β Scribed by Leiber, Fritz
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What if half the world's population (the female half) practiced witchcraft and kept it a secret from men?Norman Saylor, a professor of ethnology, discovers his wife Tansy has put his research in the field of "Negro Conjure Magic" into practice for the sake of protecting him from other spell-casting faculty wives who wish to further their own husbands careers. A man of science, Norman has only an academic interest in the subject of magic and superstition and forces Tansy to cease all her workings and to burn all her charms. As soon as Norman burns the last charm, things start to fall apart. He has a run-in with a former student, his student-secretary accuses him of having seduced her, and he is passed over for a promotion that had seemed certain.Norman begins to have more than his fair share of small accidents: cutting himself while shaving, stepping on carpet tacks, cutting his hand with a letter opener, and more. He begins to imagine that there is a dark presence exploiting...
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**A professor discourages his wifeβs witchcraft to disastrous ends in this classic taleβthe basis for three filmsβfrom the Grand Master of Fantasy.** Norman Saylor, a professor of ethnology, discovers that his wife, Tansy, has put his research in the field of βConjure Magicβ into practice for the s