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Conjure Wife (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)

The Plot

While rummaging through his wife’s belongings one day, Norman Saylor, a professor of sociology at Hempnell College, discovers a cache of occult paraphernalia suggesting that Tansy practices witchcraft. When confronted, Tansy astounds Norman by admitting that all women are witches and that she and the wives of other Hempnell faculty are engaged in a covert war of spell and counterspell against one another to further their husbands’ careers. Although Norman prides himself as being one of the more liberal thinkers on campus, he is mortified that Tansy...

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