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...elections this time that 'Arold had moved too far left of Liberal. "We felt his continued membership would be a blot on the club's escutcheon," sniffed the group's secretary-elect. Their replacement was sufficiently weird: Mrs. Eleanor Bone, High Priestess of the Worshipful Coven of London Witches. Croaked the Liberal witch at her Cumberland cottage, called "Witchwood": "Poor Mr. Wilson. I didn't even cast a spell...
...appears, and Marian is conveyed to a gloomy, candlelit stone pile inhabited by a coven of skulkers who might have been left over from an Orson Welles production of Wuthering Heights. There is the hulking, rock-silent retainer, Scottow, a homosexual. There is the mad hag, Violet Evercreech. And there is the young mistress of the manor, Hannah Crean-Smith. It develops that there are no children for Marian to oversee; she has been hired, rather slyly, to read La Princesse de Cléves to Hannah. And what is wrong with Hannah? She is a prisoner, that...
Prominent witches such as Isobel Gowdie were often members of an organized "coven" of sorcerers-men & women who assembled regularly in barren places under the direction of a "Grand Master," who was usually masked and garbed in animal skins and satanic horns. When the gang had reported on their success or failure as satanic agents since the last meeting and had finished feasting (usually on a sheep stolen from a farmer), the Master took up his reed pipe and led them in a riotous dance, which ended in a sexual orgy lasting "until the first light of dawn broke...
Tickets for the picnic will be $1.50. This, with the amount donated by the Freshmen, should coven all the expenses of the day, including the boat, the band, and lunches for everybody on the island. Besides this, there will be refreshments served on the boat. These tickets may be had after Monday of next week from any member of the Committee. The Committee is composed as follows: S. Adams, W. H. Chatfield, M. G. Day, J. A. Henderson, J. H. Hodges, S. T. Hopkins, G. F. Plimpton, D. T. Thomson, P. K. Randall, G. T. Winslow, and L. M. Wright...