Literary Witch

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The witch, the wizard's shadow-sister: Circe turning men to swine on her island, Medea the sorceress who kills for love and vengeance, Morgan le Fay, and the fairy-tale crone with her poisoned apple and her spinning-wheel curse. The woman of power, feared and reviled for centuries — and reclaimed at last by the modern retellings, who give her back her voice. — genre history