According to my sources, medieval witches could be identified most easily by asking one simple question: Does she have a cat? If no, she’s not a witch. If yes, look closely for facial warts, because you might have a witch on your hands. Cats were considered to represent demons, or even to be demons themselves. And cats could act as familiars to witches, their powerful spiritual helpers.
We know now that cats are more than spooky sidekicks: they’re invaluable pets who add personality, love, and friendship to our lives.
As Halloween creeps up on us, there’s no better time to bring your own feline familiar into your home. You never know what ghouls she might alert you to on All Hallow’s Eve!
Cat Names Inspired by Witchy Words
To celebrate the magic and mystery of your best kitty friend, why not choose a name that evokes witchcraft? With a little help from witchipedia.com, I came up with some unique name ideas that would make a cat welcome in any coven.
- Aeromancer: a form of divination using the element of air
- Amulet: an object used to draw specific energy or luck toward a person
- Blackberry
- Blackjack
- Braucherei: a system of magic that combines Christian prayers with traditional European folk magic and Medieval Catholic charms
- Diablerie: black magic, sorcery
- Eclipse
- Goety: black magic or witchcraft in which the assistance of evil spirits is invoked
- Gramarye: book of sorcery
- Jinx
- Lamia: a female demon or vampire
- Mystic
- Onyx
- Voodoo
- Ward: protection or guardian
Witchy Cat Names from TV and Movies
Plug in that VCR and cue up some old creepy witch movies! With names like Pyewacket and Morticia, screenwriters of yore had some delightfully spooky ideas for the names of witches and their cats.
- Agatha: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
- Ambrose Spellman: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
- Archimedes: Wizard Merlin’s owl familiar
- Binx: Hocus Pocus
- Blair: The Blair Witch Project
- Bonnie: The Witches of Eastwick
- Broom-Hilda: Folklore
- Bruxo: Spanish translation of “warlock”
- Circe: Homer’s Odyssey
- Cordelia Fox: American Horror Story: Coven
- Daryl Van Horne: The Witches of Eastwick
- Desdemona: Every Witch Way
- Dr. Bombay: Bewitched
- Edwina: Maria The Virgin Witch
- Elphaba: The Wicked Witch of the West in Wicked
- Endora: Bewitched
- Felix: The Adventures of Felix
- Gayelette: The Wonderful World of Oz
- Glinda: The Wizard of Oz
- Grimalkin: Name of the witches’ cat familiar in MacBeth
- Harpier: MacBeth witches’ owl particular
- Hilda Spellman: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
- Jadis: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- Jane: The Witches of Eastwick
- Kiki: Kiki’s Delivery Service
- Kit: The Siamese cat in Charmed
- Licorice: Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose
- Lilith: Battle Cats
- Madam Mim: The Sword and the Stone
- Maleficent: Sleeping Beauty
- Manon: The Craft
- Morticia: The Addams Family
- Nyx: Image Comics
- Obsidian: Steven Universe
- Panther: Black Panther
- Phoebe, Piper, Prue and Penny Halliwell: Charmed
- Pluto: The Black Cat
- Prospero: The Tempest
- Prudence Blackwood: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
- Pyewacket: Black cat familiar in The Bell, Book, and Candle
- Sabrina: Sabrina The Teenage Witch
- Salem (aka Salem Saberhagen): Sabrina the Teenage Witch
- Samantha: Bewitched
- Singra: The Wicked Witch of Oz
- Smokey: Reappearing cat character in DC Comics
- Snowball: The Simpsons
- Sooty: The Sooty Show
- Sukie: The Witches of Eastwick
- Tabitha: Bewitched
- Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose
- Thackery: Hocus Pocus
- Tilly Ipswitch: Tilly Witch
- Ursula: The Little Mermaid
- Vroni: The Little Witch
- Wendy: Casper’s good witch
- Yvaine: Stardust
- Zelda Spellman: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
- Zoe Benson: American Horror Story: Coven
Witchy Cat Names from World Languages
Mysterious and powerful, witches have a place in cultures throughout the world. From the cute Baba (Polish) to the elegant Sorcière (French), these words for “witch” might inspire just the right name for your feline.
- Ahli Sihir: Malay
- Aje: Yoruba
- Akuba: Japanese
- Amoosu: Igbo
- Baba: Polish
- Barangan: Cebuano
- Boszorkány: Hungarian
- Bruha: Filipino
- Bruixa: Catalan
- Bruja: Spanish
- Bruxa: Galician & Portuguese
- Cadı: Turkish
- Cailleach: Irish
- Čarodejnice: Slovak
- Čarodějnice: Czech
- Čarovnica: Slovenian
- Czarownica: Polish
- Dab: Hmong
- Häxa: Swedish
- Heks: Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Afrikaans
- Hexe: German
- Ifritə: Azerbaijani
- Incantrix: Latin
- Kijo: Japanese
- Mágissa: Greek
- Magjistare: Albanian
- Majo: Japanese
- Makutu: Maori
- Manyeo: Korean
- Mayya: Hausa
- Mchawi: Swahili
- Mfiti: Chichewa
- Moloi: Sesotho
- Mpamosavy: Malagasy
- Necromantis: Greek
- Nõid: Estonian
- Noita: Finnish
- Norn: Icelandic
- Penyihir: Indonesian & Javanese
- Phù Thuỷ: Vietnamese
- Pythonissam: Latin
- Ragana: Latvian & Lithuanian
- Saaxirad: Somali
- Saga: Latin
- Sahira: Arabic
- Sorcière: French
- Sorĉistino: Esperanto
- Sorgina: Basque
- Sòsyè: Haitian Creole
- Strega: Italian (Also a reference to the classic children’s book Strega Nona)
- Tovenaar: Latin
- Uyathakatha: Zulu
- Ved’ma: Russian
- Veneficus: Latin
- Veshtica: Serbian
- Vid’ma: Ukrainian
- Vještica: Bosnian
- Vještica: Croatian
- Vrăjitoare: Romanian
- Witch: Maltese, Georgian, Lao
- Wrach: Welsh
- Wūpó: Chinese Traditional
- Yalmog’iz: Uzbek
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