WITCHES & FOLKLORE Ideas!!!
✧ "Don't burn a witch at midnight. Everyone knows this. No one remembers why anymore. That's the problem."
✧ The coven doesn't cast spells. They just remember things. They've been remembering things for four hundred years. Memory, it turns out, is the most dangerous magic there is.
✧ "She left a circle of salt around the house every night for sixty years. Her daughter thought it was superstition. Her daughter stopped doing it. That was three years ago. The daughter doesn't sleep anymore."
✧ The herbs hanging in the window aren't decorative. They're functional. They've been functional for a long time. Whatever they're keeping out has been trying to get in for just as long.
✧ There are no witches in this town. There haven't been for two hundred years. The town made sure of that. The town is very proud of this. The town should ask itself why the crops keep growing anyway.
✧ She knows three hundred remedies, four hundred warnings, and one thing she will never tell anyone. She learned it from her grandmother. Her grandmother learned it from the thing in the woods. The thing asked for something in return. The women of this family have been paying it ever since.
✧ The folk song has forty verses. Only twelve are ever sung. The other twenty-eight exist. They've always existed. Every woman in the village knows them. No one sings them. Not anymore. Not since what happened last time someone sang them all the way through.
