"Witchcraft", by Arthur Machen

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This one leaves an awful lot to the imagination. And there are no annotations on this one either. So let's hear your thoughts on the meaning of this one in the comments! I mean, it's obvious enough Custance is employing magic, learned from Mrs. Wise, against Captain Knight, but we don't know exactly what, how potent it is, whether it works or not, etc. etc. It's almost like this is more of a writing prompt than a short story. One that budding authors might take and run with.

I had the darnedest time with the name Custance. I mispronounced it a shockingly large number of times for such a short story! Mostly as Constance. I did my best to correct it in editing when I caught it, but I wouldn't be surprised if one or two slipped through. What a curious name... But it appears it is a real name across the English speaking world, so hopefully I got it right.

The picture used is "The cottage" by ARTOFTHEOLDSCHOOL, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/).

To follow along: https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Ornaments_in_Jade/Witchcraft