VIRAGO BOOK OF WITCHES (PB)

Beware the women who are called witches, or those who claim the name for themselves: alluring women, enchantresses, seekers of revenge, wise old women and badly-behaved girls. Here are over fifty stories of crones and nixies, shape shifters and beauties, including the loving fox witch of Japan; Italy's Witch-Bea-Witch; Scotland's Goodwife of Laggan; Biddy Earl; the terrifying Kali; and Baba Yaga, who comes in many forms to haunt, entice, possess, transform and challenge. From every corner of the globe, with tomfoolery and strife, these are women who step out of line.