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Examples
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As he speaks, I'm admiring a particular "bruja" with a price tag of 34 euros, when a black cat appears on the scene.
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"Toma leche" is Spanish for "drink milk" and apparently, if you do just that, and you are a butt-ugly, nasty-ass "bruja" or witch, you will turn …
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"Toma leche" is Spanish for "drink milk" and apparently, if you do just that, and you are a butt-ugly, nasty-ass "bruja" or witch, you will turn …
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'bruja' to free her from the evil spirit but nothing seemed to work.
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'bruja' to free her from the evil spirit but nothing seemed to work.
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My moms always told me never let a bruja draw a shape on you hand.
El Wu-Tang Clan encuentra la bruja de Brooklyn Marc Horne 2011
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Roberto says she's a bruja, a witch, but I don't buy that crap.
Walk away. Walk away now... James Lloyd Davis 2011
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Roberto says she's a bruja, a witch, but I don't buy that crap.
Walk away, walk away... Jean Saeguois 2011
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As the husband stands in the doorway, apparently crying, we see he's laughing instead in glee, while his manservant announces to the jubilant staff, "La bruja esta muerte."
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Senor, my clientele is a deaf man and a bruja… a witch.
El Wu-Tang Clan encuentra la bruja de Brooklyn Marc Horne 2011
treeseed commented on the word bruja
Female witch (Spanish)
Both men and women can be witches, brujos and brujas respectively. Brujos is the plural term that can mean either a group of male witches or both male and female witches. The female witch is considered the most powerful, and traditional brujos believe that the female passes down the sacred bloodline or spiritual bloodline (matriarchal lineage). This means that the line is inherited from a female but ends with a male.
The word bruja is believed to derive from bruxa, which is from the Celto-Iberian dialect in Spain evolving to what is known today as Gallego. It shares its roots with Portuguese. The present day Portuguese use the term bruxa. The original meaning is roughly, evil or unwholesome night-bird, but has evolved both in Portuguese and in Spanish to mean simply 'witch'.
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February 7, 2008
missanthropist commented on the word bruja
Zincali The holy brotherhood this is a cant term, from Spanish 'witch, does not properly belong to the Gitano language.
July 22, 2008