![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Retold also is the story of Hetty Green, wicked witch of Wall Street, who enjoyed destroying people and who, as a result of her obsession with money, became the richest woman in the world. Implied is the idea that their infirmities were somehow overcome. His first alone is enough to make you a doubter of the rest: in 1887, five elderly Vermonters, crippled and past the age of usefulness, were drugged, stripped naked, frozen for the winter in a big wooden box, then revived the following May and fed a hearty meal. The author declares his stories to be strange but mainly true, though they-re taken from older Vermont collections, archives, libraries, journals, periodicals, and newspapers-and thus are recycled, or even paranormally refurbished, yet Citro tells us that many are seeing print for the first time. Vermont is a region of enchantment for these several dark tales collected by Citro (Shadow Child, 1998, not reviewed) from every county in the state. ![]()
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