“And after the gathering they might, for instance, sneak into a barn and bewitch a cow.”

55. Witch Hunt – Wendy Corsi Staub

It happens all the time – find a hidden cabinet, travel through time, get accused of witchcraft based on your outfit… I mean, who hasn’t had a summer like that after their parents inherited a centuries old house? I mean, Abbey totally has, she goes from being a little too concerned about the fact that she had to move from New York City to Seacliffe, MA for the summer, to having a crush on her neighbor’s older brother, to fending off a “prowler” who came from 1692. All because of some plants that remain unnamed in the story. It’s no phone booth, but both remain equally plausible because they involve time travel.

Overall, this was a cute story, not particularly horrifying, but in a world where judicial opinions are still being written with references to someone who supported the witch hunts in 1640s England- like his opinion matters anymore for anything relating to women, it was timely to see a girl from 1963 reacting to the overreacting of the 1690s Massachusetts witchcraft-bullshitters with things like, “obviously she’s seeing things.” It’s not easy to be held to the standards of the past as a modern woman, but at least in a book with time travel that makes sense. Thankfully Abbey gets away because Zacariah from 1692 has some damn sense – why didn’t he write any judicial pamphlets someone could quote centuries later?

 

When it comes to pigtchery and having an unending legacy, even the most difficult of ladypigs work together.

 

Even if they have to do it posthumously.

 

Good luck catching these three, even with time travel powers.
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