Butter Witch (Torrent Witches Cozy Mysteries Book 1)

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An integral detail here is that her daughter was supposedly cursed, having seen her brother-in-law kill her sister.

Autumn and winter are the best times to look for both of these jelly fungi (and indeed most other jelly fungi), even though they can fruit at any time of the year. Soon, his water was back to normal, and the old witch next door (both in the literal and figurative sense) found her villainous plans thwarted. Some believe it today; still others, the "Mad Mob," are ever-ready to be whipped into potent fury over an "extraordinary popular delusion" (to quote the author Mackay), and are also equally eager to burn whatever heretic, outsider or "witch" they decide, in their madness, is a threat to them and their so-invigorating way of life. Once the wood is infected, it tends to put out a bloom after each heavy rain, which is likely to keep a family paranoid of evil spirits if they don’t replace that beam.Several large orange jelly fungus (Dacrymyces palmatus) growing out of the cut end of a downed hemlock log.

There are rumors aplenty about our family, and the way our decrepit mansion looms over the town certainly doesn’t help, nor do the various shenanigans/possible crimes Aunt Cass has pulled over the years. Keeping the fire lit overnight, so that you didn’t have to start from scratch the next day was also regarded as critical knowledge. That year the talk was again rife on the lips of the townsfolk, about the older women who had been accused in this second wave of persecution to drive out the Devil. I wasn't overly keen on this to be honest but it picked up reasonably in the last quarter, hence three stars. It also provided a handy guide on how to hunt them… which had bloody effects even a century later in Salem.A tailor by the name of Alexander Montgomery and his wife Elizabeth found that they were unable to make butter from the milk they took from their only cow. When Harlow Torrent, part-time journalist and full-time Slip witch stumbles upon a dead body, frozen and drained of blood, she’s pulled into a murder mystery. This isn't going to be pushing my Robert Frost books off the shelf, but for what it is, it's awesome.