Women Of Evil by Wenzell Brown

A confidential report on woman who in another age, would have been burned at the stake as witches.

Women of evil.

Too often, men have become involved with women who possessed an uncanny skill for recognizing and exploiting their weaknesses, submerged violences and hidden frustrations. Almost without exception, such women have a curious, primitive magnetism that draws large numbers of men to them. Wherever they go, people have a sense of uneasiness, impending danger or excitement. These women are experts at sexual excitation, stirring up quarrels, stimulating jealousies and spreading slander and rumor.

Are they witches?

Yes, say psychiatrists.

Here is a book which probes into eight such cases- all of them concerning women who repeatedly triggered decent men into adultery, extortion, suicide, assault and, in extreme cases, murder. It all adds up to a penetrating study of women who, in another age, would have been harried or burned at the stake.

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First Line(s)

A Scream in the Night

A piercing scream filled the night.

Tenants of the huge housing foundation in lower Manhattan rushed to their windows to see a naked girl crouched precariously on the sill of a window on the twelfth floor of one of the towering, monolithic buildings.