Meanings (ES + gloss)
bruja
A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.
And that olde hag that with a staffe his staggering lymbes dooth stay
Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at first you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate chao…
bruja
An ugly old woman.
The elder women were literally "old hags" - lean and shrivelled, and excessively ugly.
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