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Duration October 1, 2023- December 31, 2023
Level 2 11-15 Tasks
You may use each task once.
14/11-15 Completed. Finished
TASKS
1. Morgan Le Fay
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is powerful (your interpretation) or
On the Shore-Laura Pavlov 10/19/23
read a book where a character texts someone or read a book about King Arthur.
2. Aradia
🧙♀️Read a book about Wicca or read a book with a character who is Roman Catholic or read a book where the authors initials can be found in PAGAN.
3. Marie Laveau
🧙♀️Read a book set in New Orleans or read a book where a character practices voodoo or
read a book where a character's wish comes true (tell us what the wish was).
(MC wished that he could find the girl he met in the woods when they were young children and it happens)
It Ain't Me, Babe-Tillie Cole 10/02/23
4. Mother Shipton
🧙♀️Read a book set in England or read a book where a character fails a test or read a book with a character who is a mother.
5. La Voisin
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character practices black magic or
read a book where someone is murdered or
The Dying Place-Charly Cox 10/05/23
a book set in France.
6. Alice Kyteler
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is beaten or
The Girl in the Woods-A.J. Rivers 10/12/23
with a character who is a servant or set in Ireland.
7. Rebecca Nurse
🧙♀️Read a book where a character is a nurse or
Another One Bites the Dust-Lani Lynn Vale 11/03/23
with a character called Rebecca, Mary or Sarah, or
(MC Sarah)
Indelible-Karin Slaughter 10/19/23
with a character who is well respected.
The Missing Daughter-Elle Gray 10/13/23
8. Tituba
🧙♀️ Read a book( fiction or nonfiction) about the Salem witch trials or where a character is imprisoned or
with a character who is Native American.
Dead White-M.K. Coker 10/07/23
9. Moll Dyer
🧙♀️Read a book with an object made from stone on the cover (Show cover) or
set in Maryland or
White Lines-Tom Fowler 11/10/23
where a character is chased by someone or something. (Tell us briefly who and what was chasing them).
10. Malin Matsdotter
🧙♀️ Read a book set in Sweden or where a character was burned to death or that a child runs away from home.
11. Isobel Gowdie
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is a fairy or that a character who is a devil (your interpretation) or
a book that is sixth in a series.
(Southern Wedding)
Mine to Promise-Natasha Madison 11/02/23
12. Dion Fortune
🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is a magician or with a light on the cover (Show cover) or
that the authors initials can be found in OCCULT.
Linda Castillo-Her Last Breath 10/06/23
13. Merga Bien
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is pregnant or read a book set in Germany or
read a book that the first letter of the location of the book can be found in FULDA.
(Argentina)
Cold Cruel Kiss-Toni Anderson 10/08/23
14. Laurie Cabot
🧙♀️Read a book set in Massachusetts or read a book with a character who is a founder of something (Ex a business, a league) or
where the MC's initials can be found in WITCHCRAFT.
(Rebecca West)
Shadow's Deadline-Mary Stone 10/15/23
15. Agnes Sampson
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character shaves or set in Scotland or with a character who is tortured
Unbeautifully-Madeline Sheehan 10/12/23

Duration October 1, 2023- 12/31/2023
(11/05/23)
Level 2 11-15 Tasks
NOTE: You may use each task once.
TASKS l4/11+
(< 1 each - 15 possible)
☑️ 1. Morgan Le Fay (1)
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is powerful (your interpretation)
X or read a book where a character texts someone
Sand Trapped (Cara Mia Delgatto 6) Joanna Campbell Slan (p. 37 “. . . I opened my phone to text Andrea . . .”) 10/03/23
or read a book about King Arthur.
☑️ 2. Aradia (1)
🧙♀️Read a book about Wicca
X or read a book with a character who is Roman Catholic
&
or read a book where the authors initials can be found in PAGAN.
Hello Beautiful Ann Napolitano (The Padavanos are Catholics) 10/02/23
☑️ 3. Marie Laveau (1)
🧙♀️Read a book set in New Orleans
or read a book where a character practices voodoo
X or read a book where a character's wish comes true (tell us what the wish was).
Too Hard to Forget (Clarksons 3) Tessa Bailey (Elliott wished for a second chance with Peggy) 10/03/23
☑️ 4. Mother Shipton (1)
🧙♀️Read a book set in England
or read a book where a character fails a test
X or read a book with a character who is a mother.
For a Few Dumplings More (Meeta Patel 3) Leena Clover (Sally) 10/02/23
☑️ 5. La Voisin (1)
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character practices black magic
or read a book where someone is murdered
X or a book set in France.
The Paris Daughter Kristin Harmel 10/01/23
☑️ 6. Alice Kyteler (1)
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is beaten
or with a character who is a servant
X or set in Ireland.
No Strangers Here (County Kerry Mystery 1) Carlene O'Connor 10/10/23
☑️ 7. Rebecca Nurse (1)
🧙♀️Read a book where a character is a nurse
or with a character called Rebecca, Mary or Sarah,
X or with a character who is well respected.
The Brothers Hawthorne (Inheritance Games 4) Jennifer Lynn Barnes (The Proprietor) 10/12/23
☑️ 8. Tituba (1)
🧙♀️ Read a book( fiction or nonfiction) about the Salem witch trials
X or where a character is imprisoned
Halloween Party Murder (Lucy Stone 27.5) Leslie Meier (Ty is imprisoned for his wife’s murder) 10/08/23
or with a character who is Native American.
☑️ 9. Moll Dyer (1)
X 🧙♀️Read a book with an object made from stone on the cover (Show cover)
One Poison Pie (Kitchen Witch Mystery 1) Lynn Cahoon (granite kitchen counters)

or set in Maryland
or where a character is chased by someone or something. (Tell us briefly who and what was chasing them).
☑️ 10. Malin Matsdotter
🧙♀️ Read a book set in Sweden
or where a character was burned to death
X or that a child runs away from home.
Grave Sight (Harper Connolly 1) Charlaine Harris (p. 169 - Mariella age 11 runs away 11/05/23
11. Isobel Gowdie
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is a fairy
or that a character who is a devil (your interpretation)
or a book that is sixth in a series.
☑️ 12. Dion Fortune (1)
🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is a magician
or with a light on the cover (Show cover)
X or that the authors initials can be found in OCCULT.
A Pocket Full of Pie (Meeta Patel 2) Leena Clover 10/01/23
☑️ 13. Merga Bien (1)
X 🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is pregnant
Future Home of the Living God Louise Erdrich (Cedar is pregnant)10/03/23
or read a book set in Germany
or read a book that the first letter of the location of the book can be found in FULDA.
☑️ 14. Laurie Cabot (1)
🧙♀️Read a book set in Massachusetts
or read a book with a character who is a founder of something (Ex a business, a league)
X or where the MC's initials can be found in WITCHCRAFT.
Too Wild to Tame (Romancing the Clarkson 2) Tessa Bailey (Aaron Clarkson) 10/01/23
☑️ 15. Agnes Sampson (1)
X 🧙♀️ Read a book where a character shaves
Bright Lights, Big Christmas Mary Kay Andrews (@61% & 80% Murphy & Heinz @93%) 10/05/23
or set in Scotland
or with a character who is tortured.

