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Daughters of the Moon: Witch Tales from Around the World
Daughters of the Moon Witch Tales from Around the World Author:Shahrukh Husain, Liane Payne Lilith, Morgan le Fay, Biddy Early, Baba Yaga: she comes in many forms through the ages to entice, possess, transform, challenge--and sometimes even to help. — From the Leopard Woman of Liberia to Pele, the volcano goddess of Hawaii, witches are found in almost all folklore traditions dating as far back as 3000 B.S. For Daughters of the Moon, fol... more »klorist Shahrukh Husain has gathered more than fifty tales of witches and witchcraft from more than thirty cultures worldwide. Here are femme fatales who sap men's strength and lure them to their doom, cannibalistic hags who prey on abandoned children, shape-shifters who can change themselves and others into animals and worse, and wise women who render aid and comfort in sometimes inexplicable ways.
Moving beyond black cats and cauldrons, Daughters of the Moon brings together tales of female power and mystery that are awesome, terrifying, and bawdy; tales in which women challenge authority subtly and overtly, with gentleness and violence. Moving far beyond the range of the Brother Grimm to Siberia, Haiti, China, and Iceland, there tales show the witch in her many guises and roles, revealing as much about the culture that created her as they do about the witch herself.« less