Loved chatting about #LollyWillowes with you & everyone today! Thanks so much for organizing, book recs, & everything!!! @joiedevivre9.bsky.social

Woodcut featuring Agnes Sampson

Excerpt from Wikipedia: Agnes Sampson (died 28 January 1591) was a Scottish healer and purported witch. Also known as the "Wise Wife of Keith", Sampson was executed during the North Berwick witch trials in the last decade of the 16th century.

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“They were going to the Witches’ Sabbath. Mrs. Leak was a witch too; a matronly witch like Agnes Sampson…” (p170) #LollyWillowes

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8. Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes — Backlisted Sylvia Townsend Warner's debut novel 'Lolly Willowes' is the main book under discussion in this episode. It's nominated by journalist, author & playwright Samantha Ellis, and she discusses witchcr...

And here is the equally brilliant @backlisted.bsky.social discussion about the book!

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Coincidentally (but v aptly) finished #LollyWillowes last night. Happy Halloween!!

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For #Lollywillowes fans, in #sylviatownsendwarner 1929 The True Heart: "A wisp of straw blew past them like a witch on a broomstick, and the crouched thorns clapped their skeleton hands."