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Pyewacket may refer to:

  • Pyewacket (familiar spirit), a familiar spirit, reported by an alleged witch in 1644
  • Pyewacket, Gillian Holroyd's cat and familiar in the film Bell, Book and Candle
  • Pyewacket (novel), a 1967 children's novel by Rosemary Weir
  • Pyewackett A UK based Pagan/Heathen shop with an internet presence.
  • Pyewacket (band), a rock band based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, active 1972–1975
  • Pyewackett (band), an English folk band active in the first half of the 1980s 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 from 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

  • Pyewacket, a MaxZ86-class sailing yacht commissioned in 2004 by Roy E. Disney; also a Santa Cruz 70 sailed by the Disney family.
  • Pye Wacket, an experimental missile.