Witch Perkins: A Story of the Kentucky Hills

by Evelyn Scott

Ella Wilson, befriends a lower-class, white Maimie Perkins. Both sets of parents disapprove of the friendship, but especially Maimie's stepmother. Ella and Maimie devise ways to spend time together, but invariably they are caught and
separated. During this separation, Ella becomes sick and feverish. She fears that Witch Perkins, Maime's stepmother, transforms Maimie into a White Kitten. Ella becomes determined to save her friend from being used in Witch Perkins' brew.
Ella begins a quest to find Maimie (i.e., the White Kitten), and it includes uniquely American and Appalachian challenges: moonshiners, poverty, haunted tobacco plantation houses. Witch Perkins is a reality defying tale of fantasy, friendship, and evil.

338 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1929

About the author

Evelyn Scott was an American novelist, playwright and poet. A modernist and experimental writer, Scott "was a significant literary figure in the 1920s and 1930s, but she eventually sank into critical oblivion.