Word: witches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...numerous adventure tales, Buchanites prefer: Greenmantle, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Witch Wood, Salute To Adventurers, The Courts Of The Morning...
Once he took his troubles to an old witch woman. She gave him good advice: "You got to weary yo' life along, 'cause dat's de way hit turns out. You work and yo' back gits tired; you lay round hyar in de sun and shade and yo' soul gits twice as weary. Take a job er work, and you wear cawns in yo' hands. Th'ow yo' shoes under some woman's bed, and cawns come on yo' weary soul. Quit yo' work, and you gits...
Since the Witch of Endor, rare are the artists who have raised a proper ghost. Bram Stoker raised one (Dracula]; Algernon Blackwood one (The Wendigo); Walter de la Mare, a few (The Return, On the Edge, TIME, Feb. 23): M. R. James several. Ghost-story addicts will welcome this collection of his four spooky books (Ghost Stories of An Antiquary, Afore Ghost Stories, A Thin Ghost and Others, A Warning to the Curious...
...rooster, and 2) eggs from Murphy's family of five Japanese hens brought Warden Hill $5 apiece from poultry fanciers. But there were other buyers of those eggs, at whose stealthy purpose the White Plains prison keeper occasionally hinted, as though he were the purveyor of a witch's stew. With Murphy dead, the master revealed his secret commerce. The revelation raised a great guffaw among those who had any sound knowledge of medicine. For, according to Warden Hill, those sly buyers broke up the eggs, put the yolk & whites in small capsules, and prescribed the encapsulated eggs...
...picture of an ungainly witch swaddled in an 1890 bathing suit, an arrow pointing to the knee. Legends: Consider your Knee Cap!!! Don't Rasp Your Wife's Throat With Harsh Irritants. "Reach for a Hatchet Instead" . . . Ducky Wucky Cigarettes. "They're Hash Browned," Purified by Hot Air and Advertising Rays...