The female literary character of “the witch” appears frequently in various genres – myths, fairy tales and also modern stories. When conceptualizing this character type from the perspective of a gender/feminist analysis, one has to include methodological approaches of feminist spirituality (theology) as well as a secular gender analysis of religion and literature. This article applies these approaches to some selected Bengali literary texts. As will become evident, the concept of the witch as a supernatural, magical being (rebelling against the divine power order), and that of a disobedient, mundane woman (rebelling against the secular, human power order) may overlap. Both the orders are androcentric.