Word: sinkanda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Witch Sinkanda shows up, Timothy is literally led to Hell. By day she's just one of shiftless Mr. Farr's many daughters, but at night she's up to all sorts of fearful business. She can slip in through a keyhole, hex the unwary and fly through the night air. When Timothy throws his Bible in the fireplace and burns the house down while two of its occupants are asleep, it looks like an accident, but Sinkanda knows better. She and Tim have an affair that is both earthy and unearthly. Together they fly to Hell...
Eventually, Tim sees everything clearly, and manfully goes to face his retribution. But not without a lover's regrets: "Oh, Sinkanda! I don't know whether you are more a fiend or more a woman," said Timothy, embracing her. "If only we could have met under other circumstances! It should have been different, somehow." Sinkanda's answer: "Ah, my friend, how many star-crossed lovers have uttered that...
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