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This study examines the theories of the processes in which the image of witches was constructed in the midst of socio-cultural changes. The goal of this study is to analyze the costumes and the characters of the movies based on such theories, and to examine how the typical images of the witches are understood in movie characters and their costumes. The result of the study follows. Traditional characteristics of witches, which appear in its formation process, include typicality, hybridization, deconstruction, destruction, exoticism, sensuality and intelligence. Similarly, the costumes of witches in movies present typicality, hybridization, destruction, sensuality, and exoticism. In the case where the character of a witch goes against the evil nature of typical witches, even when its name and role clearly present itself as one, the costume takes the most typical form of witch costumes, in order to identify it clearly as a witch. Witches exist only in human imagination. Therefore, the costumes for witches can have diverse interpretation. According to the result of the costume analysis, however, typical characteristics of witches appear on the whole.