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Bell Book and Candle

The plot concerns Gillian Holroyd, a young, sultry witch who is interested in pursuing a dalliance with her upstairs neighbor, Shepherd Henderson. Witches supposedly cannot fall in love, but they can excel at pleasures of the flesh, and toward this end Gillian casts a spell on the unsuspecting Henderson on Christmas Eve when he comes downstairs to use her telephone.

Henderson's gaily wrapped gifts to friends and family are forgotten as Gillian's black arts weave their spell around his heart. He is totally bewitched, and falls deeply in love. Gillian finds out that love is potent magic indeed: She, too, falls under its spell.

Once Gillian falls in love, she loses her witch's powers. She is unable to cast spells. Her cat, Pywacket, a witch's familiar companion, deserts her, and her aunt and brother, a witch and warlock respectively, do not quite know how to relate to this new, human, Gillian. Needless to say, the course of true love - with or without supernatural assistance - does not run smoothly.