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...there too, the "tricksy spirit" of his bidding, a native boy named Filipino, for whom "freedom" would be a chance to explore the fascinating vistas he has glimpsed in old copies of LIFE and Vanity Fair. And the new Prospero has his Caliban, the "freckled whelp" of the island witch, a half-breed named Mario, for whom freedom would mean a chance to murder his master and rape the master's daughter...
...WITCH DIGGERS (441 pp.) Jessamyn West Harcourt, Brace...
...Cate herself in trying to explain this erratic behavior, and as determined as a Hollywood screenwriter in making melodrama out of it. Cate winds up marrying a prissy neighbor boy whom she despises; jilted Lover Christie goes to his death in a blazing barn. Meanwhile, two crazy inmates (the witch diggers), convinced that "the truth" is buried somewhere in the earth, dig tirelessly away on the poor-farm grounds...
...play, which has appeared on Broadway, concerns a witch-boy who is allowed to become a mortal if his lover will remain faithful to him for a year...
...Druten perfectly engineers the leap into fantasy. With their shop talk and trade secrets, his witches and warlocks are as conceivable as they are entertaining, and his heroine, both before & after, makes a lively minx. Gradually, however, the social and business life of witches is dulled by repetition; eventually the odd charm of boy-meets-witch slumps into the old hat of boy-finds-girl. Bell, Book and Candle lacks the resourceful twists that kept a fantasy like Blithe Spirit gay to the end; it moves in the opposite-and less rewarding-direction of a fantasy like Lady into...