A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts

A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts

Author: J. W. Ocker

Publisher: The Countryman Press

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 1581575548

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Edgar Award-winning travel writer spends an autumn living in one of America's spookiest tourist destinations: Salem, Massachusetts Salem, Massachusetts, may be the strangest city on the planet. A single event in its 400 years of history—the Salem Witch Trials of 1692—transformed it into the Capital of Creepy in America. But Salem is a seasonal town—and its season happens to be Halloween. Every October, this small city of 40,000 swells to close to half a million as witches, goblins, ghouls, and ghosts (and their admirers) descend on Essex Street. For the fall of 2015, occult enthusiast and Edgar Award–winning writer J.W. Ocker moved his family of four to downtown Salem to experience firsthand a season with the witch, visiting all of its historical sites and macabre attractions. In between, he interviews its leaders and citizens, its entrepreneurs and visitors, its street performers and Wiccans, its psychics and critics, creating a picture of this unique place and the people who revel in, or merely weather, its witchiness.


Season of the Witch

Season of the Witch

Author: David Talbot

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-05-08

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 1439127875

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The critically acclaimed, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller—a gripping story of the strife and tragedy that led to San Francisco’s ultimate rebirth and triumph. Salon founder David Talbot chronicles the cultural history of San Francisco and from the late 1960s to the early 1980s when figures such as Harvey Milk, Janis Joplin, Jim Jones, and Bill Walsh helped usher from backwater city to thriving metropolis.


Season of the Witch

Season of the Witch

Author: Matt Ralphs

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1912497719

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Get whisked away into the history of some of the most controversial women in history: witches. “I love how this book takes a global perspective…It's really cool to learn about the similarities and differences between magical beliefs across the world and throughout history.” —The Tiny Activists "This guide will satisfy younger readers looking for a mix of history and magic." —Publisher’s Weekly Tracing as far back as the Stone Age, witches have fascinated us for centuries. But were they evil sorceresses determined to seek revenge, or suppressed feminists who were misunderstood? From Egyptian priestesses to Norse healers, take a closer look at witches throughout history and across the world, in this holistic non-fiction book that incorporates poetry, art, mythology, hexes, potions, and magic from different cultures and religions around the world.


Season of the Witch

Season of the Witch

Author: Mariah Fredericks

Publisher: Schwartz & Wade

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0449812790

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Like Fredericks's The Girl in the Park, here is a page-turner that perfectly captures the world of New York City private schools, as it explores the notion of power among teenage girls. Publisher's Weekly, in a starred review, raves, "Fredericks again proves her gift for conveying the intensity of adolescence, while exploring the ways girls’ sexuality is used against them and asking why 'we all have to be predators and prey.'" Queen Bee Chloe is going to make Toni suffer for whatever transpired between Toni and Chloe's boyfriend, Oliver, over the summer. From day one of eleventh grade, she has Toni branded as a super slut, and it isn't long before things get so ugly that Toni fears for her safety. What's a scared, powerless, and fed-up teenager to do? Guided by Cassandra—a girl with some serious problems of her own—Toni decides to stop playing the victim and take control. Cassandra has been experimenting with witchcraft, and together they cast a spell on Chloe that may actually cause her death. Could Toni have really made such an awful thing happen?


Season of the Witch

Season of the Witch

Author: Peter Bebergal

Publisher: TarcherPerigee

Published: 2015-10-13

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0399174966

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"From the hoodoo-inspired sounds of Elvis Presley to the Eastern odysseys of George Harrison, from the dark dalliances of Led Zeppelin to the Masonic imagery of today's hip-hop scene, the occult has long breathed life into rock and hip-hop--and, indeed, esoteric and supernatural traditions are a key ingredient behind the emergence and development of rock and roll ... [and in this book] writer and critic Peter Bebergal illuminates this web of influences"--Amazon.com.


Season of the Witch

Season of the Witch

Author: Natasha Mostert

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-04-19

Total Pages: 623

ISBN-13: 1101211679

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Gabriel Blackstone is an unscrupulous hacker and unrepentant "remote viewer" who can't resist his ex-lover's request to look into her stepson's disappearance. His investigation leads him to a rambling Victorian home that bewitches him-as do its beautiful, enigmatic owners, the Monk sisters. The pair are solar witches, obsessed with alchemy and the Art of Memory, a practice invented by the ancient Greeks. With his uneasy suspicion that one of the sisters is a killer, Gabriel sets out to determine which. But the more entangled in the case he becomes, the more deeply he is drawn into the sisters' entrancing world-losing hold of reality even as he falls into mortal danger...


Season of the Witch (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Netflix Tie-in Novel)

Season of the Witch (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Netflix Tie-in Novel)

Author: Sarah Rees Brennan

Publisher: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Published: 2019-07-04

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781407198903

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From the creator of RIVERDALE comes the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, a new NETFLIX series based on the classic Archie comic series. This prequel YA novel tells an all-new, original story. It's the summer before her sixteenth birthday, and Sabrina Spellman knows her world is about to change. She's always studied magic and spells with her aunts, Hilda and Zelda. But she's also lived a normal mortal life - attending Baxter High, hanging out with her friends Susie and Roz, and going to the movies with her boyfriend, Harvey Kinkle. Now time is running out on her every day, normal world, and leaving behind Roz and Susie and Harvey is a lot harder than she thought it would be. Especially because Sabrina isn't sure how Harvey feels about her. Her cousin Ambrose suggests performing a spell to discover Harvey's true feelings. But when a mysterious wood spirit interferes, the spell backfires in a bigway. Sabrina has always been attracted to the power of being a witch. But now she can't help wondering if that power is leading her down the wrong path. Will she choose to forsake the path of lightand follow the path of night? Our exclusive prequel novel will reveal a side of Sabrina not seen on the new NETFLIX show. What choice will Sabrina make and will it be the right one?


The Kitchen Witch

The Kitchen Witch

Author: Annette Blair

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-10-05

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1101204737

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When a single-dad TV executive hires Melody Seabright--a flaky rich girl and rumored witch--as his babysitter, she magically lands her own cooking show...and makes sparks fly.


Seasons of the Witch

Seasons of the Witch

Author: Various

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2003-10

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0689865457

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Follows the Halliwell sisters--Phoebe, Piper, and Paige--as they experience three more Wiccan adventures.