Armed with her mysterious scrying stone and the oaken walking stick that emits a power only she can wield, Ursule casts a spell to hide the coven from those who hunt them. A line of witches, their power passed down from daughter to daughter, is a precious thing and something that must be cultivated through the art of ceremonial charms and gatherings, and must be protected at all costs.
For in that town, they were beginning to burn witches.Īs the leader of the medieval Romani clan, Ursule had a lot to protect. Urging her granddaughters and their husbands along a gritty path with the overlapping waves of an uneasy ocean guiding their way, Ursule tried to spirit her loved ones as far away from the town as she could.
Set across time and space, from Salem to New Orleans, these stories are nothing short of captivating.It was a night shrouded in dense clouds in the year 1821 when the grizzled and gray Ursule Orchiére realized that her family was not safe. And, yes, there are even witch books for babies. Tweens brave enough can read Roald Dahl's famously scary book, aptly titled The Witches. In that case, also consider coming-of-age stories found in YA fare like The Year of the Witching, or adult books like Anne Rice's bestselling Lives of the Mayfair Witchesserie s. Or, perhaps you'd rather read about women learning to harness their powers, like the Owens sisters in Alice Hoffman's Practical Magicor Sunny Nwauze in Akata Witch. If that path happens to spark your interest, try Witchery: Embrace the Witch Within, an introduction to spells, altar-making, and more. Read enough witch books and you may want to become one yourself, which happened to Alex Mar when she was researching her nonfiction work Witches of America. Ranging from fiction to nonfiction, these narratives all have one thing in common: They feature strong, defiant women, and the tight-knit communities that sustain them. While vampires and werewolves certainly make for great (if a bit terrifying) characters, don't overlook books about witches. Once the costumes are ready and the candy corn brownies are made, there's only one thing left to do to celebrate Halloween: Curl up with a spooky book.
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