"witch ladder" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "witch ladders",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "witch ladder (plural witch ladders)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1892, Charles Godfrey Leland, Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition, page 353",
          "text": "The next day I showed the woman the engraving of the witch-ladder in the Folk-Lore Journal. She was astonished, and said, \"Why that is la guirlanda delle strege which I described yesterday.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, published 1984, page xi. 144",
          "text": "Next he tied nine knots in a short length of string, and sprinkled some dead flies into the fire. \"Take thou a mandrake [...] Bind the root, with a witch ladder,\" he held up the knotted string.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A charm or talisman in the form of knotted or plaited cord, twine, hair, etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-witch_ladder-en-noun-lYJ5zbDE",
      "links": [
        [
          "charm",
          "charm"
        ],
        [
          "talisman",
          "talisman"
        ],
        [
          "knotted",
          "knotted"
        ],
        [
          "plaited",
          "plaited"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "folk magic",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(folk magic) A charm or talisman in the form of knotted or plaited cord, twine, hair, etc."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "witch's ladder"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "witch ladder"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "witch ladders",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "witch ladder (plural witch ladders)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1892, Charles Godfrey Leland, Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition, page 353",
          "text": "The next day I showed the woman the engraving of the witch-ladder in the Folk-Lore Journal. She was astonished, and said, \"Why that is la guirlanda delle strege which I described yesterday.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, published 1984, page xi. 144",
          "text": "Next he tied nine knots in a short length of string, and sprinkled some dead flies into the fire. \"Take thou a mandrake [...] Bind the root, with a witch ladder,\" he held up the knotted string.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A charm or talisman in the form of knotted or plaited cord, twine, hair, etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "charm",
          "charm"
        ],
        [
          "talisman",
          "talisman"
        ],
        [
          "knotted",
          "knotted"
        ],
        [
          "plaited",
          "plaited"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "folk magic",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(folk magic) A charm or talisman in the form of knotted or plaited cord, twine, hair, etc."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "witch's ladder"
    }
  ],
  "word": "witch ladder"
}