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Hi Magia,
Danish: heks, spåkone
Dutch: heks
Finnish: noita, noita-akka
French: sorcière, devineresse
German: Hexe
Icelandic: galdranorn, norn
Low German: Spökenkiekersch
Norwegian: heks
Russian: vyed'ma, koldun'ya, charodyeika
Swedish: häxa, spågumma
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Danish: heks, spåkone
Dutch: heks
Finnish: noita, noita-akka
French: sorcière, devineresse
German: Hexe
Icelandic: galdranorn, norn
Low German: Spökenkiekersch
Norwegian: heks
Russian: vyed'ma, koldun'ya, charodyeika
Swedish: häxa, spågumma
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The special Easter witches are called trulli in Finland (probably of the same origin as "troll"). But the normal Finnish word for witch is "noita". The "akka" in "noita-akka" simply means "old woman".
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