Would he ever be enough of a witch to do such things himself?

And you certainly never heard of a witch without one.

And there'd been a lot of witches in those days.

It is used today to mean a group of witches.

Sort of a witch, she is, at least to them.

Yes, there'd been a lot of witches in them days.

She hadn't heard of witches who did either, but that didn't mean there weren't any.

But everything is so strange where you come from, this business of witches.

Go in there and ask if they know of a witch.

Adam had a very clear mental picture of a witch.