Female Warlocks

[Gores-moon-guard]

As someone from Moon Guard - Warlock still fits most the female avatars.

[Chromix-amanthul]

Has someone done the ‘load of old warlocks’ joke?
Yes?
Right. I’ll get my coat…

[Brutella-terokkar]

Pffft…

I identify as a Death Knight. Sometimes simple is good.

But yeah, you make an honest case there.

[Öroko-hyjal]

Fun side topic, the Plural form of the word Giraffe, is Giraffes.

[Alasa-proudmoore]

My lock is fine with either word.

[Masakko-draenor]

@Kadath-sisters-of-elune

Pretty sure if you go back to like old or middle english a “warlock” is an oath-breaker, so an outlaw akin to a witch. I remember hearing that from a neo-pagan decades ago, so for all I know it could be someone’s wishful thinking.

I think I grew up assuming it was a male witch because there was that movie “Warlock” where the guy was just kind of a dark sorcerer.

In old English male witch = wicca and female witch = wicce. Warlock had a different meaning in old English it meant like traitor or deceiver and didnt have anything to do with magic/witchcraft back then. When middle English was used in 1066 they started calling male wicca to warlocks and female wicce to witch. Whether Warlock or Witch is used depends on if the source being used for inspiration is old english or middle english. Notice how in Lord of the Rings you have the “Witch King of Angmar”? Tolkein used old English not middle English so Witch is appropriate when used in reference to the King ghost or whatever that thing was.

-source the quora thread you saw your stuff but a few posts down so i dont know if its correct or not hehe.

[Chibiusa-andorhal]

Wrong! Warlock means oathbreaker. I’m Wiccan. I would know.

[Estalayia-borean-tundra]

Not according to Charmed (original and not reboot), it’s not

[Kadath-sisters-of-elune]

Thanks for that, it’s been probably 20 years since I read/heard it, cleared things right up.

[Masakko-draenor]

@Chibiusa-andorhal

Wrong! Warlock means oathbreaker. I’m Wiccan. I would know.

Oxford, merriam, wikipedia, and other online sources have several translations as to what warlock meant in old english including your own.

Wikipedia
The most commonly accepted etymology derives warlock from the Old English ƿǣrloga, which meant "breaker of oaths" or “deceiver” and was given special application to the devil around 1000.

Oxford
Old English wǣrloga ‘traitor, scoundrel, monster’, also ‘the Devil’, from wǣr ‘covenant’ + an element related to lēogan ‘belie, deny’.

Merriem
Old English wǣrloga one that breaks faith, the Devil, from wǣr faith, troth + -loga (from lēogan to lie)

[Manwich-blackhand]

I think the problem is we need to know what time WoW takes place in, is it in the past, the far past or could it be the future? I prefer to think in the year 1994, From out of space comes a runaway planet, hurtling between the Earth and the Moon, unleashing cosmic destruction! Human’s civilization is cast in ruin! Two thousand years later, Earth is reborn with A strange new world rises from the old: a world of savagery, super science and sorcery. And that new world is Azeroth, where men are Warlocks and Women are Witches.

[Ghosty-mankrik]

We do. That’s my home town.