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The most commonly accepted etymology derives warlock from the Old English waerloga, which meant "breaker of oaths" or "deceiver".[2] The term came to apply specially to the devil around 1000 AD.[3]

In early modern Scots, the word came to refer to the male equivalent of a "witch" (which can be male or female, but has historically been used predominantly for females).[4][page needed] The term may have become associated in Scotland with male witches owing to the idea that they had made pacts with Auld Hornie (the devil) and thus had betrayed the Christian faith and broken their baptismal vows or oaths.[5] From this use, the word passed into Romantic literature and ultimately into 20th-century popular culture.