Level 1: 5- 10 Tasks
Level 2 11-15 Tasks
You may use each task once.
15/15
TASKS
1. Morgan Le Fay
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is powerful (your interpretation) or
🧙♀️ read a book where a character texts someone or
Protecting Colton's Baby - Tara Taylor Quinn (HRS #2219 - Mar 2023) - Oct 20
🧙♀️ read a book about King Arthur.

2. Aradia
🧙♀️Read a book about Wicca or
🧙♀️ read a book with a character who is Roman Catholic or
The Night They Never Forgot - Scarlet Wilson (HMED #1255 - July 2022) - Oct 2
🧙♀️ read a book where the author's initials can be found in PAGAN.

3. Marie Laveau
🧙♀️Read a book set in New Orleans or
🧙♀️ read a book where a character practices voodoo or
🧙♀️ read a book where a character's wish comes true (tell us what the wish was).
The Nurse's Holiday Swap - Ann McIntosh (HMED #1351 - Nov 2023) (white Christmas) - Oct 31

4. Mother Shipton
🧙♀️Read a book set in England or
How to Survive a Scandal - Christine Merrill (HH #1683 - Nov 2022) - Oct 20
🧙♀️ read a book where a character fails a test or
🧙♀️ read a book with a character who is a mother.

5. La Voisin
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character practices black magic or
🧙♀️ read a book where someone is murdered or
Killer on Kestrel Trail - Cindi Myers (HI #2177 - Nov 2023) - Oct 22
🧙♀️ a book set in France.

6. Alice Kyteler
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is beaten or
🧙♀️ with a character who is a servant or
🧙♀️ set in Ireland.
A Christmas Miracle in the Little Irish Village - Michelle Vernal (Bookouture - Oct 2023) - Oct 13

7. Rebecca Nurse
🧙♀️Read a book where a character is a nurse or
🧙♀️ with a character called Rebecca, Mary or Sarah, or
🧙♀️ with a character who is well respected.
Cinderella and the Vicomte - Jessica Gilmore (HR #4804 - May 2022) - Oct 1

8. Tituba
🧙♀️ Read a book( fiction or nonfiction) about the Salem witch trials or
🧙♀️ where a character is imprisoned or
🧙♀️ with a character who is Native American.
Misty Hollow Massacre - Carol Ericson (HI #2184 - Dec 2023) - Nov 28

9. Moll Dyer
🧙♀️Read a book with an object made from stone on the cover (Show cover) or
Lyon of the Ton - Emily Royal (Dragonblade Pub - Oct 2023) (stone wall) - Oct 20
🧙♀️ set in Maryland or
🧙♀️ where a character is chased by someone or something. (Tell us briefly who and what was chasing them).

10. Malin Matsdotter
🧙♀️ Read a book set in Sweden or
🧙♀️ where a character was burned to death or
Early Sunday Morning - Barry Denenberg (Scholastic - Oct 2001) - Oct 21
🧙♀️ a child runs away from home.

11. Isobel Gowdie
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is a fairy or
🧙♀️ a character who is a devil (your interpretation) or
🧙♀️ a book that is sixth in a series.
One Steamy Night - Brenda Jackson (HD #2977 - Nov 2023) - Oct 31

12. Dion Fortune
🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is a magician or
🧙♀️ with a light on the cover (Show cover) or
🧙♀️ the author's initials can be found in OCCULT.
Miss Rose and the Vexing Viscount - Catherine Tinley (HH #1756 - Nov 2023) - Oct 31

13. Merga Bien
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is pregnant or
Texas Bodyguard: Chance - Janie Crouch (HI #2167 - Sept 2023) - Oct 20
🧙♀️ read a book set in Germany or
🧙♀️ read a book that the first letter of the location of the book can be found in FULDA.

14. Laurie Cabot
🧙♀️Read a book set in Massachusetts or
🧙♀️ read a book with a character who is a founder of something (Ex a business, a league) or
Mistletoe Magic in Tahiti - Kandy Shepherd (HR #4875 - Nov 2023) - Oct 31
🧙♀️ where the MC's initials can be found in WITCHCRAFT.

15. Agnes Sampson
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character shaves or
Bodyguard Most Wanted - Katherine Garbera (HRS #2254 - Nov 2023) - Oct 31
🧙♀️ set in Scotland or
🧙♀️ with a character who is tortured.


Calling All Witches
Duration October 1, 2023- 12/31/2023
Goal: 15/15
Level 2 11-15 Tasks
TASKS
**1. Morgan Le Fay**
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is powerful (your interpretation).
Return to Armageddon - Malcolm Shaw - 10/23/23 - The Destroyer
**2. Aradia**
🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is Roman Catholic.
Xombi - John Rozrum - 11/22/23 - Nun of the Above
**3. Marie Laveau**
🧙♀️Read a book where a character's wish comes true (tell us what the wish was).
An Unexpected Home - Bree Kraemer - 10/08/23 - Leah Britton wished for a new (and happy) life in a small town.
**4. Mother Shipton**
🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is a mother.
Lady Tan's Circle Of Women - Lisa See - 10/24/23 - Tan Yunxian
**5. La Voisin**
🧙♀️ Read a book where someone is murdered.
Murder at the Pumpkin Pageant - Darci Hannah - 10/29/23
**6. Alice Kyteler**
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is beaten.
Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell - 11/26/23 - Eleanor's mother
**7. Rebecca Nurse**
🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is well respected.
Other Birds - Sarah Addison Allen - 10/07/23 - Roscoe Avanger, the author
**8. Tituba**
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is imprisoned.
Goliath - Tochi Onyebuchi - 11/13/23 - One of the unnamed narrators of the story was imprisoned.
**9. Moll Dyer**
🧙♀️Read a book set in Maryland.
Chasing the Boogeyman - Richard Chizmar - 10/15/23 - Edgewood, Maryland
**10. Malin Matsdotter**
🧙♀️ Read a book where a child runs away from home.
Alaska Adventurer - Ann Omasta - 11/25/23 - Cleo
**11. Isobel Gowdie**
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is a fairy.
Magical Makeover - Brenda Trim - 10/20/23 - Mythia
**12. Dion Fortune**
🧙♀️Read a book that the authors initials can be found in OCCULT.
Infinity 8 Vol. 2 - Lewis Trondheim - 10/29/23
**13. Merga Bien**
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is pregnant.
Alone - Barbara De Smedt - 11/05/23 - Julie Meskens
**14. Laurie Cabot**
🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is a founder of something (Ex a business, a league).
Black Hills - Nora Roberts - 11/18/23 - Lil Chance is the founder of the Chance Wildlife Refuge
**15. Agnes Sampson**
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character shaves.
Brides of Iowa: Three Loves Are Sweet Surprises along Willow Creek - Connie Stevens - 11/25/23 - Everett Behr - If it weren’t for having to shave, he might well refuse to own a mirror. With cautious, deliberate strokes, he drew the razor around the scars along his jawline on the right side of his face. (Kindle Locations 4682-4683)

