Broom, broom
Leslie Wilson, 2 December 1993
The Virago Book of Witches
edited by Shahrukh Husain.
Virago, 244 pp., £14.99, October 1993,1 85381 562 4 Show More
edited by Shahrukh Husain.
Virago, 244 pp., £14.99, October 1993,
“... and Gretel’ is not included in the Virago collection, but it contains a vital element which Shahrukh Husain doesn’t fully discuss in her introduction, an element which is not in the least muted by the brother’s sanitisation – the witch as bad mother. (The crudest form of this belief is still held by present-day Tories: she is a single parent ... ”
