The Rabbi and the Twenty-Nine Witches (Hardcover)

from lquilter

Witches haunt a town, a wise old rabbi comes up with a solution, and tricks the witches, who shrink into nothingness. I liked some of the small touches: The rabbi losing track of his plan when the banquet of food is set up, and the touch of compassion -- all the townsmen said it was a fate they w...

from csloan

This book is about twenty nine witches that come out on the full moon and scare everyone in the village. So the Rabbi realizes that the witches do not come out if it is raining. So he comes up with a plan to trick them to come out into the rain. He ask the brave men of the community to help him a...

from AbigailAdams26

Originally published in 1976, and just reprinted by Marshall Cavendish this year, Marilyn Hirsh's The Rabbi and the Twenty-Nine Witches is taken from the Talmud, and concerns an ordinary village beset by extraordinary witches. Driven indoors every full moon by "twenty-nine of the meanest, scaries...