Framed around a story of a young apprentice, Biddy, who takes lessons from a famous historical witch, Biddy Early. As the story moves on, Biddy teaches Lindsay the basics of witchcraft while also highlighting the ways witches practice. The story sets up well for the lessons. There is also inclusion on how witches were persecuted. While set in a specific time period, the story is also timeless as explanations include modern practices. A fantastic introduction on Witchcraft in a lovely graphic novel format. Add to your shelves.

cute, sweet, light-hearted. i loved the art, but i wish it was a little longer, and focused on several different historical witches, rather than just one.

The illustrations are gorgeous. It is a good book to read for more information on witchcraft throughout Europe. The way fiction and nonfiction were bind together worked perfectly.

This graphic novel is such a gem! It blends the story of Biddy Early, an iconic Irish witch, with the rich history of witchcraft in the most magical way, plus the illustrations are absolutely stunning. Perfect for anyone looking to dive into a cozy read this fall / winter.

Stunning artwork! The history of witchcraft is something I've been interested in for a long time, so this book was a very welcome addition to my digital library. Can only recommend.

This short little graphic novel was both a history story and a gentle introduction to witchcraft. It's a quick read, and contains both interesting historical facts as well as basic information on magical items, as well as lore. Although I didn't find it un-put-downable, I thought the art was nicely done, and the text to be well written, interesting, and informative. There were a couple places where I thought I'd missed a page and went back to see that I hadn't—which made me feel like there were parts of the story that were missing (a major example would be how Biddy's trial never came about). My only other complaint was that one particular illustration did not align well with the text, as the words described a tool "with a white handle" which clearly had a wooden handle in the illustration. For these few complaints I've chosen to rate it 3.75 stars, but I would definitely pick up another Graphic title by this team. Thank you to #NetGalley, Quarto Publishing Group/Leaping Hare Press, Lindsay Squire and Lisa Salsi for providing the ARC copy of #WitchcraftAGraphicHistory in return for an honest review!

The graphic novel Witchcraft is beautifully illustrated. It’s a fun and easy read. thought it was cute and it did hold basic information.

The fictionalized history of Biddy Early with a young apprentice, you get a basic understanding of her life.
It gets a bit odd when there is a few pages of other famous “witches” and witch trials. Including ones that happened after Biddy’s lifetime.

I think if the title conveyed this book as the store of Biddy Early and stuck to that it would have made more sense.

I am unlikely to get to this book anytime soon unfortunately. The idea behind it though is fabulous and hope to be in the mood soon. When and if that happens keep an eye out for an update on my review pages.

Want to learn more about the different kinds of witches and the different ways they practice magic? This is a good book to learn about witches. Even though this book does have a small story about one of the witches, it also teaches you about the different kinds of witches and how they practiced their magic as well as how they where treated. If you are an author who writes about witches or want to write about witches, this would be a great resource to add to your collection, and I loved the way the whole book was set up.

The art style is beautiful. I really loved every single picture and moment between Biddy and Lindsay. I will say there some of the information pushes Wiccan narrative and there are other beliefs that don’t follow all of those rules

I enjoy the illustration. Sometimes it's hard for me to read history so it was very nice and really helped the story

⭐️⭐️⭐️ Liked it, fun while I was reading it
This is sort of little bit of this and a little bit of that. We get the story of historic witch, Biddy Early, a little bit about herbs and practices, and lastly, a fictional young girl who is fascinated by Biddy and wants to learn from and become her apprentice. It was fun but also trying to do too much.

I did love the artwork, very lush, green and felt very appropriate for the story.

Thank you to Quarto Publishing Group, NetGalley, and author Lindsay Squire, for providing me with a digital ARC copy of this graphic novel in exchange for an honest review. Witchcraft: A Graphic History is out October 15, 2024.

Thank you Netgalley for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

The story of Biddy is very interesting and given how this story progressed, it scratched the surface. If someone wanting to get into the basics of witchcraft, this is a good starter book.

