Are witches real?

Gothic Shadow is correct. In times of the witch trials, all males were accused as "wizards" and females accused as "witches". Warlock was used later for males.

But most in those days didn't call themselves anything. Even today most don't. Obviously here we need to use a word to describe ourselves, but that is not true in everyday life. Honestly, we are just living life, a life where magic is a normal part of it, like breathing and tying your shoes. What others call us is their own prerogative.

As someone who grew up not seeing magick as anything abnormal, and just apart of life, I can personally say that it isn't like you think. The words "magic" never came up. It was just the way it was. It was spoken of as common knowledge and done as normally as cleaning the house. When I am talking to someone in person, I don't call myself anything. THEY choose to call me a witch, healer, shaman etc. I don't find a need to correct them unless they call me wiccan, because that's a religion I am not of, not a title they chose to describe me with. I'm not someone to care what others name me, unless its entirely untrue or insultive.

Personally, I've seen most males call themselves magician, sorcerer, shaman, or "enter culturally correct name" or nothing at all.

The rumor that witches are ugly or unusually youthful women riding broomsticks and making pacts with devils was just an image created by Christians to cause fear and make us seem evil.

Actually, WhiteRaven, during the Witch Trials men, women, AND even children were accused of being Witches and burned as Witches.

The Old English words for "witch" were "wicca" for a male witch and "wicce" for a female witch. So same word, just a gender specific ending.

And in modern times both men and women are considered to be Witches and to practice witchcraft. A wizard is something very different, and mostly the creation of Hollywood.

But you are correct that the term "warlock" does not refer to a male Witch, rather it is a term meaning "oathbreaker".