The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Book 1)

by Laurie R. King

“Actually, the book of Leviticus calls not for burning, but for the stoning of a man or a woman who speaks with the spirits—io–b, a necromancer or medium—or who is a yido–ni, from the verb ‘to know,’ a person who achieves knowledge and power other than through the grace of the Lord God of Israel, er, well, a sorcerer.”