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  2. Witch Child - Wikipedia

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    Witch Child is a historical novel by English author Celia Rees and published in 2000 by Bloomsbury Publishing. It was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (2001), [1] won two French prizes, the Prix Sorcières (2003). [2] and the Prix Roman Millepages (2002) and in Italy it was runner up for the Cento Literary Prize. [3]

  3. Hansel and Gretel - Wikipedia

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    The story seems to contain the "child/wind" rhyming scheme of the German tale. [ 18 ] In a French fairy tale, La Cabane au Toit de Fromage ("The Hut with the Roof made of Cheese"), the brother is the hero who deceives the witch and locks her up in the oven.

  4. Witch Child of Pilot's Knob - Wikipedia

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    The Witch Child of Pilot's Knob is a Kentucky urban legend that tells of a five-year-old girl named Mary Evelyn Ford and her mother, Mary Louise Ford, being burned at the stake in the 1900s for practicing witchcraft in the town of Marion, Kentucky.

  5. Baba Yaga - Wikipedia

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    Animated segments telling the story of Baba Yaga were used in the 2014 documentary The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga, directed by American filmmaker Jessica Oreck. [22] GennaRose Nethercott's first novel, Thistlefoot, "reimagines Baba Yaga as a Jewish woman living in an Eastern European shtetl in 1919, during a time of civil war and ...

  6. Strega Nona - Wikipedia

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    Strega Nona is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola.If considered as a folktale, the story is Aarne-Thompson type 565, the Magic Mill. It concerns Strega Nona (resembling what would be "Grandma Witch" in Italian, although this would actually be "Nonna Strega", with the two words reversed and the first one spelled with a double n) and her helper, Big Anthony.

  7. The Tale About Baba-Yaga - Wikipedia

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    The story then explains the Velvet Prince's mother is a terrible witch, Yaga-Baba. She despises her daughter-in-law, since she does not utter a word, and decides to get rid of her by setting deadly tasks. One day, she sends for her and tells her to shear their sheep and bring their wool.

  8. Dorothy Good - Wikipedia

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    Dorothy was in custody from March 24, 1692, when she was arrested [5] until she was released on bond for £50 on December 10, 1692. [6] She was never indicted or tried. Her examinations by the magistrates were conducted on March 24, 25, and 26th, according to Rev. Deodat Lawson:

  9. Abigail Williams - Wikipedia

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    Abigail Williams (born c. 1681, date of death unknown) [2] was an 11- or 12-year-old girl who, along with nine-year-old Betty Parris, was among the first of the children to falsely accuse their neighbors of witchcraft in 1692; these accusations eventually led to the Salem witch trials.

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