Calling all witches
Duration October 1, 2023- December 31, 2023
14/11
Level 2 11-15 Tasks
You may use each task once.
TASKS
1. Morgan Le Fay
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is powerful (your interpretation) or
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character texts someone or
Bad Dolls by Rachel Harrison 10/31
🧙♀️ Read a book about King Arthur.
2. Aradia
🧙♀️Read a book about Wicca or
🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is Roman Catholic or
Mango, Mambo, and Murder by Raquel V. Reyes 10/20
🧙♀️Read a book where the authors initials can be found in PAGAN.
3. Marie Laveau
🧙♀️Read a book set in New Orleans
Wined and Died in New Orleans by Ellen Byron 10/7
🧙♀️Read a book where a character practices voodoo
🧙♀️Read a book where a character's wish comes true (tell us what the wish was).
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 10/28 To find a home
4. Mother Shipton
🧙♀️Read a book set in England or
🧙♀️Read a book where a character fails a test or
🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is a mother.
Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison 10/27
5. La Voisin
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character practices black magic
Rouge by Mona Awad 11/7
🧙♀️ read a book where someone is murdered
Cold Turkey by Shelley Freydont 11/17
🧙♀️ or a book set in France.
6. Alice Kyteler
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is beaten or
🧙♀️ With a character who is a servant or
Seven Dead by J. Jefferson Farjeon 10/12
🧙♀️ Set in Ireland.
7. Rebecca Nurse
🧙♀️Read a book where a character is a nurse or with a character called Rebecca, Mary or Sarah, or with a character who is well respected.
8. Tituba
🧙♀️ Read a book( fiction or nonfiction) about the Salem witch trials
🧙♀️ Where a character is imprisoned
Ankle Snatcher by Grady Hendrix 10/8
🧙♀️ With a character who is Native American.
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology 11/29
9. Moll Dyer
🧙♀️Read a book with an object made from stone on the cover (Show cover) or set in Maryland or where a character is chased by someone or something. (Tell us briefly who and what was chasing them).
10. Malin Matsdotter
🧙♀️ Read a book set in Sweden or
🧙♀️ Where a character was burned to death or
We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe 10/20
🧙♀️ That a child runs away from home.
11. Isobel Gowdie
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is a fairy or that a character who is a devil (your interpretation) or a book that is sixth in a series.
12. Dion Fortune
🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is a magician
🧙♀️ with a light on the cover (Show cover)

🧙♀️that the authors initials can be found in OCCULT.
13. Merga Bien
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is pregnant
The Pram by Joe Hill 10/6
🧙♀️ Read a book set in Germany
🧙♀️ Read a book that the first letter of the location of the book can be found in FULDA.
A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher 10/13
14. Laurie Cabot
🧙♀️Read a book set in Massachusetts or read a book with a character who is a founder of something (Ex a business, a league) or where the MC's initials can be found in WITCHCRAFT.
15. Agnes Sampson
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character shaves
Triple Jeopardy by Rex Stout 11/7
🧙♀️ or set in Scotland
Strong Female Character by Fern Brady 12/1
🧙♀️ or with a character who is tortured.

TASKS
1. Morgan Le Fay
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is powerful (your interpretation) or read a book where a character texts someone or read a book about King Arthur.
2. Aradia
🧙♀️Read a book about Wicca or read a book with a character who is Roman Catholic or read a book where the authors initials can be found in PAGAN.
3. Marie Laveau
🧙♀️Read a book set in New Orleans or read a book where a character practices voodoo or read a book where a character's wish comes true (tell us what the wish was).
4. Mother Shipton
🧙♀️Read a book set in England or read a book where a character fails a test or read a book with a character who is a mother.
5. La Voisin
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character practices black magic or read a book where someone is murdered or a book set in France.
6. Alice Kyteler
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is beaten or with a character who is a servant or set in Ireland.
7. Rebecca Nurse
🧙♀️Read a book where a character is a nurse or with a character called Rebecca, Mary or Sarah, or with a character who is well respected.
8. Tituba
🧙♀️ Read a book( fiction or nonfiction) about the Salem witch trials or where a character is imprisoned or with a character who is Native American.
9. Moll Dyer
🧙♀️Read a book with an object made from stone on the cover (Show cover) or set in Maryland or where a character is chased by someone or something. (Tell us briefly who and what was chasing them).
10. Malin Matsdotter
🧙♀️ Read a book set in Sweden or where a character was burned to death or that a child runs away from home.
11. Isobel Gowdie
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is a fairy or that a character who is a devil (your interpretation) or a book that is sixth in a series.
12. Dion Fortune
🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is a magician or with a light on the cover (Show cover) or that the authors initials can be found in OCCULT.
13. Merga Bien
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is pregnant or read a book set in Germany or read a book that the first letter of thelocation of the book can be found in FULDA.
14. Laurie Cabot
🧙♀️Read a book set in Massachusetts or read a book with a character who is a founder of something (Ex a business, a league) or where the MC's initials can be found in WITCHCRAFT.
15. Agnes Sampson
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character shaves or set in Scotland or with a character who is tortured.

Duration: October 1 - December 31, 2023
Level 2 11-15 Tasks
READ: 31/15
1. Morgan Le Fay
✔ 🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is powerful (your interpretation)
The Girl the Sea Gave Back - Adrienne Young (Torvah) 10/4
✔ 🧙♀️read a book where a character texts someone
Unnatural Causes - Dawn Eastman (Katie texts Matt) 10/11
2. Aradia
✔ 🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is Roman Catholic
Night of the Witch - Sara Raasch & Beth Revis (Otto) 10/14
3. Marie Laveau
✔ 🧙♀️read a book where a character practices voodoo
Swamp Spirits - Jana Deleon (Destiny) 10/19
✔ 🧙♀️read a book where a character's wish comes true.
Heart of Fire - Bec McMaster 10/28
(MC wishes her very sick father was healed...and he was)
4. Mother Shipton
✔ 🧙♀️Read a book set in England
The Peacock's Poison - Ruby Loren 11/18
✔ 🧙♀️read a book where a character fails a test
Force of Nature - Jane Harper 11/4
(Brianna fails to navigate the forest in a corporate retreat)
✔ 🧙♀️read a book with a character who is a mother.
23rd Midnight - James Patterson (Lindsay) 10/8
5. La Voisin
✔ 🧙♀️ Read a book where a character practices black magic
Grave Witch - Kalayna Price (Coleman) 11/3
✔ 🧙♀️read a book where someone is murdered
Malice House - Megan Shepherd 10/5
6. Alice Kyteler
✔ 🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is beaten
The Bone Shard Daughter - Andrea Stewart (Bion) 10/28
✔ 🧙♀️read a book with a character who is a servant
The September House - Carissa Orlando (Frericka) 11/6
7. Rebecca Nurse
✔ 🧙♀️Read a book where a character is a nurse
The Taken Ones - Jess Lourey (Rue Larsen) 10/17
✔ 🧙♀️read a book with a character called Rebecca, Mary or Sarah
Death, Taxes, and Hot-Pink Leg Warmers - Diane Kelly (Sarah Galloway) 10/6
✔ 🧙♀️read a book with a character who is well respected.
Death Knells and Wedding Bells - Eva Gates (Lucy McNeil) 10/22
8. Tituba
✔ 🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is imprisoned
Chasm - Stacey McEwan (Dawsyn) 10/21
✔ 🧙♀️read a book with a character who is Native American.
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology - Shane Hawk 10/2
9. Moll Dyer
✔ 🧙♀️Read a book with an object made from stone on the cover (Show cover)
Spotted at the Cemetery - Addison Moore & Bellamy Bloom (grave stones) 11/27

