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Toil & Trouble: 16 Tales of Women & Witchcraft
Toil Trouble 16 Tales of Women Witchcraft Author:Tess Sharpe, Jessica Spotswood Scorn the witch. Fear the witch. Burn the witch. — History is filled with stories of women accused of witchcraft, of fearsome girls with arcane knowledge. Toil & Trouble features sixteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies and using their magic to create, to curse, to cure?and to kill. — A young witch uses social med... more »ia to connect with her astrology clients?and with a NASA-loving girl as cute as she is skeptical. A priestess of death investigates a ritualized murder. A bruja who cures lovesickness might need the remedy herself when she falls in love with an altar boy. A theater production is turned upside down by a visiting churel. In Reconstruction-era Texas, a water witch uses her magic to survive the soldiers who have invaded her desert oasis. And in the near future, a group of girls accused of witchcraft must find their collective power in order to destroy their captors.
This collection reveals a universal truth: there?s nothing more powerful than a teenage girl who believes in herself.« less