![]() Mayhem gradually ensues as magic is used to make birds appear in the classroom, to rain shoes, to curse a classmate into having his words always be true, and other pranks. This launches an internal investigation of the more unpopular students at the school (Nan Pilgrim and Charles Morgan), who are gradually coming to terms with the fact that they are witches. Despite witches being common, witchcraft is illegal and punishable by death by burning, policed by a modern-day Inquisition.Īt Larwood House, a boarding school where many of the children of executed witches are sent, a note claiming "Someone in this class is a witch" is found by a teacher. Witch Week is set in an alternative modern-day Great Britain, identical to our world except for the presence of witchcraft. "The note said: SOMEONE IN THIS CLASS IS A WITCH." ![]() The story begins with a teacher's discovery of an ambiguous note and dilemma whether to take it as a joke. Many people have magical powers ("witches", male or female) but their use is a capital crime and convicted witches are burnt to death. Witch Week is set during the last four days of October 1981 at Larwood House, a boarding school in southern England, in a world parallel and close to ours. ![]() It was the third published of seven Chrestomanci books. Witch Week is a children's fantasy novel and school story by the British writer Diana Wynne Jones, published by Macmillan Children's Books in 1982. ![]()
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