As for instance, how one who was a Practicer of the five games of skill, having with a dart or javelin unawares against his will struck and killed Epitimus the Pharsalian, his father spent a whole day with Protagoras in a serious dispute, whether the javelin, or the man that threw it, or the masters of the games who appointed these sports, were, according to the strictest and best reason, to be accounted the cause of this mischance.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
We find her a Practicer of the healing art; but at what age, or amid what worldly circumstances, is all unknown.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam
Neither do the Scriptures speak of the woman of Endor as a witch or Practicer of witchcraft, though she had both a familiar spirit, and such clairvoyant powers that at her call Samuel rendered himself visible by her; and he either used her organs of speech, or impressed her to use them, in utterance of rebukes to Saul and prediction of his coming fate.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam