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Crafting the Witch: Gendering Magic in Medieval and Early Modern England (Studies in Medieval History and Culture)

by Heidi Breuer

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“To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that honorable and brave— that was magical.”
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“Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me.”
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“I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.”
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“My library is an archive of longings.”
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“Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.”
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