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Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

Rivka Galchen brings a surprising sense of humor to the grim topic of 17th-century witchcraft accusations.

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Review of ‘Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch’

Did you know that the mother of Johannes Kepler, the 17th-century German scientist best known for his laws of planetary motion, was accused of being a witch? Rivka Galchen’s Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is the fictionalized story of Katharina Kepler, who was accused of this crime at the same time her son…

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