The Prevalence of Witches by Aubrey Menen

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The Prevalence of Witches by Aubrey Menen Jan 7, 2022 11:54:26 GMT

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Hardcover, 271 pages

Published 1948 by Scribner's

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This story is set in a backward district of India where witchcraft thrives. The efforts of the political agent and the education officer, aided by a phoney occidential "swami", to secure true justice for a village headman on a charge of murder is the basis for this book.

See: aubreymenen.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-taste-of-aubrey-menen-prevalence-of.html

And if e'er you should come down to the village or the town, With the cold rain for your garland, and the wind for your renown, You will stand upon the thresholds with a face of dumb desire, Nor be known by any fire. What would you see in your proud land, Petrarch, If you came back again to Italy, And in the Garden of the Medici Could listen to the nightingale or lark And dream of Laura in the fragrent dark?

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