ed. Shahrukh Husain, "The Virago Book of Witches"

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This is an anthology of folk tales from around the world that concern witches. They're mostly not more than a couple of pages long, and I've been reading a few every day for the past couple of weeks. They're arranged loosely by theme, and it's interesting to see how the various archetypes show up across all sorts of cultures. Nice, too, to find good witches as well as bad witches, and clever women generally. I enjoyed this - one can always rely on Virago for charismatic women.

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