[f. WITCH sb.2 + MONGER1.] One who has dealings with witches, or who believes in witchcraft.
1584. R. Scot (title), The discouerie of witchcraft, Wherein the lewde dealing of witches and witchmongers is notablie detected.
1677. J. Webster, Displ. Witchcraft, i. 17. To attribute these stupendious effects (as the Vulgar and Witchmongers use to do) unto the Devil.
1868. Lowell, Among my Bks., Witchcraft (1870), 110. The witchmongers were put to strange shifts by way of accounting for it.
1903. Sat. Rev., 24 Jan., 110/2. Mr. Podmore … traces its [Spiritualism’s] pedigree through Rosicrucians, witchmongers, convulsionaries, speakers with tongues, teachings of Paracelsus, Mesmer and Swedenborg.