✔ 🧙♀️read a book where a character is chased by someone or something.
Ledge - Stacey McEwan (heroine by evil creatures) 10/9
10. Malin Matsdotter
✔ 🧙♀️read a book where a character was burned to death
Classics Mutilated - Jeff Conner (Eilif) 10/31
11. Isobel Gowdie
✔ 🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is a fairy
Hidden Huntress - Danielle L. Jensen (Tristan) 11/20
✔ 🧙♀️read a book with a character who is a devil (your interpretation)
Intimate Enemies: A Novel - Shana Abe (Murdoch) 11/23
12. Dion Fortune
✔ 🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is a magician
The Librarian of Crooked Lane - C.J. Archer (Ludlow) 10/25
✔ 🧙♀️read a book with a light on the cover
A Merciful Secret - Kendra Elliot 11/26

✔ 🧙♀️read a book where the authors initials can be found in OCCULT.
Gone with the Whisker - Laurie Cass 10/15
13. Merga Bien
✔ 🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is pregnant
Never Lie - Freida McFadden (Tricia) 10/2
✔ 🧙♀️read a book that the first letter of the location of the book can be found in FULDA.
Dreadful - Jana Deleon (Louisiana)) 11/18
14. Laurie Cabot
✔ 🧙♀️read a book with a character who is a founder of something (Ex a business, a league)
Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix - C.B. Lee 11/25
(MCs mother is the founder of the Dread Pirates)
✔ 🧙♀️read a book where the MC's initials can be found in WITCHCRAFT.
The Toybox - Charly Cox (Alyssa Wyatt) 10/12
15. Agnes Sampson
✔ 🧙♀️ Read a book where a character shaves
Aftershock - Andrew Vachss 10/27
(let me just shower and shave),p289
✔ 🧙♀️read a book with a character who is tortured.
Uncharted - Erin Cashman (Griffin) 10/22
CHALLENGE COMPLETE
Welcome Shari (you can use books from October 1, 2023 and the challenge ends at the end of this month. Congrats Barbara
Shari wrote: "Greetings and Salutations! I am new here hopefully I do this right :) Looking forward to this challenge!
TASKS
1. Morgan Le Fay
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is powerful (your interpreta..."
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TASKS
1. Morgan Le Fay
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is powerful (your interpreta..."
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FINISHED
Calling all witches
Duration October 1, 2023- December 31, 2023
Level 1: 5- 10 Tasks
Level 2 11-15 Tasks
You may use each task once.
TASKS
1. Morgan Le Fay
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is powerful
Southern Conjuring by Amy Boyles 12/16/2023
2. Aradia
🧙♀️Read a book where the authors initials can be found in PAGAN.
Scented Sensibility by Amelia C. Adams 11/29/2023
3. Marie Laveau
🧙♀️Read a book where a character's wish comes true (tell us what the wish was). To have the Sheriff ask her to marry her
Taming the Sheriff by Cynthia Hickey 12/17/2023
4. Mother Shipton
🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is a mother.
A Batter of Life and Death by Ellie Alexander 10/29/2023
5. La Voisin
🧙♀️ Read a book where someone is murdered
Dough or Die by Winnie Archer 10/26/2023
6. Alice Kyteler
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is beaten or with a character who is a servant or set in Ireland.
7. Rebecca Nurse
🧙♀️Read a book where a character is a nurse or with a character called Rebecca, Mary or Sarah, or with a character who is well respected.
8. Tituba
🧙♀️ Read a book( fiction or nonfiction) about the Salem witch trials or where a character is imprisoned or with a character who is Native American.
9. Moll Dyer
🧙♀️Read a book with an object made from stone on the cover (Show cover) or set in Maryland or where a character is chased by someone or something. (Tell us briefly who and what was chasing them).
10. Malin Matsdotter
🧙♀️ Read a book set in Sweden or where a character was burned to death or that a child runs away from home.
11. Isobel Gowdie
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is a fairy or that a character who is a devil (your interpretation) or a book that is sixth in a series.
12. Dion Fortune
🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is a magician or with a light on the cover (Show cover) or that the authors initials can be found in OCCULT.
13. Merga Bien
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is pregnant or read a book set in Germany or read a book that the first letter of thelocation of the book can be found in FULDA.
14. Laurie Cabot
🧙♀️Read a book set in Massachusetts or read a book with a character who is a founder of something (Ex a business, a league) or where the MC's initials can be found in WITCHCRAFT.
15. Agnes Sampson
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character shaves or set in Scotland or with a character who is tortured.
Calling all witches
Duration October 1, 2023- December 31, 2023
Level 1: 5- 10 Tasks
Level 2 11-15 Tasks
You may use each task once.
TASKS
1. Morgan Le Fay
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is powerful
Southern Conjuring by Amy Boyles 12/16/2023
2. Aradia
🧙♀️Read a book where the authors initials can be found in PAGAN.
Scented Sensibility by Amelia C. Adams 11/29/2023
3. Marie Laveau
🧙♀️Read a book where a character's wish comes true (tell us what the wish was). To have the Sheriff ask her to marry her
Taming the Sheriff by Cynthia Hickey 12/17/2023
4. Mother Shipton
🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is a mother.
A Batter of Life and Death by Ellie Alexander 10/29/2023
5. La Voisin
🧙♀️ Read a book where someone is murdered
Dough or Die by Winnie Archer 10/26/2023
6. Alice Kyteler
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is beaten or with a character who is a servant or set in Ireland.
7. Rebecca Nurse
🧙♀️Read a book where a character is a nurse or with a character called Rebecca, Mary or Sarah, or with a character who is well respected.
8. Tituba
🧙♀️ Read a book( fiction or nonfiction) about the Salem witch trials or where a character is imprisoned or with a character who is Native American.
9. Moll Dyer
🧙♀️Read a book with an object made from stone on the cover (Show cover) or set in Maryland or where a character is chased by someone or something. (Tell us briefly who and what was chasing them).
10. Malin Matsdotter
🧙♀️ Read a book set in Sweden or where a character was burned to death or that a child runs away from home.
11. Isobel Gowdie
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is a fairy or that a character who is a devil (your interpretation) or a book that is sixth in a series.
12. Dion Fortune
🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is a magician or with a light on the cover (Show cover) or that the authors initials can be found in OCCULT.
13. Merga Bien
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is pregnant or read a book set in Germany or read a book that the first letter of thelocation of the book can be found in FULDA.
14. Laurie Cabot
🧙♀️Read a book set in Massachusetts or read a book with a character who is a founder of something (Ex a business, a league) or where the MC's initials can be found in WITCHCRAFT.
15. Agnes Sampson
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character shaves or set in Scotland or with a character who is tortured.

