From one of the world's best loved storytellers Paulo Coelho comes a riveting novel tracing the mysterious life & disappearance of Athena dubbed the Witch of Portobello' which was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller in hardback This is the story of Athena or Sherine to give her the name she was baptised with Her life is pieced together through a series of recorded interviews with those people who knew her well or hardly at all
- parents colleagues teachers friends acquaintances her ex-husband The novel unravels Athena's mysterious beginnings via an orphanage in Romania to a childhood in Beirut When war breaks out her adoptive family move with her to London where a dramatic turn of events occurs Athena who has been dubbed 'the Witch of Portobello' for her seeming powers of prophecy disappears dramatically leaving those who knew her to solve the mystery of her life & abrupt departure Like The Alchemist The Witch of Portobello is the kind of story that will transform the way readers think about love passion joy & sacrifice
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Follow one little witch as she tries to cast spells on some innocent woodland creatures Each time she tries a bad spell the witch gets an itch that sends her spells off in all sorts of unexpected directions Discover the solution to the mystery of Little Witch's itch in this wickedly witty rhyming read brought to life by the bestselling illustrator of The Night Pirates ...

A practical guide to magic using familiar ingredients & everyday objects 144 pages Silverwind Selene ...

Jess is shocked when she sees her pictures of the old Town Hall on fire with a woman standing on the roof of the burning building Is this a photographic trick or something more sinister? Jess is led deep into the past into a dangerous world of witchcraft persecution & family tragedy This book is part of the Breakouts series It is perfect for readers who have gained a bit more confidence in reading & who are after a more challenging read but who aren't yet ready for longer more demanding reads ...

In the spring of 1628 young Bess Hawksmith watches her mother's body swing limp from the Hanging Tree She knows that only one man can save her from the same fate
- Gideon Masters the Warlock She knows too that his help comes at a steep price In present-day England Elizabeth has built a quiet life for herself She has spent the centuries in solitude moving from place to place surviving plagues wars & the heartbreak that comes with immortality Her loneliness comes to an abrupt end when she is befriended by a teenage girl called Tegan Against her better judgment Elizabeth opens her heart to Tegan & begins teaching her the ways of the Hedge Witch But Gideon is hunting her still He will stop at nothing determined even after centuries to claim her soul & now Bess is not fighting to save herself alone now she must protect the girl she has grown to love like a daughter
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Our popular Witch s Tools series now has a new look! Discover meditations spells crafts exercises & many other tools for enhancing your magical life with mirrors Explore the symbols & practice of scrying the uses of mirrors in legends & pop culture & learn to use the mirror as a key tool to a successful & enlightened life ...

Can true love's kiss break your heart? The spellbinding sequel to THE WITCH'S KISS by authors & sisters Katharine & Elizabeth Corr It's not easy being a teenage witch Just ask Merry She's drowning in textbooks & rules set by the coven drowning in heartbreak after the loss of Jack But Merry is not the only one whose fairy tale is over Big brother Leo is falling apart & everything Merry does seems to push him further to the brink & everything that happens to Leo makes her ache for revenge So when strangers offering friendship show them a different path they'd be mad not to take it Some rules were made to be broken right? The darkly magical sequel to THE WITCH'S KISS burns wickedly bright ...

Do you believe in magic? Can you imagine a war between wizards a rebellious ant called 4179003 or a time-travelling television? Can you imagine that poor old Mr Swimble could see a mysterious vacuum in the morning & make cheese sandwiches & yellow elephants magically appear by the afternoon? Welcome to the wonderful world of Sir Terry Pratchett & fourteen fantastically funny tales from the master storyteller Bursting from these pages are food fights pirates bouncing rabbits & magical pigeons & a witch riding a vacuum of course One of the most consistently funny writers around' Guardian ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Collection of five horror films & The Witch& (2015) follows a puritan family living on a farm in New England in 1630 When their baby son suddenly goes missing the superstitious parents William (Ralph Ineson) & Katherine (Kate Dickie) begin to wrongly suspect their daughter Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy) is responsible & capable of witchcraft When further sinister things start to happen suspicion & fear begins to tear the family apart & drives them to commit a series of heinous acts In & Crimson Peak& (2015) 19th-century author Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) meets & falls in love with the wealthy & mysterious Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston) However after Edith moves into Crimson Peak the Sharpe family home to live with Thomas & his sister Lady Lucille (Jessica Chastain) she realises that there is much more to the Sharpe family & their house than meets the eye In & Maggie& (2015) when Maggie Vogel (Abigail Breslin) gets stuck outside after curfew she is bitten by a zombie & becomes infected with the Necroambulist virus Her father Wade (Arnold Schwarzenegger) goes searching for her & finds her in a quarantined zone of a hospital Her doctor agrees to release her but warns Wade that before Maggie completely transforms he will have to place her back in quarantine However when Maggie&s condition eventually begins to worsen Wade refuses to return her to hospital leaving the family facing some important decisions In & The Visit& (2015) while their mother is on holiday young siblings Tyler (Ed Oxenbould) & Becca (Olivia De Jonge) are sent to stay with their grandparents After being warned not to leave their bedroom after 930pm & suspecting that something is amiss in the house the kids start to investigate However after finding their grandparents behaving strangely a number of disturbing events occur which leave the pair facing a fight to survive Finally in & Unfriended& (2015) one year after their classmate Laura (Heather Sossaman) committed suicide after an embarrassing video of her was circulated around the school six friends log on to Skype to take part in a group chat But when someone starts using Laura&s old account & appears to know the full details about the video & the identities of those responsible for its distribution the six friends begin to fear for their lives as whoever it is starts to torment them inside their homes ...

The Witchcraft Sourcebook now in its second edition is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century Many of the sources come from the period between 1400 & 1750 when more than 100000 people
- most of them women
- were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe & colonial America During these years the prominent stereotype of the witch as an evil magician & servant of Satan emerged Catholics & Protestants alike feared that the Devil & his human confederates were destroying Christian society Including trial records demonological treatises & sermons literary texts narratives of demonic possession & artistic depiction of witches the documents reveal how contemporaries from various periods have perceived alleged witches & their activities Brian P Levack shows how notions of witchcraft have changed over time & considers the connection between gender & witchcraft & the nature of the witch's perceived power This second edition

Includes:: an extended section on the witch trials in England Scotland & New England fully revised & updated introductions to the sources to include the latest scholarship & a short bibliography at the end of each introduction to guide students in their further reading The Sourcebook provides students of the history of witchcraft with a broad range of sources many of which have been translated into English for the first time with commentary & background by one of the leading scholars in the field



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