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Concluding Summer of the Netherfield Witch and taking a break

It’s been quite a summer for Jane Harris. She’s survived a death curse and a crush on her stepfather. She’s met a talking dog and a dragon. And now all of her problems are solved. Right? Well, “There’s always a … Continue reading

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Chapter 23 of Summer of the Netherfield Witches

You’d think both being a minister and having martial arts training would make Rev. Honoria Blood the person to take down a witch like Jane Harris’s Aunt Tara. But it’s Honoria that’s slumped against a stone wall with a broken leg. There … Continue reading

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Chapter twenty of Summer of the Netherfield Witch

You can’t go through life not trusting anybody, or you end up a psycho with guns. Or maybe carrying on a relationship with a dragon. They’re sort of the same. Well, kinda. OK, it sucks as a comparison. I guess … Continue reading

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Review: Mitchell, Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages

An acquaintance mentioned to me a talk on “Witchcraft and the Law in Medieval Scandinavia” by Prof. Stephen A. Mitchell of Harvard University that she had heard and enjoyed. So I looked up Prof. Mitchell’s 2011 book, which includes a … Continue reading

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The magic of Owen Davies

Owen Davies is a U.K.-based scholar who has been writing scholarly and popular books on magic and witchcraft for more than a decade now. I’d only learned about him by reading his Grimoires: A History of Magic Books (2009), which I … Continue reading

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