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Smells like witch spirit: How the ancient world’s scented sorceresses influence ideas about magic today

  • Written by Britta Ager, Assistant Professor of Classics, Arizona State University
imagePerfumes, potions and witches have been entwined for centuries.Frederick Stuart Church/Smithsonian American Art Museum/Wikimedia Commons

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