Holly girl, you are all too human, I can assure you. Prickly and awkward and human, because that’s what witches are – human, that is, not necessarily the prickly and annoying bit. That’s just you.

WEST SALEM ~ October 2011A sudden vision, fraught with malevolence and darkness, obscured her sight. The face of a menacing figure turned from the shadows of his grisly handiwork and stared at Sorcha.Her muscles tensed....

Bitter and Frail, young and weak. Smiles are useless, talk is cheap, Give thou venom, fangs like slime, Ugly freak for all of time. An empty gift just from me, Give it now, so mote...

Devil’s WishA bowl of spellsSwirls a mixSmoke and bubblesSeek the fixYoung boy’s eyeAnd fever fewWitches grassSome mandrake root

Those that can heal can harm; those that can cure can kill.

A long time ago I lived in Lisbon,’ she said, in softly slurred Portuguese that made the name of the city Leesh-boa. ‘But before that, meus neto, my tribe was in the mountains where there...

Only a fool would cross a night traveler.

We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn’t stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn’t disappear; it’s transformed into the clean surface.

Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body.

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

be-careful for what you wish for it may be seeking you as well…

Merry’s mind devolved into chaos. Ideas evaded her. Words chased one another into meaningless jumbles. Her breath came in shallow gasps as the ghastly image of William’s lifeless body twisting in the wind, solidified and...

It was so awful! And he kept on looking at me and I knew I must get out of bed or he’d come and touch me. I did, too, but when I got out I...

I threw my hands on my hips, shocked by the irony. A Mather helping a Greensmith? Hell was freezing over somewhere beneath our feet and every kind of farm animal was sprouting wings to fly.

Doubt is unacceptable and should not enter you; it is merely evil trying to divert you and increase the difficulty of your task

To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!’ they cried. ‘On to the Witches’ Sabbath!” Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each side of him, to the wildest measure he had ever...

Out in the stone-pile the toad squatted with its glowing jewel-eyes and, maybe, its memories. I don’t know if you’ll admit a toad could have memories. But I don’t know, either, if you’ll admit there...

She stared at the bullwhip coiled Indiana Jones-style at his narrow waist, then at the black-handled dagger sheathed on his right hip. An obsidian rapier–Fae-forged and unbreakable–almost merged with one of the taped seams that...

People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower on...

You’d have a better chance getting a donkey to shit gold.

Have you noticed her name?”Kit leaned sideways to see the letters painted jauntily on the transom. “The WITCH! How did you dare? Does Hannah know?” “Oh, she’s not named after Hannah. I hadn’t gone ten...

Ivy turned. ‘He bit you on the neck?’ she said, deadpan serious but for her eyes. ‘Oh, then it’s got to be love. She won’t let me bite her neck.

Lips to lips, mouth to mouth,Comes the speaker of the shrouds,Suck in the spirit, speak the words,Let secrets of the dead be heard.

Quincy laughed. “If I were Elizabeth I shouldn’t thank either of you for that comforting diagnosis. Would it do any good to open Aunt Sarai’s grave and drive a stake through her? If you believe...

Off y’go, then. Kill every last one o’ the bastards and call me in the mornin’.

My path will weaveThe way you sayThere is no doubtYou’ll create the way

When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.

You see, a witch has to have a familiar, some little animal like a cat or a toad. He helps her somehow. When the witch dies the familiar is suppose to die too, but sometimes...

I’m beginning to feel as though we’re in some kind of cocoon, I’m just afraid as to what we are going to emerge as. Will I fly away or will he destroy me.

Well,” I ask, leaning over him, “do you wish to stay?””I do.””And why is that, Cole?” I say, tipping toward him so that our noses nearly brush.”Well,” he says with a smile, “the weather’s quite...

Can you be a little more careful where you let body parts fall?”- Faith, Witch Devotions

My entire life, I saw myself as the beautiful damsel or the graceful maiden. I was the princess searching for her knight. But with my newfound abilities, I finally discovered that, after all this time,...

I have to save the world tomorrow, and I don’t even know what I’m going to wear yet.–Rachel Morgan

Silent. So it should be. You have no place in this world, Luthiel. And there is no other.’ Zalos reached out and lifted a few strands of her hair. ‘Bright songs and the magic of...

The first time I called myself a ‘Witch’ was the most magical moment of my life.

Salem has become this… Mecca for Wiccans, but no witches died here. Aside from Tituba, no one practiced anything like witchcraft near here in colonial times. It was a bunch of bored Puritans who thought...

Contentedly sat the old woman. Soon now, the sea would hold no terrors, and the blinds wouldn’t have to be down, nor the windows shut; she would even be able to walk along the shore...

Hey. My life’s not all about weird little creatures pretending to be teddy bears.” From Tribe of the Teddy Bear.

I scream trouble,” Mace growled and exited the car.

MagicSandra’s seen a leprechaun,Eddie touched a troll,Laurie danced with witches once,Charlie found some goblins gold.Donald heard a mermaid sing,Susy spied an elf,But all the magic I have knownI’ve had to make myself.

We designate the spirit of the well as ‘she’ because in most of her personifications she takes a female form, though not invariably. She appears in many guises – ghost, witch, saint, mermaid, fairy, and...

Mmmm… I missed you.” She said, and grabbed me by the waist band, and pulled me on top of her.

To go home, you usually will use that door over there.” I looked where Trom gestured and saw empty space.”What door?” I asked.”Oh, sorry. Until you go through your closet door for the first time...

That’s quite the specific search…’Sadistic Old-Bag-Murdering Witches’—I can’t even begin to imagine what that involves.

Sex is still on the table. We just keep the yucky love stuff out of it.”…”Now where is this table you speak of to have sex on? You should take me there. Now.

The spirits made her sick, and I don’t just mean the Scotch.

In my dream I drank fully of water, but when I woke, I was thirsty.” Ned Low

The mist enveloped her form. She was lifted into it, then instantly dropped. Swiftly, the mist retreated to the window.It was gone. The old woman lay flat on her back, eyes open and staring; her...

You belong with us, the lost of the lost, the tribe without a home, a tribe of orphans living our abandoned lives amid toys and trinkets, stuffed monkeys and bears. You’re one of us now—the...

When my escort is a demon, yes.