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Pyewacket may refer to:

  • Pyewacket (familiar spirit), a familiar spirit, reported by an alleged witch in 1644
  • Pyewacket (novel), a 1967 children's novel by Rosemary Weir
  • Pyewacket (band), a 1970s-era rock band based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Pyewackett (band), an English folk band active in the first half of the 1980's that recorded 4 LPs specializing in updated renderings of medieval dances and songs, much of it from John Playford's English Dancing Master books of 1651. Information is available form one of the members Ian Blake or from a fan site which can be found by searching for 'Pop Music from the Last Five Centuries'. The 4 LPs were as follows. Only the re-released CD is routinely available:

-- This Crazy Paradise - (Familiar Records FAM 59) 1986
-- 7 to Midnight - (Familiar Records FAM 57) 1984
-- The Man in the Moon drinks Claret - (Familiar Records FAM 43) 1982, re-released on CD 1995 by Music and Words
-- Pyewackett - (Dingles DIN 312) 1980