“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men.”

“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”

“[Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world to give it to you, no matter the price, and the price is and always will be high... People say you don't find witchcraft; witchcraft finds you. But you've found it, even if at the time you didn't know what it was you were finding, and you grabbed it by its scrawny neck and made it work for you.”

“[Dan] Brown states that five million women were killed by the Church as witches. In fact, modern research has shown that the witch hunts began in the sixteenth century in Europe and that between 30,000 and 50,000 men and women were burned to death for the crime of witchcraft. However, 90 per cent of those trials took place before secular tribunals in countries such as Germany and France where by the 1500s the Church had lost most of its influence in judicial matters. Indeed, it was precisely in countries like Spain and Italy where the Catholic Church still had influence that there were almost no witchcraft trials.”

“Could you tell me how to grow--or is it unconveyed--like Melody--or Witchcraft?”

“You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori”