A Witches Natural History by Giles Watson WHOLESALE-HIDE or Old Joan as she

or Old Joan as she is known

or were used by ill-doers to gain the powers of witchcraft itself

stories of outsiders reflected in a mirror darkly

from Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle to Richard Dawkins’s The Ancestor’s Tale

prosperity and success

A Witches Natural History by Giles Watson WHOLESALE-HIDE or Old Joan as sheAuthor: Giles Watson Originally published as a series of essays in The Cauldron, is a meditation on the relationship between folklore and nature. The worlds dogmatic religions all have their devotional texts, and biological science, too, has its own rationalistic equivalents, from Darwins Voyage of the Beagle to Richard Dawkinss The Ancestors Tale. Natural historians have written their works of devotion to the works of nature: a genre which has been