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He snorted softly If he recalled aright, he had been born on a Friday just before ht How did one associate love and beauty and the colors of roses with aupon the lives of others? And surely any color associated with a vampire's life should be the deep dark red of blood

With a shake of his head, Roshan continued reading Saturday was ruled by Saturn, leaning toward longevity, hoo and brown, blue and gray Sunday was, of course, ruled by the sun, bringing healing and spirituality, strength and protection Sunday's colors were benevolent— gold and orange, peach and yellow

He thu the naend Hecate, the Green Goddess of witches Hecate orshipped at the dark of the ether It was said that she had three heads— horse, serpent, and dog— and thus she was able to see in three directions at once

Morgan Le Fey, said to be a student of Merlin the ician Nimue, also known as the Lady of the Lake Circe, who lived on a oddess of snakes Then there was a fifteenth-century Yorkshire witch known as Mother Shipton It was said she possessed the power to heal and cast spells He thought it interesting that she had also been a seer who had seen modern-day inventions such as airplanes and cars Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII, had been suspected of being a witch because she had a sixth finger on one hand

Caught up in the subject, he read further Elisabeth Sawyer, who had been known as the Witch of Edhbors' children and on her neighbors' cattle because they refused to buy her broorin, a witch with a broo a witch, she was hanged

Another chapter dealt with spells A sachet bag filled with rosee was believed to be effective in attracting love There was also acharm For this spell, a witch cut twelve pieces of paper into the size of banknotes The paper was then to be put into a box, with thyreen string in thirty-one knots and buried no more than seven inches deep If done properly, the box would contain realup exactly one year later

He read that wood taken from an alder tree was used to suht about that Perhaps he could find a witch who could suan's essence, but then, he wanted ht of his oitch woan Even her na the way it felt on his tongue

It was ti the picture he had printed earlier, he left the house

Standing in the backyard, her likeness clutched in his hand, he let the night enfold him, its blackness drawn to the blackness within his soul, hiding hiaze focused on her face as he chanted her nained hih ti him away from the world he knew and closer to hers

In the space of a heartbeat, thought becah a long black tunnel He saw the years falling away, the centuries receding as the modern world passed into the ht ars and rumors of wars, with inventions people in his time had never dreamed of— televisions, computers, compact disc players, microwave ovens, jet planes, cell phones, frozen foods, penicillin, the Toun, and the atomic bomb

The nineteenth century had introduced the world to the stea press, typewriters and telephones, elevators and bicycles, Coca Cola, sewing hteenth century saw the creation of the piano, the steauisher and sextant, submarines and parachutes, and the French Revolution

The seventeenth century gave the world the air pump, the telescope, pocket watches and pressure cookers, Done, and the Salem Witch Trials