Names witches were called


Benandati
Benandanti, a term roughly translated into "good walkers," were participants in the lingering remnants of an ancient agrarian cult in northern Italy, which came to the attention of inquisitors in the late 16th century because of the cult's nocturnal battles with witches and warlocks over the fertility of the crops and livestock.

In the Friuli region of Italy, Slavic, Germanic, and Italian traditions combined to form the benandanti cult. Women and men born with a caul ("inner fetal membrane still covering the body, especially the head") were believed to have mysterious healing powers and the ability to see witches. Cauls were sometimes saved by these benandanti and worn about their necks as amulets.


Eye-biters
During the realm of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603), an epidemic illness spread among cattle in Ireland which rendered them blind. Witches automatically were accused of causing the blindness by malevolent spells. Many of the eye-biters, as the witches were called, were arrested, tried and executed. Eye-biting was considered an involuntary form of evil eye.


Gazarii
In the region of Savoy, gazarii was a term used to describe witches. "In the mid-fifteenth century,... an anonymousauthor in or near Savoy wrote a treatise on The Errors of Gazarii. The author was probably an inquisitor, and in any case he had access to inquisitorial records."


Incantatrix
Incantatrix is a term for a female enchanter.


Lamia
Although lamia were generally believed to have been demons, associated with succubus and with Lilith, they were also synonymous to some with witches. Lamia witches looked like women, but had horse's hoofs.


Maga
Maga was a generic term used to describe witches who tended to act for their own pleasure.


Malefica
A Malefica was a witch taught by a demon. The object of her actions is to inflict injury.


Saga
A saga was a fortune-telling witch.


Sea Witches
Sea witches are witches who lurk along the coast, eager to curse ships. Some sea witches are the ghosts of dead witches.

According to legend, Sir Francis Drake sold his soul to the Devil in order to become a skilled seaman and admiral. The Devil sent Drake phantom sea witches, who helped him raise a storm at sea and defeat the Spanish Armada in 1588. The witches are still said to haunt the land near where the battle took place: Devil's Point, which overlooks Devonport.


Sortilega
A sortilega was a witch who also was a diviner.


Striga
Also known as a stria or strix, the plural form is striges. Etymologically, the term is associated with "screech-owl." A striga is

    a blood-drinking night spirit of classical antiquity, which became known as a witch in folklore. The striges were said to be terrible women who could turn themselves into dreadful birds of prey, with huge talons, misshapen heads and breasts full of poisonous milk. They were asociated with screech owls.


After the fall of the Roman Empire, striges endured in folklore, and the term became low Latin for "witch." As Christianity spread, the striges, along with other pagan spirits, became associated with demonolatry.

By the Middle Ages, the striges were entrenched in Christianity as servants of Satan and his demons. They were defined as women witches who practiced sorcery and flew through the air. The striges' association with screech owls gave rise to the term owl-blasted, which referred to the effects of a wasting-away spell cast upon a man. This expression remained in popular use through the 16th century.

Striges were also believed to have sucked the blood of children.


Tempestarii
In medieval lore, the Tempestarii were witches who specialized in storm raising for the mythical dwellers of a land called Magonia. When huge storm clouds rolled over the land, they were said to be the ships of the Magonians. The Tempestarii aided the Magonians by whipping up the wind and creating lightning and thunder. By maliciously dumping their cargoes overboard, the Magonians sent hail to pelt the crops below. Then they would land their ships and, with the further help of the Tempestarii, steal the beaten-down crops. Often they would streak back into the sky without paying the Tempestarii and the witches would give chase, which the peasants below saw as the wispy clouds in the sky that follow a storm.


Venefica
A venefica is a witch who uses philtres and poisons.


Warlock
Etymologically, a warlock is a "liar on oath," and hence a "traitor" or "deceiver." Indeed, the word orginally meant "traitor" in English. It soon broadened out into a general term of abuse, and it was also used as an epithet for the "devil," but the modern sense "evil sorcerer" did not emerge until the 14th century. It started life as a compound noun formed from woer "faith, pledge" (a relative of English very and German wahr "true") and -loga "liar" (a derivative of leogan, the ancestor of modern English lie).