Calling All Witches
October 1, 2023- December 31, 2023
13 of 11-15 Tasks Complete
Level 2 - 11-15 Tasks
You may use each task once.
TASKS
🔹1. Morgan Le Fay
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is powerful (your interpretation).
The Conqueror's Wife: A Novel of Alexander the Great - Stephanie Marie Thornton - 11/30/23
🔹2. Aradia
🧙♀️Read a book where the authors initials can be found in PAGAN.
Not the Witch You Wed - April Asher - 10/24/23
🔹3. Marie Laveau
🧙♀️Read a book where a character practices voodoo.
In Deep Voodoo - Stephanie Bond - 10/6/23
🔹4. Mother Shipton
🧙♀️ Read a book set in England.
What Darkness Brings - C.S. Harris - 10/16/23
🔹5. La Voisin
🧙♀️ Read a book set in France.
The Black Swan of Paris - Karen Robards - 10/13/23
🔹6. Alice Kyteler
🧙♀️ Read a book set in Ireland.
Dark Witch - Nora Roberts - 10/15/23
🔹7. Rebecca Nurse
🧙♀️Read a book with a character called Rebecca, Mary or Sarah.
Kisscut - Karin Slaughter - 10/9/23
8. Tituba
🧙♀️ Read a book( fiction or nonfiction) about the Salem witch trials or where a character is imprisoned or with a character who is Native American.
🔹9. Moll Dyer
🧙♀️Read a book set in Maryland.
Baltimore Blues - Laura Lippman - 12/6/23
10. Malin Matsdotter
🧙♀️ Read a book set in Sweden or where a character was burned to death or that a child runs away from home.
🔹11. Isobel Gowdie
🧙♀️ Read a book that is sixth in a series.
Lethal Justice - Fern Michaels - 11/13/23 - #6 The Sisterhood
🔹12. Dion Fortune
🧙♀️Read a book with a light on the cover (show cover).
The Tenant - Katrine Engberg - 11/17/23

🔹13. Merga Bien
🧙♀️ Read a book where the first letter of the location of the book can be found in FULDA.
Winter's End - Paige Shelton - 10/8/23 - set in Alaska
🔹14. Laurie Cabot
🧙♀️Read a book where the MC's initials can be found in WITCHCRAFT.
Present Danger - Elizabeth Goddard - 10/4/23 - MC = Terra Connors
🔹15. Agnes Sampson
🧙♀️ Read a book set in Scotland.
Grayfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Skye Terrier - Eleanor Atkinson - 12/19/23

