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The Virago Book of Witches

Shahrukh Husain

First published 1993
Publisher Virago
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages xxi+244
Price £14.99
ISBN 1853815624

59 stories in titled Part One to Part Eight Story headers include small subtitles such as "(Indian)" and "(Afro-Caribbean)" that are not in the Contents list. 1. Alluring Women and Ailing Knights 2. Wise Old Women 3. Witches in Love: Possessive Women and Devoted Wives 4. Transformations 5. Guardians of the Seasons and Elements 6. Witchy Devices: Cauldrons, Broomsticks, and Trysts with the Devil 7. Hungry Hags: Cannibals and Blood-Suckers 8. Trials and Contests (from the 1st US ed. viewed at Archive.org)

Daughters of the Moon: Witch Tales from Around the World --full title, US spine only


1st ed. Data including price from British Library (BL, below). Publication date and image from Amazon UK 2023-05-05 as Hardcover and "Virago (21 Oct. 1993)". For a superior image of the front cover, see the 1994 paperback.

Introduction, pp. xiii-xxi Notes, 223-44 (bibliographical references) --from the 1994 1st US ed. with identical page counts

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Indravati and the Seven Sisters Shahrukh Husain Short Story
9 Finn's Madness (abridged) Lady Gregory Short Fiction
11 The Nixy uncredited Short Story
15 The Maiden on the Loreley August Antz Short Story
17 Coonlagh and the Fairy Maiden Pat Ryan (I) Short Story
20 The Marriage of Sir Gawain Neil Philip Short Fiction
27 I Love You More Than Salt Duncan Williamson Short Story
33 The Tale of the Merchant, the Crone, and the King John Payne Short Story
36 The Four Gifts Émile Souvestre Short Story
44 Habetrot (revised) Katharine Briggs Short Fiction
48 Unfortunate Ruth Manning-Sanders Short Story
58 Biddy Early's Flying Magic Edmund Lenihan Short Fiction
63 The Morrigu Lady Gregory Short Fiction
66 The Painted Skin P'u Sung-Ling Short Story
70 Lilith and the Blade of Grass Pinhas Sadeh & Martin Buber Short Story
71 Daughter of the Moon, Son of the Sun James Riordan Short Story
76 The Loving Fox Royall Tyler Short Story
77 The Story of Aristomenes (excerpt) Apuleius Short Fiction
85 Ala and the Old Hag Jan Knappert Short Story
87 The Queen's Ring Ruth Manning-Sanders Short Story
93 The Grinning Face of an Old Woman Royall Tyler Short Story
95 The Red Woman Lady Gregory Short Story
99 The Woman Who Turned Her Husband Into a Snake Ruth Benedict Short Story
100 Kertong Carol Kendall & Yao-wen Li Short Story
105 The Boy and the Hare Thomas Cecil Short Story
107 Roland Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm Short Story
111 The Snake Wife Kunio Yanagita Short Story
112 The Old Woman in the Wood Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm Short Story
115 The Leopard Woman Alexander Priestley Camphor Short Story
117 The Three Crones Italo Calvino Short Story
123 The First People and the First Corn Elizabeth Nicolar & Joseph Nicolar Short Story
126 Mistress of Fire James Riordan Short Story
129 Anancy and the Hide-Away Garden James Berry (1924-) Short Story
134 Johnny, Draw the Knife Linda-May Ballard Short Story
136 The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son Von Wliolocki Short Story
139 Mother Holle Grimm Short Story
145 Hooch for Skye! Duncan Williamson & Linda Williamson Short Story
153 The Cauldron-Born (abridged) John Matthews Short Story
157 The Witches' Sabbath Reidar Christiansen Short Story
159 The Birch Besom Alec Stewart Short Story
163 The Broom Is Busy Paulé Bártón Short Story
165 The Horned Women Lady Wilde Short Story
168 The Goodwife of Laggan W. Grant Stewart & Katharine M. Briggs Short Fiction
172 Baba Yaga (No.1) Aleksandr Afanas'ev Short Story
177 Vikram and the Dakini Shahrukh Husain Short Story
182 The Old Eagle-Hawk Woman Roland Robinson Short Fiction
184 The Two Children and the Witch (1st version) Consiglieri Pedroso Short Story
186 My Sweet Witch Jan Knappert Short Story
189 The Curse Susie Hoogasian Villa Short Story
191 Two Children and a Witch unknown Short Story
194 El-Muzayyara Hasan El-Shamy Short Story
199 The Bewitched Churn Patrick Kennedy Short Story
201 Rabbi Joshua and the Witch Howard Schwartz Short Story
204 The Witchmaster's Advice Vance Randolph Short Fiction
205 The Son of Seven Queens Flora Annie Steel Short Story
213 The Caellie Bheur Shahrukh Husain Short Story
215 Hag-Rog Shahrukh Husain Short Story
217 Biddy Early, the Priest and the Crow Edmund Lenihan Short Fiction
219 Petie-Pete Versus Witch Bea-Witch Italo Calvino Short Story
i Lines Written in Dejection W. B. Yeats Poem
xiii Introduction (The Virago Book of Witches) Shahrukh Husain Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Virago Book of Witches Cover 1994 Virago Trade Paperback Anthology xxi+244
The Virago Book of Witches Cover 2013 Virago Trade Paperback Anthology xxi+244