Word: witched
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...much 15th Century as anything." A young man, hearing of a itch hunt in the town, announces to the city's functionaries that he wishes to be hanged. To satisfy their requirements he will even confess to several murders. Things are considerably complicated when he discovers that the witch is an attractive young person and falls in love with...
...sketching trips made by horse, mule and camel across Morocco's stony plains and into the Atlas Mountains. Swathed in a burnoose, Legrand often camped with Berbers, used them as models for such prophets as Joshua and Jeremiah (see cut). Once in his travels, he says, a Berber witch whose advances he repulsed put a spell on his drawing hand, made it swell to the size of a melon. "A native doctor took the spell away," he says. "Allah be praised...
...Test by Witch Doctor. The words of the Curé d'Ars had set young Suzanne training herself to be a missionary. She used family pull for permission to attend lectures at a medical school, where she hid behind a screen so that the other medical students would not know a female was present. She spent two years nursing soldiers in the filth of the Crimean War. Then, still in her early 20s, she met a French missionary bishop on his way back to New Zealand. Suzanne decided that the time had at last come to leave home...
...suspicious Maoris sent their witch doctors time & again to test her, but Suzanne's work always went...
...charm that would never lead you to think that this man had done some of his strongest and most persuasive talking before a series of hostile Congressional committees. He has obviously gotten some rest since his last trip to Cambridge (a flying graduation visit in June, when the Hickenlooper witch-hunt was keeping him under klieg lights and on the front pages); he seemed very much at ease and relaxed this time...