11/15
1. Morgan Le Fay
Morgan le Fay is a powerful enchantress from the legend of King Arthur, in which most often she and he are siblings. Early appearances of Morgan have her role as a goddess, a fay, a witch, or a sorceress, generally benevolent and connected to Arthur as his magical savior and protector. Her prominence increased developed over time, as did her moral ambivalence, and in some texts there is an evolutionary transformation of her to an antagonist. A significant aspect in many of Morgan's medieval and later iterations is the unpredictable duality of her nature, with potential for both good and evil.
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is powerful (your interpretation) Soul Eater
2. Aradia
Aradia is one of the principal figures in the American folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland's 1899 work Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, which he believed to be a genuine religious text used by a group of pagan witches in Tuscany, a claim that has subsequently been disputed. In Leland's Gospel, Aradia is portrayed as a messiah who was sent to Earth in order to teach the oppressed peasants how to perform witchcraft to use against the Roman Catholic Church and the upper classes. Since the publication Aradia has become "arguably one of the central figures of the modern pagan witchcraft revival" and as such has featured in various forms of Neopaganism, including Wicca and Stregheria, as an actual deity.
🧙♀️Read a book about Wicca or read a book with a character who is Roman Catholic or read a book where the authors initials can be found in PAGAN.
3. Marie Laveau
Marie Catherine Laveau was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, herbalist and midwife who was renowned in New Orleans. She excelled at obtaining inside information on her wealthy patrons at the beauty parlor by listening to ladies gossiping, or from their servants whom she either paid or cured of mysterious ailments. She used this information during her Voodoo consultations with wealthy Orleanian women to enhance her image as a clairvoyant; and used this intel to give them practical advice. She also made money by selling her clients gris gris as charms to help their wishes come true.
🧙♀️Read a book set in New Orleans Haunted on Bourbon Street
4. Mother Shipton
Ursula Southeil popularly known as Mother Shipton, was an English soothsayer and prophetess according to English folklore. She is associated with folklore involving the origin of the Rollright Stones of Oxfordshire, reportedly a king and his men transformed to stone after failing her test.
🧙♀️Read a book set in England The Twelve Dates of Christmas
5. La Voisin
Catherine Monvoisin, was a French fortune teller, commissioned poisoner, and professional provider of alleged sorcery. She was the head of a network of fortune tellers in Paris providing poison, aphrodisiacs, abortion, purported magical services and the arranging of black masses, with clients among the aristocracy, and became the central figure in the famous affaire des poisons. Her purported organization of commissioned black magic and poison murder was suspected to have killed 1,000 people, but it is believed that upwards of 2,500 people might have been murdered.
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character practices black magic or read a book where someone is murdered Mistletoe Malarkey
6. Alice Kyteler
Dame Alice Kyteler was the first recorded person condemned for witchcraft in Ireland. She fled the country to either England or Flanders, and there is no record of her after her escape from persecution. Kyteler had 4 husbands and the crimes against her were denying Christ, asking for advice and sacrificing animals to demons, holding covens and practicing black magic. Plus it was thought she killed and bewitched her husbands. Her servant Petronilla de Meath was flogged and burned to death at the stake after being tortured and confessing to the heretical crimes she, Kyteler, and Kyteler's followers were alleged to have committed.
🧙♀️Read a book where a character is beaten or with a character who is a servant or set in Ireland. The Cross of Ciaran Set in Ireland
7. Rebecca Nurse
Rebecca Nurse was a woman who was accused of witchcraft and executed by hanging in New England during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. She was fully exonerated fewer than twenty years later. She was the wife of Francis Nurse, and had several children. Rebecca was a well-respected member of the community. She was tried and convicted in the spring and summer of 1692 and executed on July 19. Her married sisters Mary Eastey and Sarah Cloyce were also accused. Mary was convicted and executed, but Sarah managed to survive. (maybe she really was a witch).
🧙♀️Read a book where a character called Rebecca, Mary or Sarah, or with a character who is well respected. Assistant to the Villain a character called Rebecca
8. Tituba
Tituba was a Native American enslaved woman who was one of the first to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials of 1692–1693. She was owned by colonial Massachusetts Samuel Parris, the minister of Salem Village. She was pivotal in the trials because she confessed to witchcraft when examined by the authorities, giving credence to the accusations. She accused the two other women, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne, of the same crime. She was imprisoned for over a year but never went to trial. It is unknown what happened to her after the case against her was dismissed by a grand jury in May 1693.
🧙♀️ Read a book( fiction or nonfiction) about the Salem witch trials or where a character is imprisoned or with a character who is Native American.
9. Moll Dyer
Moll Dyer is the name of a legendary 17th-century resident of Leonardtown, Maryland, who is said to have been accused of witchcraft and chased out of her home by the local townsfolk on a winter night. Her body was allegedly found a few days later, partially frozen to a large stone.
🧙♀️Read a book where a character is chased by someone or something. (Tell us briefly who and what was chasing them). Southern Spirits Verity and Ellis are chased through the tunnel of Ellis' property by the ghost of a murdered girl (Joy) and then by the mayor when he comes to move Joy's body
10. Malin Matsdotter
Malin Matsdotter was an alleged Swedish witch. She was one of a few people in Sweden confirmed to have been executed by burning for witchcraft, and the only one to be executed by this method during the famous witch hunt Det Stora oväsendet ('The Great Noise') during 1668–1676, which ended with her execution. In 1668, her husband was executed for having intercourse with a cow. He had been reported by their 13-year-old daughter Anna, after she and her sister had been brought home after running away to escape being beaten by their father, then by their mother at their father's command.
🧙♀️ Read a book set in Sweden or where a character was burned to death or that a child runs away from home.
11. Isobel Gowdie
Isobel Gowdie was a Scottish woman who confessed to witchcraft at Auldearn near Nairn during 1662. Her detailed testimony, apparently achieved without the use of violent torture, provides one of the most comprehensive insights into European witchcraft folklore at the end of the era of witch-hunts. The four confessions she made over a period of six weeks include details of charms and rhymes, claims she was a member of a coven in the service of the Devil and that she met with the fairy queen and king. Lurid information concerning carnal dealings with the Devil were also provided.
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is a fairy or that a character who is a devil (your interpretation) or a book that is sixth in a series.
12. Dion Fortune
Dion Fortune was a British occultist, ceremonial magician, novelist and author. She was a co-founder of the Fraternity of the Inner Light, an occult organization that promoted philosophies which she claimed had been taught to her by spiritual entities known as the Ascended Masters.
🧙♀️Read a book that the authors initials can be found in OCCULT. Christmas Honeymoon (For One): An Enemies to Lovers Contemporary Holiday Romance HOpe AgusT
13. Merga Bien
Merga Bien was a German woman convicted of witchcraft and one of the most famous of the victims in the Fulda witch trials in 1603–05. Merga was arrested and put in jail. Her husband protested before the Reichskammergericht in Speyer and pointed out that she was pregnant. In jail, she was forced to confess to the murder of her second husband and her children with him and one member of the family of her husband's employers, and that she had taken part in a sabbath of Satan. Her pregnancy was considered an aggravating circumstance; she and her husband had no children although they had been married for fourteen years. She was forced to confess that her current pregnancy was the result of intercourse with the Devil. Bien was convicted of witchcraft and burnt alive at the stake in Fulda in late 1603.
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is pregnant Husking for Nebraska
14. Laurie Cabot
Laurie Cabot is an American Witchcraft high priestess, and the author of several books. She founded the Cabot Tradition of the Science of Witchcraft and the Witches' League for Public Awareness to defend the civil rights of witches everywhere. She lives in Salem, where she owned a shop. Cabot claims to be related to the prominent Boston Brahmin Cabot family.
🧙♀️Read a book set in Massachusetts The Witching Place: A Fatal Folio
15. Agnes Sampson
Agnes Sampson was a Scottish healer and purported witch. Also known as the "Wise Wife of Keith". Sampson was involved in the North Berwick witch trials in the late sixteenth century. She was considered to have healing powers and acted as a midwife. Agnes Sampson was accused and arrested along with others, and questioned regarding her role in the storm raising. She was put to torture and confessed and her body was shaved to reveal a "privy mark" or witches' mark.
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character shaves Ten Trends to Seduce Your Bestfriend
RaeRae wrote: "Completed 12/28/2023
11/15
1. Morgan Le Fay
Morgan le Fay is a powerful enchantress from the legend of King Arthur, in which most often she and he are siblings. Early appearances of Morgan have he..."
RaeRae can you please link the books and authors by clicking add book and add author
11/15
1. Morgan Le Fay
Morgan le Fay is a powerful enchantress from the legend of King Arthur, in which most often she and he are siblings. Early appearances of Morgan have he..."
RaeRae can you please link the books and authors by clicking add book and add author


Start: October 1, 2023
End: December 31, 2023
Level 1: 5- 10 Tasks
You may use each task once.
✔1. Morgan Le Fay
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is powerful (your interpretation). Frost Burned - Patricia Briggs 🧡🖤🧡🖤 10/7/23
2. Aradia
🧙♀️Read a book about Wicca or read a book with a character who is Roman Catholic or read a book where the authors initials can be found in PAGAN.
3. Marie Laveau
🧙♀️Read a book set in New Orleans or read a book where a character practices voodoo or read a book where a character's wish comes true (tell us what the wish was).
✔4. Mother Shipton
🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is a mother. The Golden Cage - Camilla Läckberg 🧡🖤🧡🖤 10/2/23
✔5. La Voisin
🧙♀️ Read a book where someone is murdered. The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein - Kiersten White 🧡🖤🧡🖤 10/7/23
✔6. Alice Kyteler
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is a servant. Cinder - Marissa Meyer 🧡🖤🧡🖤 10/2/23
✔7. Rebecca Nurse
🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is well respected. Dance of Thieves - Mary E. Pearson ❤💚❤💚 12/2/23
✔8. Tituba
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is imprisoned. Deck Z: The Titanic: Unsinkable. Undead. - Chris Pauls ❤💚❤ 12/6/23
9. Moll Dyer
🧙♀️Read a book with an object made from stone on the cover (Show cover) or set in Maryland or where a character is chased by someone or something. (Tell us briefly who and what was chasing them).
10. Malin Matsdotter
🧙♀️ Read a book set in Sweden or where a character was burned to death or that a child runs away from home.
11. Isobel Gowdie
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is a fairy or that a character who is a devil (your interpretation) or a book that is sixth in a series.
12. Dion Fortune
🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is a magician or with a light on the cover (Show cover) or that the authors initials can be found in OCCULT.
13. Merga Bien
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is pregnant or read a book set in Germany or read a book that the first letter of thelocation of the book can be found in FULDA.
14. Laurie Cabot
🧙♀️Read a book set in Massachusetts or read a book with a character who is a founder of something (Ex a business, a league) or where the MC's initials can be found in WITCHCRAFT.
15. Agnes Sampson
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character shaves or set in Scotland or with a character who is tortured

