DICTIONARY ENTRY007 / PUBLIC
SUPERNATURAL HUMANOID FIGURE
Witch
Primary indexed name: witch.
PUBLIC-TEXT OCCURRENCES872.04% OF PUBLIC CORPUS
LEADING REGIONVictoria22 coded records
DOCUMENTED SPAN1861–1925accepted dated records
MAPPED EVIDENCE78.0% geographically mapped
Witch appears mainly through literary retellings and later adaptations, so the archive records how the figure was repeated and reshaped rather than a direct encounter sequence. The accepted archive contains 87 records from 1861–1925. The largest coded regional group is Victoria (22), and the largest source group is Internet Archive (56). These distributions describe archive coverage, not real-world incidence.
OCCURRENCE TIMELINE
records by decade1860sPEAK 271920s
REGIONAL FIELD
57 region-coded records65.5%of this figure's records include a coded region
- 01Victoria2238.6%
- 02Queensland1017.5%
- 03New South Wales814.0%
- 04South Australia712.3%
- 05Tasmania58.8%
- 06Western Australia58.8%
SOURCE CONCENTRATION
3 organisations64.4%held by the leading source
- 01Internet Archive56
- 02Project Gutenberg22
- 03Project Gutenberg Australia9
SELECTED PUBLIC RECORDS
6 OF 87- 01witch in Tales of the Dandenongs Third Series1925 / Victoria
- 02witch in Tales of the Dandenongs Third Series1925 / Victoria
- 03witch in Tales of the Dandenongs Third Series1925 / Victoria
- 04witch in Tales of the Dandenongs Third Series1925 / Victoria
- 05witch in Fairy Tales from Australia1925
- 06witch in Fairy Tales from Australia1925