Witches and witch trials remain a source of enduring curiosity. Julie Stone Peters, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English ...

Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering ... Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first ...

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The protagonist, Fern, is only 15 years old when she gets pregnant ... sense that when Fern and her closest friends receive a book on witchcraft from a librarian they're eager to test it out ...

Marion Gibson’s recent book, “Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials ... she was increasingly portrayed as both old and ugly, despite being considered a young and attractive woman ...

The Home’s bookmobile librarian had just given Fern a book of witchcraft, and Fern devoured ... and new attitudes were on their way. Readers old enough to remember this time and this enduringly ...

Fern, newly arrived and newly pregnant, can only wonder at the cruelty and injustice until a mysterious librarian offers her a book on sisterhood and witchcraft. Then everything changes ...

Another question: will you buy pink clothes or blue ones, or, as in the new book “Witchcraft for Wayward Girls” by Grady Hendrix, will you wait to know “witch”?

Fifteen-year-old Neva from Alabama is living her worst ... mobile librarian Miss Parcae who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, promising that it ‘might have some answers.’ ...