RaveTimes Literary Supplement\"Gibson’s book is a work of restitution and historical reparation, an attempt to give voice to those who have been silenced over the centuries. This is particularly sensitively done in the case of the Native American Tatabe (whom many readers will know as Tituba) during the 1692 Salem witch panic ... Gibson also shows the slipperiness between the persecutor and the persecuted, and how one could shapeshift into the other ... The book is the product of meticulous research, drawing on archival, printed and online sources, and a vast secondary literature, as well as more than thirty years of working on the history of witchcraft...Gibson is careful never to overstate the evidence, but evokes past lives as well as geographical and emotional landscapes with absolute clarity ... And, as Marion Gibson shows, the powerful metaphor of the witch, in all her multifaceted guises, is likely to endure.\
