Book of Witches - Jacynth Hope-Simpson

Name: Book of Witches
Author: Jacynth Hope-Simpson

KORTE INHOUD

Tales, poems, confessions of supposed witches, and descriptions of witch hunts from all over the world.
Hamish Hamilton 1st edition 1966 “White witches and black, broomsticks and cats, furtive females around a fire – all these familiar figures from the annals of witchcraft are here, and many others too……Humour, horror or magic, there is something for every taste in this bewitching volume” Edited by Jacynth Hope-Simpson, there are stories by Mary Norton, Andrew Lang, Ian Serraillier, Arthur Ransome, William Shakespeare, traditional tales from Lancashire, Italy, Sweden Austria and many more…
Contents:
The Student-Witch, Mary Norton
Suppose you met a witch, Ian Seraillier
Zini and the Witches, Ruth Manning-Sanders
Two Poems, Walter de la Mare
The Golden Fleece, Charles Kingsley
Foretelling the future:
-The Spell-Song, Andrew Lang
-The Weird Sisters (I), Raphael Holinshed
-The Weird Sisters (II), William Shakespeare
Baba Yaga and the Little Girl with the Kind Heart, Arthur Ransome
Witch Flights:
-A Witch's Song, Thomas Middlet...

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