Witches are very rarely featured as antagonists in horror games, but when they do make an appearance, they are almost always ...
usually because an accused witch was believed to have a dog as a "familiar"-a supernatural sidekick who would do her bidding.
This engraving from 1579, showing a witch feeding her familiars, is a typical image ... any noticeable scars or warts or moles could be seen as the Devil's mark and proof that someone had made ...
People believed that the Devil gave witches power through familiars - small animals that supposedly fed off the witch’s blood. In 1542, the first law making witchcraft a crime was passed.