“Listen!” John began to read. “Banish from your mind the fairy-tale image of the wizened crone, cackling over her bubbling cauldron as she stirs her noxious brew by the light of the full moon. In our time, the witch – and it may be a man just as well as it may a woman – cannot be told from anyone else you might meet as you go about your business each day, yet the old knowledge survives in her just as it ever has. It might be suggested, in fact, that the witches have always lived among us without feeling any need to make their presence known, for maybe we need them, sometimes, more than they need us…”
The Winter Garden and Other Stories
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