The Blue Star

First published: Date unknown
Language: English
Content type: Fiction

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"The Blue Star" by Fletcher Pratt is a fantasy novel first published in 1952. Set in a parallel world where witchcraft has evolved into a science while technology has stalled at an eighteenth-century level, the story follows Lalette Asterhax, a hereditary witch, and Rodvard Bergelin, a clerk recruited by revolutionaries. When Rodvard seduces Lalette to gain her magical talisman—a mind-reading jewel called a blue star—both become pawns in a larger conspiracy. Forced to flee, they embark on adventures that transform them from shallow conspirators into something greater. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ritual magic and grimoires and Witchcraft and folk magic.

Ritual magic and grimoires
Controlled discovery queries from project-gutenberg matched “magic”. Retained metadata contains “talisman” in the description and “Magic” in the subject metadata.
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- “talisman”· in description
- “Magic”· in subject
Witchcraft and folk magic
Controlled discovery queries from project-gutenberg matched “witches”. Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the description and “witches” in the subject metadata.
- “witches”· via Project Gutenberg
- “Witchcraft”· in description
- “witches”· in subject

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Project Gutenberg electronic edition Project Gutenberg metadata does not identify the source print edition.	2018-04-01	Project Gutenberg	English	—	Public domain (USA)	Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab)