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They belong to three someone-elses, and they sound like the soft sighs of turning pages, the rustles of rose petals one against another, the silent touch of strange stars.
The Last Three?
Agnes is struck by the sudden suspicion that Grace Wiggin doesn’t hate witching at all. “It’s beautiful, isn’t it?”
London Bridge is falling down, falling down, iron bars will bend and break, bend and break, My fair maiden. A spell for rust, requiring saltwater & joined hands
“Strix,
Bella's owl familiar
“What if they didn’t start as witch-burnings? What if they were book-burnings, in the beginning?”
That's an interesting take
“I don’t think they were burning bloodlines out, at all—I think they were burning knowledge. Books, and the women who wrote them. I think… I think they stole the words and ways from us, and left us nothing but our wills.”
Oooh yeah I definitely like this concept of "witchcraft" being described as knowledge from women
perhaps they have to make the miracle themselves.
The problem with saving someone, Bella thinks, is that they so often refuse to remain saved.
Maiden, Mother, and Crone, Guard the bed that I lie on, One to watch, One to pray, One to keep the shadows at bay. A warding spell, requiring salt & thistleseed
Calliope Cole.
Agnes's new identity
a young nurse named Lacey Rawlins who works at St. Charity Hospital,
Sister of Avalon
Why would Jennie be sent someplace different than all the other girls? And why would she be released without trial?
Hush little baby, don’t say a word, Mother will call you by mockingbird. A spell to send a message, requiring a mockingbird pinion & a great need
The trick to being nothing is to want nothing.
Ona.”
New girl working at the cotton mill
Every woman draws a circle around her heart.
Dance, little baby, dance up high, Never mind, baby, Mother is by. Crow and caper, caper and crow, Stay, little star, and don’t let go. A spell to steady a life, requiring hyacinth & a seven-pointed star
“I’m sure he did. But I remind you that he was merely a man. Whereas we”—she looks over her spectacles at Agnes and gives her a very small smile—“are witches.”
“Everlasting. Eve Everlasting.”
She thought survival was a selfish thing, a circle drawn tight around your heart. She thought the more people you let inside that circle the more ways the world had to hurt you, the more ways you could fail them and be failed in turn. But what if it’s the opposite, and there are more people to catch you when you fall? What if there’s an invisible tipping point somewhere along the way when one becomes three becomes infinite, when there are so many of you inside that circle that you become hydra-headed, invincible?
Wade in the water with me, My daughter all dressed in red. Wade in the water, and dress in white instead. A song to stop bleeding after a hard birth, requiring twice-blessed water & the Serpent-Bearer
Hide away, hide away, hide away with me, Hide away, hide away home. A song to avert an unwanted eye, requiring sympathy & the Southern Crown
“Miss Araminta Andromeda Wells.
Cleo's mother
I am terrified and I am terrible. I am fearful and I am something to be feared.
Ohemaa?”
What is now and ever and unto ages and ages, may not always be A spell for undoing, requiring a needle & a cracked egg
“Someone along the line misled you as to your worth, Miss Eastwood.”
her growing suspicion that witchcraft isn’t one thing but many things, all the ways and words women have found to wreak their wills on the world.
Cleo’s aunt Vivica.
Miss Florentine Lee.
August's mother
“Mayor Worthington is her father,” she says softly. “She’s sure.”
Omg Jennie's father is the mayor?!
THE TALE OF THE DEATH OF THE DEATHLESS WITCH
Told by Yulia
Koschei the Deathless. A long time ago, Koschei bound her soul to a needle, and the needle to an egg, and the egg to a silver chest, which she buried deep beneath the snow.
The Queen of Spades She made a blade All on a winter’s day. A spell for sharp edges, requiring a crown of cold iron
Outis.
Nobody
An angry woman is a smart woman, Mags used to say.
