Christina held out a copy of Bell, Book, and Candle: Witchcraft in the New World. Minerva opened the book, her fingers careful upon the leather cover. On the title page someone had drawn a symbol she recognized: the witch mark with the overlapping circles, and underneath it the words “Look beneath the floorboards.” She flipped to the back of the book and found an ancient borrowing card with the dates on which the book had been checked out. Few people had asked for Bell, Book, and Candle. It had lain forgotten in the stacks for many years. Until, there it was, 1997, it had been checked out. By
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