witchcraft

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Witches

opposing viewpoints
1995
Examines several issues related to witches, including what happened in Salem and whether witches really fly, and incorporates the opposing views of experts.

Plain Kate

2010
Plain Kate's odd appearance and expertise as a woodcarver cause some to think her a witch, but friendship with a talking cat and, later, with humans help her to survive and even thrive in a world of magic, charms, and fear.

The heretic's daughter

a novel
2008
Ten-year-old Sarah Chapman, recovering from smallpox in 1752, becomes caught up in another life and death battle when her mother, Martha, is accused of witchcraft by her uncle who wants the plot of land on which the Chapman family is living, and the rest of the community, looking for a scapegoat for their own troubles, joins the campaign to have Martha hanged.

Jinx

2009
Sixteen-year-old Jean "Jinx" Honeychurch, the descendant of a witch, must leave Iowa to live with relatives in Manhattan after the first spell she casts goes awry, but she will have to improve her skills to stop her cousin from practicing black magic that endangers them and the boy they both like.

Wizard's hall

2001
A young apprentice wizard saves the wizard's training hall by trusting and believing in himself.

Here lies the body

1974
Two brothers with summer jobs at a cemetery become involved in the nefarious secrets of the family who owns it.

Taltos

lives of the Mayfair witches
1996
Mr. Ash learns there are other surviving Taltos and goes to New Orleans, where he becomes involved with the Mayfair witches.

The strange case of Doctor Jekyll and Mademoiselle Odile

a Shadow Sisters novel
2013
In this prequel to "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" set in 1870s Paris during the Prussian siege, an orphaned sixteen-year-old girl whose knowledge of witchcraft includes transformation spells meets a young medical doctor from London.

The black cat

1997
Tells the story of a descendent of Edgar Allen Poe who sets out to discover what is behind an outbreak of murder and witchcraft in his town.

The giant book of magic

1997
Overflows with all things New Age, including divination methods, rituals, lore and mystical traditions from around the world.

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