Calling all witches
Duration October 1, 2023- December 31, 2023
Level 1: 5- 10 Tasks
6/5-10
TASKS
1. Morgan Le Fay
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is powerful (your interpretation) or read a book where a character texts someone or read a book about King Arthur.
2. Aradia
🧙♀️Read a book about Wicca or read a book with a character who is Roman Catholic or read a book where the authors initials can be found in PAGAN.
3. Marie Laveau
🧙♀️Read a book set in New Orleans or read a book where a character practices voodoo or read a book where a character's wish comes true (tell us what the wish was).
4. Mother Shipton
🧙♀️Read a book set in England or read a book where a character fails a test or read a book with a character who is a mother.
5. La Voisin
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character practices black magic or read a book where someone is murdered or a book set in France. - Nāve mākoņos by Agatha Christie 26.10.23.
6. Alice Kyteler
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is beaten or with a character who is a servant or set in Ireland.
7. Rebecca Nurse
🧙♀️Read a book where a character is a nurse or with a character called Rebecca, Mary or Sarah, or with a character who is well respected. - Belly Up by Stuart Gibbs 23.10.23.
8. Tituba
🧙♀️ Read a book( fiction or nonfiction) about the Salem witch trials or where a character is imprisoned or with a character who is Native American.
9. Moll Dyer
🧙♀️Read a book with an object made from stone on the cover (Show cover) or set in Maryland or where a character is chased by someone or something. (Tell us briefly who and what was chasing them). - Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton 25.11.23. Main character was chased by car and stalked.
10. Malin Matsdotter
🧙♀️ Read a book set in Sweden or where a character was burned to death or that a child runs away from home. - The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter 29.12.23.
11. Isobel Gowdie
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is a fairy or that a character who is a devil (your interpretation) or a book that is sixth in a series. - Hunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton 23.12.23.
12. Dion Fortune
🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is a magician or with a light on the cover (Show cover) or that the authors initials can be found in OCCULT.
13. Merga Bien
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is pregnant or read a book set in Germany or read a book that the first letter of thelocation of the book can be found in FULDA.
14. Laurie Cabot
🧙♀️Read a book set in Massachusetts or read a book with a character who is a founder of something (Ex a business, a league) or where the MC's initials can be found in WITCHCRAFT.
15. Agnes Sampson
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character shaves or set in Scotland or with a character who is tortured. - City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab 17.11.23.

