They’re females right enough, and they can make the impossible happen. I’d say that classifies them as witches. Storm Over Warlock (1960)
You can’t play the role of thug all over the galaxy and not store up in the subconscious a fine line of private fears and remembered enemies. Storm Over Warlock (1960)
Their tribal system is strictly matriarchal, which follows a pattern even Terra once knew: the fertile earth mother and her priestesses, who became the witches when the gods overruled the goddesses. Storm Over Warlock (1960)