Daughters of the Moon

Lilith, Morgan le Fay, Biddy Early, Baba Yaga: she comes in many forms through the ages to entice, possess, transform, challenge, and even help. From the Leopard Woman of Liberia to Pele, the volcano goddess of Hawaii, witches are found in almost all folklore traditions as far back as 3000 B.C. Here are more than fifty tales of witches from more than thirty cultures worldwide: femmes fatales who sap men's strength and lure them to their doom, cannibalistic hags who prey on abandoned children, shape-shifters, all challenging authority subtly and overtly.