"Colder than the nipple on a witch's tit!" 11
"Berkshire, perverse [...] moldering witch
country" 28
"the Witchcraft Act's more than 200 years old" 33
"Captain Blicero's witch
paranoia" 95
"It is she who, at some indefinite future moment, must push the Witch into the Oven intended for Gottfried." 96
"No matter what flesh was there to appease the Witch, [...] He doesn't even know the Witch" 98
Mrs. Quoad: "'Since he passed away I've had to become all but an outright witch, in pure self-defense." 115
"He's surrounded! [...] witches, Satanic operators of all descriptions" 125
Hansel and Gretel, 174
"Slothrop goes flicking witch hazel off his hands" 183
"They know in London how to draw pentacles [...] and cry
conjurations" 217
"Her face is as pale as her hair. A rain-witch." 221
"[the indole crowd] see themselves at the end of a long European dialectic, generations of blighted grain, ergotism, witches on broomsticks, community orgies, cantons lost up there in folds of mountain" 261
"A pretty young witch straddling an A4. [...] 'Are you a real witch?'
'I think I have tendencies. Have you been up to the Brocken yet? [...] I've been up there every Walpurgisnacht since I had my first period." 293
"'You are a witch.'" 294
"Here are Slothrop and the apprentice witch Geli Tripping, standing up on top of the Brocken, the very plexus of German evil" 329
Amy Sprue: "one genuine Salem Witch" 329
"Amy Sprue was not, like young skipping Dorothy's antagonist, a mean witch." 329
"Witches were certainly not getting a fair shake in the thirties. They were depicted as hags who called you dearie, not exactly a wholesome lot. The movies had not prepared him for this Teutonic version here. Your kraut witch, for example, has six toes on each foot and no hair at all on her cunt" 330
that famous S-curve where maniacs in white helmets and dark goggles once witched their wind-faired machinery around the banked brick in shrieking drifts" 380
"The plaster witch, wire mesh visible at her breasts and haunches, leans near the oven" 398
"Naughty 'n' noisy,
and very Walpurgisnacht" 463
"Little Geli Tripping. The one who thinks she's a witch." 500
"a rush of girls, shivering, aroused, beruffled, to witch St. John Bladdery away under cover of pretty-pastel synthetics and amorous squeals" 598
"it may have been the bad witch-leery auras around Budapest that got the birth of Byron reassigned" 647
"She has left off tending her herd of toads on the witches' hillsides, and has passed her white wand to another apprentice." 717
"full of too many spells, witch-rivalries, coven politics...she knows that's not what magic is about. The Hexes-Stadt [...] has turned into just another capital [...]--no practicing witches left [...] There are the two distinct sorts of witch, and Geli is the World-choosing sort." 718
"[Blicero's] myopic witch's eyes, through the thick lenses" 724
"here is where and when the young witch finds Vaslav Tchitcherine at last." 734
"It is the stationary witch trying to hold her candy house against the host of nibblers out there in the dark." 748
