D Is FOR DUTCHThames Williamson Harcourt, Brace ($2).
In the fat Pennsylvania "Dutch" farming country, around Reading; Lancaster and Bethlehem, passing motorists often goggle at barns with three white circles painted on their sides, wonder what they are for. The three circles, which often have other cabalistic signs inside them, are a form of Pennsylvania Dutch insurance to ward off the evil eye from the cattle within. Like other farming communities, this rich and peaceful land has its dark traditions, its hexerei (witchcraft). Energetic Thames Williamson, author of four dramatic novels about four...
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