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Feeling the Halloween spirit, SheWired salutes the 10 sexiest and strongest witches of pop culture who cast unforgettable spells on lesbian fans. From as far back as the classic Wicked Witch of the West in Oz to today’s True Blood and Dante’s Cove Wiccan women, there’s always been something sexy and often lesbian about these super-powered females.

The finale of the fourth season of True Blood on Sunday provided plenty of surprises of fans of the vampire series. Four notable characters met an untimely demise – for now. Sookie's (Anna Paquin) BFF Tara (Rutina Wesley), werewolf Debbie Pelt (Brit Morgan), vampire bigwig Nan Flanagan (Jessica Tuck) and aspiring Wiccan Jesus (Kevin Alejandro) were all killed or left for dead.

True Blood's lesbian fans got a little something extra in the fourth season premiere with the arrival of Marnie the Wiccan, played by out actress Fiona Shaw, and with Sookie’s BFF Tara reappearing a changed woman as a cage fighter in love with her female opponent. Besides the general lesbian-ness of it all the sex scene between Tara (Rutina Wesley) and her girlfriend Naomi (Vedette Lim) rivaled the heat of any of Sookie’s best sex scenes with Bill and / or Eric.

True Blood casting directors have been busy with the upcoming fourth season, and this year they are casting some strong new female roles. The lovely actress who played Shane’s lesbian lothario nemesis Papi on The L Word, Janina Gavankar, is joining the True Blood cast, as is Alexandra Breckenridge of Dirt and Life Unexpected. Vedette Lim is also joining the cast, and Jessica Tuck, who plays Nan Flanagan, is being upgraded to a series regular. It will be interesting to see how all of these various characters play out with Sookie, Bill, Eric, Tara, Pam and the gang...