failure (disambiguation)...
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  • remained for the first two serials of season 4. The Second Doctor featured for the remainder of the season from the third serial, The Power of the Daleks....
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    and one of the first Renaissance images to depict both witches that fly and a Witches' Sabbath. Surrounded by human bones and animal familiars, a group...
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  • prophecy related by Davros in "The Magician's Apprentice" / "The Witch's Familiar". In the ninth series finale "Hell Bent", the Doctor attempts to help Clara...
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    Lightning bird (category Familiars)
    creature associated with witchcraft, often the servant or familiar of a witch or witch doctor, which attacks the witch's enemies. It is said to have an insatiable...
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  • Mary and the Witch's Flower (Japanese: メアリと魔女の花, Hepburn: Meari to Majo no Hana) is a 2017 Japanese animated fantasy film co-written and directed by Hiromasa...
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  • Julian Bleach (category Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art)
    its conclusion, "The Witch's Familiar". In 2010, it was announced that he would star as the eponymous character in The Nightmare Man, the opening story of...
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  • Hell Bent (Doctor Who) (category Television episodes about the end of the universe)
    Apprentice" / "The Witch's Familiar", as well as the Veil in "Heaven Sent". The episode was watched by 4.47 million viewers overnight in the UK, a 20.0%...
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  • including The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, Alexander and Syriana, as well as the television series Minder, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Sea of Souls, the revived...
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