Calling all witches
Duration October 1, 2023- December 31, 2023
Level 1: 5- 10 Tasks
You may use each task once.
TASKS: 6
✅1. Morgan Le Fay
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is powerful (your interpretation) or read a book where a character texts someone or read a book about King Arthur.
🧡Two Truths and a Lyle - DJ Jamison, 10/4/23
✅2. Aradia
🧙♀️Read a book about Wicca or read a book with a character who is Roman Catholic or read a book where the authors initials can be found in PAGAN.
🧡Get Frosted - Amy Aislin, 12/30/23
✅3. Marie Laveau
🧙♀️Read a book set in New Orleans or read a book where a character practices voodoo or read a book where a character's wish comes true (tell us what the wish was).
🧡Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun - Jonny Garza Villa, 11/9/23 -- to go to school in Loa Angeles
✅4. Mother Shipton
🧙♀️Read a book set in England or read a book where a character fails a test or read a book with a character who is a mother.
🧡Heartstopper: Volume Five - Alice Oseman, 12/28/23
5. La Voisin
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character practices black magic or read a book where someone is murdered or a book set in France.
6. Alice Kyteler
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is beaten or with a character who is a servant or set in Ireland.
7. Rebecca Nurse
🧙♀️Read a book where a character is a nurse or with a character called Rebecca, Mary or Sarah, or with a character who is well respected.
8. Tituba
🧙♀️ Read a book( fiction or nonfiction) about the Salem witch trials or where a character is imprisoned or with a character who is Native American.
9. Moll Dyer
🧙♀️Read a book with an object made from stone on the cover (Show cover) or set in Maryland or where a character is chased by someone or something. (Tell us briefly who and what was chasing them).
10. Malin Matsdotter
🧙♀️ Read a book set in Sweden or where a character was burned to death or that a child runs away from home.
11. Isobel Gowdie
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is a fairy or that a character who is a devil (your interpretation) or a book that is sixth in a series.
12. Dion Fortune
🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is a magician or with a light on the cover (Show cover) or that the authors initials can be found in OCCULT.
✅13. Merga Bien
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is pregnant or read a book set in Germany or read a book that the first letter of thelocation of the book can be found in FULDA.
🧡Fangirl, Vol. 2: The Manga - Rainbow Rowell, 11/18/23 -- United States
✅14. Laurie Cabot
🧙♀️Read a book set in Massachusetts or read a book with a character who is a founder of something (Ex a business, a league) or where the MC's initials can be found in WITCHCRAFT.
🧡Fangirl, Vol. 3: The Manga - Rainbow Rowell, 11/28/23 -- Cath Avery
15. Agnes Sampson
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character shaves or set in Scotland or with a character who is tortured.
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Calling All Witches
Duration: October 1, 2023- 12/31/2023
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Level 1: 5- 10 Tasks
Level 2 11-15 Tasks
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As Halloween draws near the witches come out to play so what better challenge than learning about some of the witches of the past.
TASKS
1. Morgan Le Fay
Morgan le Fay is a powerful enchantress from the legend of King Arthur, in which most often she and he are siblings. Early appearances of Morgan have her role as a goddess, a fay, a witch, or a sorceress, generally benevolent and connected to Arthur as his magical savior and protector. Her prominence increased developed over time, as did her moral ambivalence, and in some texts there is an evolutionary transformation of her to an antagonist. A significant aspect in many of Morgan's medieval and later iterations is the unpredictable duality of her nature, with potential for both good and evil.
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is powerful (your interpretation) or read a book where a character texts someone or read a book about King Arthur.
2. Aradia
Aradia is one of the principal figures in the American folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland's 1899 work Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, which he believed to be a genuine religious text used by a group of pagan witches in Tuscany, a claim that has subsequently been disputed. In Leland's Gospel, Aradia is portrayed as a messiah who was sent to Earth in order to teach the oppressed peasants how to perform witchcraft to use against the Roman Catholic Church and the upper classes. Since the publication Aradia has become "arguably one of the central figures of the modern pagan witchcraft revival" and as such has featured in various forms of Neopaganism, including Wicca and Stregheria, as an actual deity.
🧙♀️Read a book about Wicca or read a book with a character who is Roman Catholic or read a book where the authors initials can be found in PAGAN.
3. Marie Laveau
Marie Catherine Laveau was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, herbalist and midwife who was renowned in New Orleans. She excelled at obtaining inside information on her wealthy patrons at the beauty parlor by listening to ladies gossiping, or from their servants whom she either paid or cured of mysterious ailments. She used this information during her Voodoo consultations with wealthy Orleanian women to enhance her image as a clairvoyant; and used this intel to give them practical advice. She also made money by selling her clients gris gris as charms to help their wishes come true.
🧙♀️Read a book set in New Orleans or read a book where a character practices voodoo or read a book where a character's wish comes true (tell us what the wish was).
4. Mother Shipton
Ursula Southeil popularly known as Mother Shipton, was an English soothsayer and prophetess according to English folklore. She is associated with folklore involving the origin of the Rollright Stones of Oxfordshire, reportedly a king and his men transformed to stone after failing her test.
🧙♀️Read a book set in England or read a book where a character fails a test or read a book with a character who is a mother.
5. La Voisin
Catherine Monvoisin, was a French fortune teller, commissioned poisoner, and professional provider of alleged sorcery. She was the head of a network of fortune tellers in Paris providing poison, aphrodisiacs, abortion, purported magical services and the arranging of black masses, with clients among the aristocracy, and became the central figure in the famous affaire des poisons. Her purported organization of commissioned black magic and poison murder was suspected to have killed 1,000 people, but it is believed that upwards of 2,500 people might have been murdered.
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character practices black magic or read a book where someone is murdered or a book set in France.
6. Alice Kyteler
Dame Alice Kyteler was the first recorded person condemned for witchcraft in Ireland. She fled the country to either England or Flanders, and there is no record of her after her escape from persecution. Kyteler had 4 husbands and the crimes against her were denying Christ, asking for advice and sacrificing animals to demons, holding covens and practicing black magic. Plus it was thought she killed and bewitched her husbands. Her servant Petronilla de Meath was flogged and burned to death at the stake after being tortured and confessing to the heretical crimes she, Kyteler, and Kyteler's followers were alleged to have committed.
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is beaten or with a character who is a servant or set in Ireland.
7. Rebecca Nurse
Rebecca Nurse was a woman who was accused of witchcraft and executed by hanging in New England during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. She was fully exonerated fewer than twenty years later. She was the wife of Francis Nurse, and had several children. Rebecca was a well-respected member of the community. She was tried and convicted in the spring and summer of 1692 and executed on July 19. Her married sisters Mary Eastey and Sarah Cloyce were also accused. Mary was convicted and executed, but Sarah managed to survive. (maybe she really was a witch).
🧙♀️Read a book where a character is a nurse or with a character called Rebecca, Mary or Sarah, or with a character who is well respected.
8. Tituba
Tituba was a Native American enslaved woman who was one of the first to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials of 1692–1693. She was owned by colonial Massachusetts Samuel Parris, the minister of Salem Village. She was pivotal in the trials because she confessed to witchcraft when examined by the authorities, giving credence to the accusations. She accused the two other women, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne, of the same crime. She was imprisoned for over a year but never went to trial. It is unknown what happened to her after the case against her was dismissed by a grand jury in May 1693.
🧙♀️ Read a book( fiction or nonfiction) about the Salem witch trials or where a character is imprisoned or with a character who is Native American.
9. Moll Dyer
Moll Dyer is the name of a legendary 17th-century resident of Leonardtown, Maryland, who is said to have been accused of witchcraft and chased out of her home by the local townsfolk on a winter night. Her body was allegedly found a few days later, partially frozen to a large stone.
🧙♀️Read a book with an object made from stone on the cover (Show cover) or set in Maryland or where a character is chased by someone or something. (Tell us briefly who and what was chasing them).
10. Malin Matsdotter
Malin Matsdotter was an alleged Swedish witch. She was one of a few people in Sweden confirmed to have been executed by burning for witchcraft, and the only one to be executed by this method during the famous witch hunt Det Stora oväsendet ('The Great Noise') during 1668–1676, which ended with her execution. In 1668, her husband was executed for having intercourse with a cow. He had been reported by their 13-year-old daughter Anna, after she and her sister had been brought home after running away to escape being beaten by their father, then by their mother at their father's command.
🧙♀️ Read a book set in Sweden or where a character was burned to death or that a child runs away from home.
11. Isobel Gowdie
Isobel Gowdie was a Scottish woman who confessed to witchcraft at Auldearn near Nairn during 1662. Her detailed testimony, apparently achieved without the use of violent torture, provides one of the most comprehensive insights into European witchcraft folklore at the end of the era of witch-hunts. The four confessions she made over a period of six weeks include details of charms and rhymes, claims she was a member of a coven in the service of the Devil and that she met with the fairy queen and king. Lurid information concerning carnal dealings with the Devil were also provided.
🧙♀️ Read a book with a character who is a fairy or that a character who is a devil (your interpretation) or a book that is sixth in a series.
12. Dion Fortune
Dion Fortune was a British occultist, ceremonial magician, novelist and author. She was a co-founder of the Fraternity of the Inner Light, an occult organization that promoted philosophies which she claimed had been taught to her by spiritual entities known as the Ascended Masters.
🧙♀️Read a book with a character who is a magician or with a light on the cover (Show cover) or that the authors initials can be found in OCCULT.
13. Merga Bien
Merga Bien was a German woman convicted of witchcraft and one of the most famous of the victims in the Fulda witch trials in 1603–05. Merga was arrested and put in jail. Her husband protested before the Reichskammergericht in Speyer and pointed out that she was pregnant. In jail, she was forced to confess to the murder of her second husband and her children with him and one member of the family of her husband's employers, and that she had taken part in a sabbath of Satan. Her pregnancy was considered an aggravating circumstance; she and her husband had no children although they had been married for fourteen years. She was forced to confess that her current pregnancy was the result of intercourse with the Devil. Bien was convicted of witchcraft and burnt alive at the stake in Fulda in late 1603.
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character is pregnant or read a book set in Germany or read a book that the first letter of thelocation of the book can be found in FULDA.
14. Laurie Cabot
Laurie Cabot is an American Witchcraft high priestess, and the author of several books. She founded the Cabot Tradition of the Science of Witchcraft and the Witches' League for Public Awareness to defend the civil rights of witches everywhere. She lives in Salem, where she owned a shop. Cabot claims to be related to the prominent Boston Brahmin Cabot family.
🧙♀️Read a book set in Massachusetts or read a book with a character who is a founder of something (Ex a business, a league) or where the MC's initials can be found in WITCHCRAFT.
15. Agnes Sampson
Agnes Sampson was a Scottish healer and purported witch. Also known as the "Wise Wife of Keith". Sampson was involved in the North Berwick witch trials in the late sixteenth century. She was considered to have healing powers and acted as a midwife. Agnes Sampson was accused and arrested along with others, and questioned regarding her role in the storm raising. She was put to torture and confessed and her body was shaved to reveal a "privy mark" or witches' mark.
🧙♀️ Read a book where a character shaves or set in Scotland or with a character who is tortured.
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