num_pages: 272
description: For Daughters of the Moon folklorist Shahrukh Husain has gathered more than fifty tales of witches and witchcraft from more than thirty cultures worldwide. Here are femme fatales who sap men's strength and lure them to their doom cannibalistic hags who prey on abandoned children shape-shifters who can change themselves and others into animals and worse and wise women who render aid and comfort in sometimes inexplicable ways.
language: English
title: The Virago Book of Witches
publisher: Virago Press Ltd