However some of it does need to be taken lightly for the story involving Biddy as the author states that the story portraying her is in the author's perception on how her younger self would be interacting with Biddy.

Additionally, there were moments where text did not line up in the green box dedicated for it and made it difficult to read and removes the immersion.

I had a few issues downloading this book at first. Once I started to read and I completely enthralled. The illustrations were beautiful and the story line was amazing. I can't wait to purchase this for our library!

First of all, a big thanks to Lindsay Squire and Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read this arc.

3 stars :)

The pictures were genuinely the most detailed and cutest drawings that I've ever seen in a book, and you can tell that whoever did them put a lot of work into them. The concept was also very interesting and was something I was curious about before as well, so it was really nice to read about it and I don't think I've seen this idea anywhere else.
This is a pretty unusual book for me, since I normally read romantasy, but I'm happy to say I liked it and it has encouraged me to try other genres.
I wouldn't say I didn't like it, but I didn't prefer the speech bubbles, because the way of reading them was harder but that's just my preference and I think many would like that style.

Thank you again :)

Hmmm… Not the greatest graphic novel, this conveys the life and times of Biddy Early, a 'witch' in County Clare, Ireland. This dramatises her situation by giving her a fan – a girl whose uncle hates the idea of witchcraft and all those shenanigans, and whose aunt is poorly, with all doctor-prescribed medicine failing her. She practically becomes an apprentice, and the whole thing is interspersed with our modern-day author detailing everything we'd need to know, from the types of fairy folk Biddy might have had commune with, to the tools of her trade – and the tallies of dead after major witch-hunts the world over.

The problems are that these pages are just illuminated lists – illustrated encyclopaedia pages, with the paragraphs of caption in a most awkward reading order – and the Early story can be – and is – summarised very quickly. Oh, and the title is clearly wrong. Rather than "a graphic history" it's more of "a graphic example, with modern context", with the modern authorial voice (not the Biddy character, as some have claimed) here to tell us about wicca, hedge witches et al. It is, then, as much of a mish-mash as, say, a bunch of herbs thrown together in the knowledge they can do no harm. Even the credits pages are a confusing melange where it's not easy to work out who to say did what. But then, as nobody comes out of this particularly well, that's not really an issue. A weak effort.

The illustrations and history pair impeccably well. The history was accurate and respectful of the past. This will be a perfect gift for any witchy person in your life.

Witchcraft: A Graphic History takes us to the world of Biddy Early, a witch who lived during the early 19th century in Ireland. The book also looks at various aspects of witchcraft.

The artwork in this graphic novel is lovely. The pictures are expertly done and really aid the telling of the story.

This graphic novel is a mix of both fiction and non-fiction. One of the characters is a self-insert of the author for the narrative. It’s a neat idea. I do feel the story may have progressed more seamlessly had she not gone that route however. The fictionalised Lindsey doesn't add anything to the plot and the side story she brings detracts from the facts of Biddy's life and case. I feel we could’ve learned more of the facts had it been done differently.

The information included on witchcraft is very interesting and send to be well researched. The way it’s included in the story is fresh and didn’t disrupt the main storyline.

Overall this is a fun book with beautiful artwork, I just wish we could’ve learned more about Biddy and her trial.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing for giving me the opportunity to review this book.

The art in this book was fascinating and beautiful. I will recommend that readers read the dull description before reading, as the title is misleading. The story follows one witch and is not in fact a complete or diverse history of witchcraft.

I absolutely loved this book. The author definitely did her research and gave great information. I also love that she put herself into the story to move the story along and to show how dangerous it could be to be in contact with an accused witch. Even though Biddy meant no harm and only wanted to help heal those that were sick and in need of medical help that a doctor might not be able to provide the people of the town still saw her as an evil being. The art work is definitely stunning. I love the color contrasts that the artist used. It really helped tie this. book together. I absolutely loved the authors character in this book. She wanted to show that Biddy wasn't evil as everyone thought that she was. I think that the author did a fantastic job putting this book together. I would definitely buy a physical copy of this book and read other works done by this author.