“A witch never gets caught. Don’t forget that she has magic in her fingers and devilry dancing in her blood.”
— Roald Dahl, The Witches
“Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last past what you can see, and turn against you.”
— Witch, in Into the Woods
“Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“For a witch stands on the very edge of everything, between the light and the dark, between life and death.”
— Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd’s Crown
“For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.”
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“We have nothing if not belief.”
— C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
“Dogs guard; cats watch … and judge.”
— Sabrina the Teenage Witch
“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
― Neil Gaiman
“Evil is usually attractive, because evil is defiant.”
– Angela Carter
My hour is almost come, When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames Must render up myself.
– Shakespeare, Hamlet
WE are accustomed to murder mysteries where all the characters have motives for murder, but Rick Abbot’s play But Why Bump Off Barnaby?, chosen by Mere Amateur Drama Society for the next production, comes at the dastardly deed from a different angle.