Hexer

...From the Middle Ages to the early modern period, this refers to a group of women whose existence was believed in Europe, who had special powers and were often thought to be harmful to society. However, although there is no Japanese word for "Majo," there were male equivalents to witches, and words such as "magician" and "sorcerer" (English: wizard, German: hexer, French: sorcier) were used for this purpose. However, since there were overwhelmingly more women than men, in Western languages, the word "majo" is used to represent both sexes, and we will follow this usage in the following description.

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…中世から近世にかけ，ヨーロッパでその実在が信じられ，特殊な能力をもち，しばしば社会に害をなす，と考えられた一群の女性をいう。ただし，〈魔男〉という日本語はないものの，魔女に対応する男性が存在しなかったわけではなく，これには魔術師，魔法使い(英語wizard，ドイツ語Hexer，フランス語sorcier)などの語が用いられる。しかし数の上からは圧倒的に女性が多いため，西欧語でも〈魔女〉で両性を代表させることが行われ，以下の記述においてもこのような用法に従うことにしたい。…

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